Tea Party pick causes uproar on civil rights

In the article, Tea Party pick causes uproar on civil rights, the Kentucky Senate candidate Rand Paul raises a civil rights controversy. In doing so, he provided Democrats an opportunity to portray him as extreme and renewed concern among Republicans that his views made him vulnerable in a general election. He suggested that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was too broad and should not apply to private businesses, such as luncheonettes. But he issued a statement declareing that he would not repeal the 1964 case, and blamed his opponents for trying to distort his views by saying he favored repeal. He that he supported the sections of the Civil Rights Act that applied to public accommodations but had concerns when it came to its applicability to private business; he raised similar concerns earlier about the Americans with Disabilities Act. He says that he does not support discrimination, but the federal government cannot tell a private business owner who they can and cant serve. I do agree witht this statement, the federal government has no place telling private businesses how to work. However, theis is a dangerous subject to debate while running for office. The Democrats are just trying to distort his views to make him look bad so he cant win.

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