Rand Paul speaks to Murray State students
by Ashley Traylor
OCTOBER 26, 2016
Senate voting will take place on election day and Kentucky Senate incumbent Rand Paul is campaigning to receive students’ votes at Murray State.
Students had the opportunity to take a photo with Paul and ask questions at the end of his campaign speech.
Paul focused his speech on protecting the rights of minorities in society. He said one can be a minority based on the color of his or her skin or one’s ideology. Minorities can be evangelical Christians or people who have a specific definition of marriage, but he said we have the right to believe what we want to believe.
He supported his argument with a quote from Martin Luther King Jr.’s letter from the Birmingham City Jail, saying, “An unjust law is when a numerical majority write a law on a minority and don’t make it binding on themselves.”
He said King’s idea is everyone has unalienable rights that our naturally ours.
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