Topic: Third Party Strategies
If you dislike Republicans.... The Constitution Party actually makes a mockery of the very thing it is named for. Be warned, everyone!by Dale Husband
(liberal)
Monday, May 25, 2009
....you will HATE the Constitution Party (CP)! They make Conservative Republicans look moderate!
The Constitution Party gratefully acknowledges the blessing of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as Creator, Preserver and Ruler of the Universe and of these United States. We hereby appeal to Him for mercy, aid, comfort, guidance and the protection of His Providence as we work to restore and preserve these United States.
This great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been and are afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here.
The goal of the Constitution Party is to restore American jurisprudence to its Biblical foundations and to limit the federal government to its Constitutional boundaries.
The Constitution of these United States provides that "no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States." The Constitution Party supports the original intent of this language. Therefore, the Constitution Party calls on all those who love liberty and value their inherent rights to join with us in the pursuit of these goals and in the restoration of these founding principles.
The U.S. Constitution established a Republic rooted in Biblical law, administered by representatives who are Constitutionally elected by the citizens. In such a Republic all Life, Liberty and Property are protected because law rules.
We affirm the principles of inherent individual rights upon which these United States of America were founded:
That each individual is endowed by his Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are the rights to life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness;
That the freedom to own, use, exchange, control, protect, and freely dispose of property is a natural, necessary and inseparable extension of the individual's unalienable rights;
That the legitimate function of government is to secure these rights through the preservation of domestic tranquility, the maintenance of a strong national defense, and the promotion of equal justice for all;
That history makes clear that left unchecked, it is the nature of government to usurp the liberty of its citizens and eventually become a major violator of the people's rights; and
That, therefore, it is essential to bind government with the chains of the Constitution and carefully divide and jealously limit government powers to those assigned by the consent of the governed.
Are these people serious?! Neither Christianity nor the Bible are mentioned anywhere in the actual Constitution, plus it specifies that "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States". So why would the Preamble of the "Constitution Party" use specific language to exclude all non-Christians? And the whole issue of "original intent" is a smokescreen that can be used to deny freedom and equal rights to people that have gotten or sought such freedom and rights since the Constitution was first established. I would support the Libertarians instead! They are not hypocrites!
As Libertarians, we seek a world of liberty; a world in which all individuals are sovereign over their own lives and no one is forced to sacrifice his or her values for the benefit of others.
We believe that respect for individual rights is the essential precondition for a free and prosperous world, that force and fraud must be banished from human relationships, and that only through freedom can peace and prosperity be realized.
Consequently, we defend each person's right to engage in any activity that is peaceful and honest, and welcome the diversity that freedom brings. The world we seek to build is one where individuals are free to follow their own dreams in their own ways, without interference from government or any authoritarian power.
In the following pages we have set forth our basic principles and enumerated various policy stands derived from those principles.
These specific policies are not our goal, however. Our goal is nothing more nor less than a world set free in our lifetime, and it is to this end that we take these stands.
That's much better!
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Nice article Dale, your assement of the CP is pretty spot on. The CP is just the Religious Right on steroids with one of the few differences being that the CP is against the Patriot Act (while at the same time their social policy is more government jackbooting). and supporting Protectionist economic policies. At the very least the Republicans don't want to put homosexuals in jail:
Larry: The point the author is making is not that you cannot, but that he disagrees with or despises either using religious values or those values themselves (either view is absolutely his right.)
LibertarianBlue: Nowhere in the link or anywhere else on the CP platform is there ANYTHING advocating the jailing of homosexuals for being homosexual.
I am a Christian, and used to be a member of the CP, but left their rolls about two years ago - the platform attracted me for a time, and there were isolated things about it I disagreed with even then, like the Panama thing and some other social policies; but after a couple years I reregistered Independent... I perceived in the CP a tad too much, "down your throat," than I could support and not enough, "live and let live."
The point the author is making is not that you cannot, but that he disagrees with or despises either using religious values or those values themselves
Correct. I think you should be allowed to privately practice any religion you wish, but you make any religion, or even any anti-religious philosophy for that matter, official dogma and you might as well tear up and discard the Constitution. I would actually be more tolerant of the "Constitution Party" if it were named the "Christian Right Party". Truth in Advertising, people! Is that too much to ask, or is false labeling to be expected from all politicians from now on?
Nowhere in the link or anywhere else on the CP platform is there ANYTHING advocating the jailing of homosexuals for being homosexual.
Again, you are correct. Celibacy is an option for homosexuals. But have you noticed how rarely people actually live up to that option? That's because the sex drive in many persons (and in most other animals) is at least as strong as the urge to eat, If that were not so, we would not reproduce. Asking a gay person to never have sex according to his nature is as absurd and cruel as asking anyone to commit suicide by starvation.
Also, you can be the most hard-core Christian and encourage others to be like you. No problem! Just consider that if your values were so obviously beneficial, nearly everyone would have adopted them freely by now. You would never need government to force them on anyone!
I'm a tad confused, though... on the first hand LibertarianBlue originally hinted/inferred that CP wanted to jail homosexuals. You acknowledged the link and their platform did not say that, but why do you then make the connection to celibacy? Just as there was no connection to the CP wanting to jail homosexuals, there is no written reference of the CP desiring/requiring homosexuals be celibate.
The whole issue of homosexual celibacy as an option would be an entirely different subject on its own, the effort to tie it in to the aforementioned, "CP wants jail for homosexuality," inferrence of LibertarianBlue makes it look like a red herring (unrelated diversion of the discussion.)
Just threw me off, is all, and I was curious about how your mindset made that a logical, "next step," for the discussion.
fedupalready: If you read the actual Biblical passages condemning homosexuality, they specifically condemn "man lying with man, as if with woman". That refers to the specific ACT of homosexual intercourse. But there is no condemnation of celibacy in the Bible. Thus, one may reasonably infer that a homosexual who lives as a celibate may be acceptable in most Bible based religious communities.
What, you expect EVERYTHING to be written down explicitly?
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