Silverback
2nd August 2005, 10:02
I'm new here in the American View forum and very excited about the impact that this site can make in today's political scene. I am currently running for the General Assembly in New Jersey on the Constitution Party ticket. The following is a recent article from my campaign website (http://www.leoneforassembly.com/prolife_abandon_gop.htm):
The top Republican in the United States Senate has thrown his support in with the pro-death crowd. According to the Associated Press, GOP Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is pushing for government-funded research on human embryos.
Frist believes that the extermination of human beings that are in the earliest stages of their development is crucial for the advancement of "science." Dismissive of the Creator and revealing his adherence to humanism, Frist stated, "It isn't just a matter of faith, it's a matter of science."
Well, if the advancement of modern science includes taking a human being's life and destroying it so that another human being may potentially gain a medical benefit from this atrocity at an undetermined time in the future, then count me out. The purposeful destruction of innocent human life is an abomination and should be opposed in the strongest possible legal and political fashion.
Regardless of the twisted rhetoric and complicated medical terminology involved in the embryonic stem cell debate, what is at stake here are human lives. Within the parameters of this debate, an "embryo" is a human being in its earliest stages of development. No one, no matter how supportive of this type of research they may be, can dispute the fact that an embryo is a human life.
This sad story is yet another example of the increasingly obvious fact that pro-life conservatives have no home in the Republican Party . You would think that with a Republican-controlled government (controlling the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court where 7 out of 9 justices were nominated by Republicans), GOP leaders would take this extraordinary opportunity to make a strong push for conservative values and constitutional government. Instead, what we see from the weak-kneed Republican leadership is just the opposite.
Republican House Majority leader Tom DeLay recently made the absurd statement that Frist is a "good man...advocating a bad policy." What makes this statement absurd is that DeLay previously made a statement about embryonic stem cell research as being the "dismemberment of living, distinct human beings," which is true. So if Frist supports the "dismemberment of living, distinct human beings," then logically, he cannot under any circumstances be considered a "good man," can he? If Bill Frist supported legalized slavery, would DeLay still consider him to be a "good man...advocating a bad policy?"
As much as they would like to, the Republican Party simply cannot have it both ways. In their attempt to reach out to and please every interest group in the nation, this party of compromise has left their core constituency of conservative voters out in the cold.
In the "big tent" atmosphere of modern Republican politics, the structure can become only so large before the platform that it is anchored to becomes unstable. When ultra-socialist Democratic Senators such as Dianne Feinstein become excited about remarks that a supposedly conservative Republican leader makes, alarm bells should begin to ring in conservative households all across America.
The Constitution Party is the only political party in America today that is 100% pro-life. You will not find any Constitution Party candidates that support embryonic stem cell research. Not one. If a candidate wishes to run for political office on the Constitution Party ticket, then he or she must fully agree with our platform in order to get the nomination. We believe that our platform actually means something, unlike the Republicrats and Demicans currently in control of our ballooning and immoral government.
The top Republican in the United States Senate has thrown his support in with the pro-death crowd. According to the Associated Press, GOP Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is pushing for government-funded research on human embryos.
Frist believes that the extermination of human beings that are in the earliest stages of their development is crucial for the advancement of "science." Dismissive of the Creator and revealing his adherence to humanism, Frist stated, "It isn't just a matter of faith, it's a matter of science."
Well, if the advancement of modern science includes taking a human being's life and destroying it so that another human being may potentially gain a medical benefit from this atrocity at an undetermined time in the future, then count me out. The purposeful destruction of innocent human life is an abomination and should be opposed in the strongest possible legal and political fashion.
Regardless of the twisted rhetoric and complicated medical terminology involved in the embryonic stem cell debate, what is at stake here are human lives. Within the parameters of this debate, an "embryo" is a human being in its earliest stages of development. No one, no matter how supportive of this type of research they may be, can dispute the fact that an embryo is a human life.
This sad story is yet another example of the increasingly obvious fact that pro-life conservatives have no home in the Republican Party . You would think that with a Republican-controlled government (controlling the Senate, the House of Representatives, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court where 7 out of 9 justices were nominated by Republicans), GOP leaders would take this extraordinary opportunity to make a strong push for conservative values and constitutional government. Instead, what we see from the weak-kneed Republican leadership is just the opposite.
Republican House Majority leader Tom DeLay recently made the absurd statement that Frist is a "good man...advocating a bad policy." What makes this statement absurd is that DeLay previously made a statement about embryonic stem cell research as being the "dismemberment of living, distinct human beings," which is true. So if Frist supports the "dismemberment of living, distinct human beings," then logically, he cannot under any circumstances be considered a "good man," can he? If Bill Frist supported legalized slavery, would DeLay still consider him to be a "good man...advocating a bad policy?"
As much as they would like to, the Republican Party simply cannot have it both ways. In their attempt to reach out to and please every interest group in the nation, this party of compromise has left their core constituency of conservative voters out in the cold.
In the "big tent" atmosphere of modern Republican politics, the structure can become only so large before the platform that it is anchored to becomes unstable. When ultra-socialist Democratic Senators such as Dianne Feinstein become excited about remarks that a supposedly conservative Republican leader makes, alarm bells should begin to ring in conservative households all across America.
The Constitution Party is the only political party in America today that is 100% pro-life. You will not find any Constitution Party candidates that support embryonic stem cell research. Not one. If a candidate wishes to run for political office on the Constitution Party ticket, then he or she must fully agree with our platform in order to get the nomination. We believe that our platform actually means something, unlike the Republicrats and Demicans currently in control of our ballooning and immoral government.