Arkansas Disaffilates From National CP
The Constitution Party of Arkansas’ Central Committee has unanimously approved the following resolution, as moved by Mark Moore and seconded by Buffy Zelnick, on August 25, 2006:
Whereas, according to the National Constitution Party By Laws, state affiliates are required and expected to uphold the National party’s platform, and
Whereas the National Constitution Party platform states, in part, that “life begins at fertilization,” and that “we affirm the God-given legal personhood of all unborn human beings, without exception,” and
Whereas the Nevada state affiliate to the Constitution Party has elected central committee officers, including the current chairman, Christopher Hansen, who refuse to support the National Party’s no-exceptions policy on abortion, but insist upon upholding and promoting a more permissive policy on abortion, and
Whereas said Nevada state affiliate has encouraged and supported candidates within their party who similarly refuse to uphold the National Party’s 100% pro-life policy on abortion, and
Whereas the National Party leadership has refused to take the steps necessary to ensure that the Nevada state affiliate upholds the National Party platform, and
Whereas other state affiliates have recently similarly enlisted candidates for public office who do not uphold the National Party’s no-exceptions policy on abortion, and
Whereas the National Party has begun to evince the very same hostility towards government policy drawn from Biblical principle that is so prevalent in the two dominant parties which have led America into her current precarious position,
Be it therefore resolved that the Constitution Party of Arkansas is henceforth disaffiliated, withdrawing its participation, from the Constitution Party’s National Committee, and
Be it further resolved that the Constitution Party of Arkansas calls upon the Constitution Party’s Executive and National Committees to demonstrate a reasonable level of determination to enforce the Party’s platform among all its state affiliates, and cease their hypocrisy in using the mere names of Christ and Christianity in an attempt to bolster the party’s appeal and respectability while much of its leadership scoffs at the idea of seeking God’s standards for civil government.