We have joined ourselves together within the Republican Party to achieve our common goals - to give definition and strength to the Conservative movement within these United States. In these, we proudly affirm our belief in the following principles:
This nation was established by men humbly seeking the guidance of Almighty God. Our hope for God to bless our country exists only if we again seek his Divine guidance.
We support the United States Constitution in the tradition of the Founding Fathers as the Supreme law of the land.
The power of the Federal Government must be strongly bound by the chains of the Constitution to allow maximum individual achievement through freedom.
Our country is a sovereign nation. We must never compromise our national sovereignty to other nations, the United Nations, or any other world organization. Our Foreign Policy must always reflect our national self-interest.
Our Founding Fathers firmly held to the conviction that religious freedom was fundamental to a free society. We also express the conviction that we are a God-fearing people, according one another the equal right of religious freedom and acknowledging with reverence the duty of obedience to the will of God.
Our individual states have sovereign authority to govern the lands and peoples with their borders. We will not abide usurpation of state sovereignty by Federal mandate or economic extortion.
The sanctity of human life is paramount in any free society. The unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life which cannot be infringed. This sacred right extends to all persons regardless of age or infirmity and also would not allow for euthanasia, assisted suicide, embryonic stem cell research, human cloning or public funding for any of these practices.
We believe that each of us should be free to achieve or fail according to our individual abilities, without the need for governmental assistance or quotas.
Taxes should serve only to pay for the enumerated Constitutional duties of government. It is not the role of our government to penalize financial success, nor protect from financial failure. Each citizen should share equitably in financing the freedoms we enjoy.
Families have been the foundation of our national strength. If we are to endure as a free nation, the traditional family unit must be preserved and encouraged to thrive.
Parents bear the final responsibility before God in the rearing of their children. Parents have been commanded by God to love their children and lead them in the paths of truth. Parents must be free to discipline their children in love and direct their education without government intrusion.
When truth was taught in schools, our nation prospered. As we have abandoned the teaching of absolutes to relativism, our children have lost the potential to achieve greatness. Our system of education must demand excellence rather than accommodate mediocrity.
Private property rights are fundamental to our liberty.
The right to keep and bear arms is fundamental to deterring government tyranny and must be preserved without governmental interference.
Free enterprise competition has been the engine of our national success. Free market capitalism has its only limitation in the human imagination. Governmental regulation of the economy must conform to Constitutional limits.
The first obligation of federal government is to defend its people against enemies. To protect our citizenry in an stable world, the United States must retain the strongest defense system in the world with their singular objective of victory in every conflict and a complete authentic accounting or return of every person in our armed forces captured or missing in action.
We affirm the Constitutional prerogative of Congress alone to declare war. The United States military should only be used to protect the national security of the United States; executive orders or other international bodies not excepted.
Only men, not women, will serve in combat. Women shall not be drafted into the armed forces.
We condemn "man's inhumanity to man" by exploitation of slave labor in our county or elsewhere.
It's time for a radical departure from both of these worthless parties.
Barna's research indicates that, of the 80 million Americans who claim to be born again, roughly only 7 million of them have a biblical perspective. In Think Like Jesus, he examines guidelines for developing a Christian worldview and letting it change one's way of life.Researcher Says Most Christians Lack Biblical Worldview
Nietzsche's point has even more force in our own society, wherein, with few exceptions, men and women live their lives as if there were no God and yet still carry on a profession of being religious. In Nietzsche's dramatic picture, there is something tragically absurd about the man who is shocked by someone else's atheism when it is impossible to discover any genuine religious faith in him. For the average American today, as for the average individual in Nietzsche's Germany, it simply makes no practical difference whether God exists or not. This is true in spite of those polls that show that 98 percent of Americans believe in God. Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and the Death of God
Q. Sir, on May 6th, on the floor of the house you asked the question: "Are the American people determined they still wish to have a Constitutional Republic." How would you answer that question, Sir?
A. A growing number of Americans want it, but a minority, and that is why we are losing this fight in Washington at the moment. That isn't as discouraging as it sounds, because if you had asked me that in 1976 when I first came to Washington, I would have said there were a lot fewer who wanted it then. We have drifted along and, although we have still enjoyed a lot of prosperity in the last twenty-five years, we have further undermined the principles of the Constitution and private property market economy. Therefore, I think we have to continue to do what we are doing to get a larger number. But if we took a vote in this country and told them what it meant to live in a Constitutional Republic and what it would mean if you had a Congress dedicated to the Constitution they would probably reject it. It reminds me of a statement by Walter Williams when he said that if you had two candidates for office, one running on the programs of Stalin and the other running on the programs of Jefferson the American people would probably vote for the candidate who represented the programs of Stalin. If you didn't put the name on it and just looked at the programs, they would say, Oh yeah, we believe in national health care and we believe in free education for everybody and we believe we should have gun control. Therefore, the majority of the people would probably reject Thomas Jefferson. So that describes the difficulty, but then again, we have to look at some of the positive things which means that we just need more people dedicated to the rule of law. Otherwise, there will be nothing left here within a short time. Are the American people determined they still wish to have a Constitutional Republic