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compmanio365 wrote:
I'm not for or against the CP.....but I find that portion, that's right on the page, exactly where it was linked to, to be pretty unacceptable. Your "obscenity" is my "free speech". If you don't like it, fine, but again, my view is that no law should be passed that prevents someone from doing ANYTHING so long as that person is not endangering another or causing another to have THEIR rights violated. Other than that, keep government out of my life altogether, as much as possible. That's being for the Constitution.
From that quote I pulled straight from the CP's website, where the link provided takes us, it seems to me that they are big on pushing what THEY feel is right onto the rest of us, just like all the other politicians out there. No thank you. They may be great on gun rights, and everything else perhaps, but that one item rubs me the wrong way. That's all I'm saying, and also that it seems pretty hypocritical for a party called the "Constitution Party" to take a stance on this matter so against what the Constitution is all about.
OK, I found it in the pornography section of the platform. I will post the whole thing because it at least offers the party explanation for the stance:
Pornography
Samuel Adams said: "While the people are virtuous they cannot be subdued; but once they lose their virtue they will be ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader."
Pornography, at best, is a distortion of the true nature of sex created by God for the procreative union between one man and one woman in the holy bonds of matrimony, and at worst, is a destructive element of society resulting in significant and real emotional, physical, spiritual and financial costs to individuals, families and communities. We call on our local, state and federal governments to uphold our cherished First Amendment right to free speech by vigorously enforcing our laws against obscenity to maintain a degree of separation between that which is truly speech and that which only seeks to distort and destroy.
With the advent of the Internet and the benevolent neglect of the previous administrations, the pornography industry enjoyed uninhibited growth and expansion until the point today that we live in a sex-saturated society where almost nothing remains untainted by its perversion. While we believe in the responsibility of the individual and corporate entities to regulate themselves, we also believe that our collective representative body we call government plays a vital role in establishing and maintaining the highest level of decency in our community standards.
By my own standards, I do not see any support in founders intent, state constitutions, or other documents that suggests that walking around naked and engaging in public pornography would be covered in a form of speech that is constitutionally protected. However, there is plenty of quotes, documentation, state constitutional backing to argue for a constitutionally protected armed society.
This is the platform belief on personal conduct by public officials. Why should the rest of us be any different?
Character and Moral Conduct
John Adams, 2nd President and signer of the Declaration of Independence warned:
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
He also counseled:
"The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge - I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers." Our very Constitution is threatened when we permit immoral conduct by our leaders.
Public respect and esteem toward public officials has fallen to a shameful level. The Constitution Party finds that a cause of this national state of disgrace is the deterioration of personal character among government leaders, exacerbated by the lack of public outcry against immoral conduct by public office holders. Our party leaders and public officials must display exemplary qualities of honesty, integrity, reliability, moral uprightness, fidelity, prudence, temperance, justice, fortitude, self-restraint, courage, kindness, and compassion. If they cannot be trusted in private life, neither can they be trusted in public life.
It is imperative the members and nominated candidates representing the Constitution Party and its state affiliates recognize the importance of demonstrating good character in their own lives.
