Rick Santorum and Michelle Bachmann - pledge to America

[abqdan]

I'm rarely surprised by the actions of Republicans - but this is SO extreme, I find it difficult to believe anyone would want to put their name to it - yet here we have two Republicans (admittedly, unlikely to win the Primary) who would be President of our country. Their pledge includes:

• Ending the right to abortion


• Reinstating DADT, or establishing segregation in the military


• Preventing the use of pornography (while re-commiting to the first amendment!)


• Amending the US Constitution to ban marriage equality (while respecting the marital bonds of others)


• Support for the first amendment, except where anyone speaks out against a Judeo-Christian religious organization (but condemnation of Islam is OK)


• Preventing women in the military from serving in war zones


• Irresponsible and reckless action on the economy

Hmm... well, maybe I'm not so surprised after all. Read it - then weep.

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Therefore, in any elected or appointed capacity by which I may have the honor of serving our fellow citizens in these United States, I the undersigned do hereby solemnly vow to honor and to cherish, to defend and to uphold, the Institution of Marriage as only between one man and one woman. I vow to do so through my:

• Personal fidelity to my spouse.


• Respect for the marital bonds of others.


• Official fidelity to the U.S. Constitution, supporting the elevation of none but faithful constitutionalists as judges or justices.


• Vigorous opposition to any redefinition of the Institution of Marriage -faithful monogamy between one man and one woman - through statutory-, bureaucratic-, or court-imposed recognition of intimate unions which are bigamous, polygamous, polyandrous, same-sex, etc.


• Recognition of the overwhelming statistical evidence that married people enjoy better health, better sex, longer lives, greater financial stability, and that children raised by a mother and a father together experience better learning, less addiction, less legal trouble, and less extramarital pregnancy.


• Support for prompt reform of uneconomic, anti-marriage aspects of welfare policy, tax policy, and marital/divorce law, and extended "second chance" or "cooling-off' periods for those seeking a "quickie divorce."


• Earnest, bona fide legal advocacy for the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) at the federal and state levels.


• Steadfast embrace of a federal Marriage Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which protects the definition of marriage as between one man and one woman in all of the United States.


• Humane protection of women and the innocent fruit of conjugal intimacy - our next generation of American children - from human trafficking, sexual slavery, seduction into promiscuity, and all forms of pornography and prostitution, infanticide, abortion and other types of coercion or stolen innocence.


• Support for the enactment of safeguards for all married and unmarried U.S. Military and National Guard personnel, especially our combat troops, from inappropriate same-gender or opposite-gender sexual harassment, adultery or intrusively intimate commingling among attracteds (restrooms, showers, barracks, tents, etc.); plus prompt termination of military policymakers who would expose American wives and daughters to rape or sexual harassment, torture, enslavement or sexual leveraging by the enemy in forward combat roles.


• Rejection of Sharia Islam and all other anti-woman, anti-human rights forms of totalitarian control


• Recognition that robust childbearing and reproduction is beneficial to U.S. demographic, economic, strategic and actuarial health and security.


• Commitment to downsizing government and the enormous burden upon American families of the USA's $14.3 trillion public debt, its $77 trillion in unfunded liabilities, its $1.5 trillion federal deficit, and its $3.5 trillion federal budget.


• Fierce defense of the First Amendment's rights of Religious Liberty and Freedom of Speech, especially against the intolerance of any who would undermine law-abiding American citizens and institutions of faith and conscience for their adherence to, and defense of, faithful heterosexual monogamy.

Comments

[madknits.livejournal.com]

I tried to post a comment, but I exceeded the limit of characters.
I shall post it in my own journal.

[abqdan.livejournal.com]

I didn't even know there was a limit! OK - off to read your journal :-)

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I don't know that I've read a more frightening manifest in my lifetime. Did they borrow from Hitler?

[divos-voids.livejournal.com]

Oh...my....

I had heard about this, but had not seen the contents. Scary! But how are they going to truly "respect marital bonds" for someone like me, who is legally married to my same sex partner according to the state of CA with all the other anti-gay rhetoric?

and really? robust childbearing in an already overcrowded planet?

and where's the debate about divorce (and not the quickie ones they mention?

geez...what morons!