Rick Santorum and Michelle Bachmann - pledge to America

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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.