Group asks candidates for pledge of allegiance

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 Personal fidelity to my spouse.9
 Respect for the marital bonds of others.10
 Official fidelity to the U.S. Constitution, supporting the elevation of none but faithful constitutionalists as judges or justices.11
 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.12
 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. 13
 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.” 14
 Earnest, bona fide legal advocacy for the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) at the federal and state levels.15
 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. 16
 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.17
 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.18
 Rejection of Sharia Islam and all other anti-woman, anti-human rights forms of totalitarian control.19
 Recognition that robust childbearing and reproduction is beneficial to U.S. demographic, economic, strategic and actuarial health and security. 20
 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.21
 Fierce defense of the First Amendment‟s rights of Religious Liberty and Freedom of Speech22, 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.
http://www.thefamilyleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/themarriagevow.final_.7.7.111.pdf

This is what GOP candidates are being asked to sign onto. Bachmann already has. Have fun with the nitpicking. Interesting how they are vowing to reject totalitarianism and intolerance by vowing to a bunch of totalitarianism and intolerance.
 
The "pledge of allegiance" always sounded rather authoritarian to me, something a dictatorship would require...
 
The sad thing is how many in the US support these statements
 
Fierce defense of the First Amendment‟s rights of Religious Liberty and Freedom of Speech22, 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.

Darn homosexuals not letting me insult them!
 
The "pledge of allegiance" always sounded rather authoritarian to me, something a dictatorship would require...

No, it really isn't. Asking for a candidate's support on a policy position before a group gives their political support is a basic building block of electoral democracy, not some fascist gesture.

It's a way that interest groups gauge how much politicians in their own party support their views. Liberal and conservative groups ask for pledges like this all the time in any democratic country. It can lead to an endorsement, which is good for the candidate, and a way to put pressure on him to carry out his pledge, which is good for the interest group.

Politicians sign on to as many pledges like this as are compatible with their beliefs as a matter of course. What's interesting is when they sign onto a platform that's out of step with the political mainstream.
 
That sounds too Sharia Lawish to me.
Isn't there an actual commandment in Sharia Law against pornography? It seems like it would be very hard to be against Sharia Law while implementing Sharia Law, but what do I know about doublethink?
 
No, it really isn't. Asking for a candidate's support on a policy position before a group gives their political support is a basic building block of electoral democracy, not some fascist gesture.

It's a way that interest groups gauge how much politicians in their own party support their views. Liberal and conservative groups ask for pledges like this all the time in any democratic country. It can lead to an endorsement, which is good for the candidate, and a way to put pressure on him to carry out his pledge, which is good for the interest group.

Politicians sign on to as many pledges like this as are compatible with their beliefs as a matter of course. What's interesting is when they sign onto a platform that's out of step with the political mainstream.

I may have confused it with pledge of allegiance done in American schools, sorry.
 
This country is getting scarier and scarier for free-thinking people...people who do not need to abide by a dogma or cower before some "god"...People who have the strength of mind to see things for themselves and not through some outdated literature.
 
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.21
Surprising they support raising taxes.

 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
Marriage is great! :)

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.12
Lets deny it for teh gays so they can have less health, terrible sex, short lives and no financial stability! \o/
 
This country is getting scarier and scarier for free-thinking people...
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Anybody who would sign this would certainly never get my vote for any sort of public office, so I'm all for it. It is almost a perfect litmus test of what sort of individual who should never have a position of power in any democratic society. I wonder how most of the married ones are going to try to rationalize having far less than 2 children.
 
It wouldn't be for the average Catholic 50 years ago.
 
 Official fidelity to the U.S. Constitution, supporting the elevation of none but faithful constitutionalists as judges or justices.
They want Roberts, Scalia, Thomas, and Alito impeached? :eek:
 
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