Joshua Fauver: Demanding More From the Constitution Party

Joshua Fauver is the vice-chairman of the Clarion Call to Unite Committee (CCTUC), an organiztion seeking to unite all minor right-wing and constitutionalist parties under one banner. He is the volunteer coordinator for Free and Equal Elections Foundation and  is the Southeast Regional Coordinator for Robby Wells’ 2016 independent presidential campaign. Formerly a member of the Constitution Party, Fauver is now running for Louisiana state representative for the 21st district in the 2015 elections. 

Demanding More From the Constitution Party

Published June 7th, 2013

by Joshua Fauver

I will confess myself an avid follower of the Independent Political Report. They are without a doubt the most up to date and resourceful source of news in the world of third party & independent politics. One story I’ve been following is that of a certain Riley Hood (State Chairman of the Constitution Part of Wisconsin) Mr. Hood has a blog where he has written many pieces that I as well as many others find to be inflammatory, insensitive, and offensive and impermissible from a man in his position.

I want to share some of the things Mr. Hood has written. In his piece, Marry Two Same Sex Dogs?Riley Hood makes some incredibly offensive and insensitive remarks concerning homosexuals. In this particular piece Mr. Hood writes:

 “To “marry” two men is the equivalent of performing a ceremony, and issuing a license to two same-sex dogs. The same statement goes for lesbians.“

It is one thing to be fundamentally oppose to same sex marriage because of one’s personal religious belief or ideology, but to compare homosexuals to dogs, to suggest the two are in some way synonymous is nothing short of bigotry and offensive. Mr. Hood goes on to write, “Sodomites are already molesting your children…” Does Mr. Hood in all sincerity believe that the molestation of children is only being done by homosexuals? Sodomites are already molesting are children; is Mr. Hood not aware of all the molestation being carried out by heterosexuals? Is Mr. Hood blissfully unaware of the women who are raped by heterosexual men? Those who endure brutal sexual assault by those who are not homosexual. It is both ignorant and unacceptable for Mr. Hood to write such ignorant bigotry while holding the position of State Chairman of the Constitution Party of Wisconsin.

Riley Hood is not content to “bash” those who are homosexual or may support their lifestyle, no no no. He has to verbally “attack” those of a different faith as well. In his piece How About Those Muslim Student Union Alums? he stereotypes all those of the Muslim faith who have been educated in American Universities and been associated with the Muslim Student Union, using a list of 7 former Muslim Student Union Members who became terrorist as his evidence that all Muslims are terrorists. He suggests that in fact all Muslims are inherently evil when he writes: “To educate an evil man, is to empower him to commit greater acts of violence.”  
How absurd! All Muslims are not inherently evil and somehow subhuman or un-American simply because of their faith! Are we as a people really supposed to deny them the same right to education that every other American enjoys simply because of their chosen religion? Because we’ve concluded it is somehow evil? The idea is preposterous! Mr. Hood’s claim that all Muslims are terrorist and are evil human beings is nothing short of religious intolerance and religious discrimination.

Does Riley Hood stop there? No, that would be letting us all off way to easy! He continues in another one of his pieces entitled Stop Worshiping the Elephant God to attack the Republican Party. While attacking another political party is certainly not unheard of, it is the manner in which he chooses to do it that is alarming to me. Mr. Hood decided to compare the Republican Party to the Indian “elephant god” Ganesh when he writes:

 “Most Americans would find this appalling, yet there is an Elephant-god that is worshiped in America today, it is called the Republican Party. It has living icons, who speak the Elephant’s commandments.” 

Has the CP state leadership stooped so low that they take the approach to building the party that includes accusing those who vote for and support another political party are guilty of the sin of idolatry? How ridiculous! I’d hope to, at the very least, see a WWJVF (Who Would Jesus Vote For) campaign before they started condemning people of idolatry.

I’d like to call on the leadership of the Constitution Party (National Chairman Frank Fluckiger, Vice-Chairman Randy Stufflebeam, and the National Committee) to do something about this situation with Wisconsin State Chairman Riley J. Hood.

At the very least I’d like to see a public disavowment of these pieces by the national party.

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