Posted on the front page of the Constitution Party national website:
Elan Becker’s Story
Newt Gingrich said in his Contract with America that “if you elect us, we will (downsize government)and he not only lied, but we saw an expansion of government at the same time. So much for “limited government Republicans”.
After President Bush was elected into office in 2005, there was something seriously wrong. The government has increased in size by almost 50%, the national debt was rising at an explosive pace, and the budget and trade deficits were rising as well. This never happened under president Clinton. Then when Michael Steele was elected chairman of the RNC, (what he said showed there was no difference) from the DNC. So I searched for a new party and I found the Constitution Party. You are our last hope for our survival. Elan Becker, disenfranchised voter of the two major parties.
Fifty years ago I assumed that homosexuality was a life style choice and that gangs of gays and lesbians roamed around looking to recruit hetrosexual straights. Forty years ago there was no one more anti gays in Boy Scout leadership than I, an Eagle Scout and ‘hard way’ brave in the Tribe of Mic-O-Say. Oh well, live and learn!
NEW YORK – The American Psychological Association declared Wednesday that mental health professionals should not tell gay clients they can become straight through therapy or other treatments.
Instead, the APA urged therapists to consider multiple options — that could range from celibacy to switching churches — for helping clients whose sexual orientation and religious faith conflict.
In a resolution adopted on a 125-to-4 vote by the APA’s governing council, and in a comprehensive report based on two years of research, the 150,000-member association put itself firmly on record in opposition of so-called “reparative therapy” which seeks to change sexual orientation.
No solid evidence exists that such change is likely, says the report, and some research suggests that efforts to produce change could be harmful, inducing depression and suicidal tendencies.
In dealing with gay clients from conservative faiths, says the report, therapists should be “very cautious” about suggesting treatments aimed at altering their same-sex attractions.
“There’s no evidence to say that change therapies work, but these vulnerable people are tempted to try them, and when they don’t work, they feel doubly terrified,” Glassgold said. “You should be honest with people and say, ‘This is not likely to change your sexual orientation, but we can help explore what options you have.'”
The APA task force took as a starting point the belief that homosexuality is a normal variant of human sexuality, not a disorder, and that it nonetheless remains stigmatized in ways that can have negative consequences.
The report also addressed the issue of whether adolescents should be subjected to therapy aimed at altering their sexual orientation. Any such approach should “maximize self-determination” and be undertaken only with the youth’s consent, the report said.
Wayne Besen, a gay-rights activist who has sought to discredit the so-called “ex-gay” movement, welcomed the APA findings.
“Ex-gay therapy is a profound travesty that has led to pointless tragedies, and we are pleased that the APA has addressed this psychological scourge,” Besen said.
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“I am not, nor have I ever been, Bible thumping zealot Donald J. Grundmann of northern California. He use to be a terrific anti IRS, anti Federal Reserve, anti veterans abuse type until the Protestant [and two of my personal heroes are Martin Luther and John Calvin] Fundamentalists delivered the pods to his basement ……….
Libertarians nearly doubling their electoral vote,
2 x 0 = 0?
Oops, I thought we were in the other thread
https://independentpoliticalreport.com/2009/07/chuck-baldwin-let-it-come/
Oh please. I tried intelligent conversation and reasoning, and there was nothing on the other end except silly name-calling, repetition, lack of consideration of evidence, and bizarre distortions of logic and history. So an insult-fest was all that was left. I grew up in the slums of New York, so I can do that too.
But the original posts are still there; maybe you can do better than Mr. Whitle.
Mr. Whitley,
(I like the way you write, btw)
I wanted to say: “Laws are implemented..to safeguard “all” people.
Whether you or I approve of one’s sexual practices or not, there are now laws on the books against “hate Crimes”
ie: due to a person’s race, sexual orientation, religion. The Hate laws add years to the initial prison sentence.
You say that law is not an implement- a mere tool – Laws are broken daily, sentences are overturned due to slick lawyering, murderers are set free from peer jury pools and yes, innocent people are often accused. As long as we
“mere humans” are in charge of decision making, there will never be a fault free law making society. We are not omnipotent. Flesh and Blood- are we. Have you ever thought that perhaps those of us that “fail” must fail in order to evolve? Each mistake we make is a possible step to gaining a hard won wisdom. We can’t impose wisdom. How simple life would be if all people had the clarity to only do the “right” thing. Okay enough of my blah blah lol.
In Conclusion, my point is (and I do have one and no it’s not on the top of my head) my point is -In a perfect world there would be no strife no wars no abuse etc…etc… We have to bend or we will break. You say we are already broken. We have many broken ways many broken lives, mending starts in only the smallest ways. One baby step at a time. One drop of rain makes lake. But, it takes time.
peace
In response to “patriot1”: you too are in error, though of an opposite persuasion.
You write: “laws are implements as our society grows and changes.” But, law is NOT an “implement”. If it were, it would merely be a tool, usable for any agenda as it evidently is thought to be today. It is nonesuch.
I also dispute you concept of former “draconian” practices. By this, you defame wholesale the lives and beliefs of those who formed this country’s original government. You are in error there too.
And I dispute your insinuation that modern “social concepts” are invariably somehow more “enlightened”. In many instances, I would argue the reverse.
Without historic consciousness, regardless of how sophisticated and technologically advanced, all societies will become barbaric in behavior. We are at that point in America today because of this “liberal” mindset.
As for “alienating” gays (by this, you mean homosexual deviants) and “pro-choice” (by this, you mean murderous abortionists) what you apparently would do is conform the law of the people to your own lusts and desires.
Yes, there will always be perverted persons, just like there will always be murderers; but no, they should never be encouraged as being “normal” or a “right”. The “rights” in this nation are those which exist in the people, and they are reflected in the common law, which is superior (unless expressly proscribed under the Constitution) to state and federal law.
Common law, which is often based on the law of nature, has long held homosexual deviancy as criminal sodomy. Society therefore dose have vested interest in prohibiting this perverse behavior, and for many good reasons too…it is correlated with wide scale transmission of sexual diseases, in but one example.
You make these errors because your understanding is that the law is an “implement”. It is a gross mistake you make. You again reiterate this in your erroneous claim that: “Everyone has their “own” truths.”
If one extends your “reasoning”, you therefore must advocate anarchy and that there be NO government; and that there be no law at all of any kind, since “truth” supposedly is indeterminable under your “logic”.
That I know of, truth is nonesuch, despite Pontius Pilot’s contempt of it.
In my humble opinion, the Constitution Party remains grossly misinformed, often to the point of incoherence, on matters which it professes it advocates…from its mistaken exclusionary religious credos in the national platform to its abject distortion of “constitutional” elimination of public education.
In many cases, several of this party’s planks, if enacted, would necessitate repeal or amendment of no less than the separate state constitutions, but perhaps also the US Constitution itself which this party supposedly holds sacrosanct.
Until this party becomes more accurate and precise in its statements regarding the US Constitution, and until it thinks strategically rather than as reactionaries, it will remain the bitter fringe group element that it is apparently satisfied in being.
Given 2008 voter dissatisfaction, and especially when compared to the Libertarians nearly doubling their electoral vote, this party should recognize its own abject failure to resonate.
The Constitution Party refuses to decide the defining question which demands an answer if they are honest: is it a political party or is it a religious organization?
Those are not the same thing; and exactly like alcohol and gasoline, rarely if ever do the results mix well.
To the gentleman who extended “hope” in the Constitution Party, you do so in vain.
This party is just as entrenched in its own unsupportable dogma as any of the others, in fact, it is more so in many many areas…worse, for it refuses correction, being a stiff-necked people.
In the melting pot we call “America”
does the Constitution party represent
ALL the people. We live in a very diverse country, harsh realities are plenty. Its easy to be idealistic about
how a country “should” view problems.
The key is to know that ONE way of thinking does not solve the problems
of the Country. Do you really think by alienating Gays and Pro Choice people
that they will just simply vanish? Don’t you think being able to allow people to LIVE freely under the law poses no risk
in the general scheme of things? You can’t go back and try to reinvent the wheel. We as a country have changed
from the times of our forefathers. And we shouldn’t want to go back to such draconian ideals. Sure, no party is perfect but, to go backward and try to abolish laws that were put into place to
safeguard a persons rights “under the law” seems outrageous. Laws are implements as our society grows and changes. We can only control the small little space we inhabit at home.
Most people do care about their country, but choose to make their difference within their families, ie: attention given to their children, teaching them to LOVE thy neighbor.
Teaching them not to be prejudice.
Teaching them that just because someone does not believe in what you believe does not the other person bad or wrong. Everyone has their “own” truths. Those truths are made up of their sum total of their life experiences.
This is what makes humans so unique.
We are given “free will.” Its when we try to control masses of people that we
step over a line. To impose our WILL
on others. Life can be made easy, or life can be made hard. One thing for sure, Life doesn’t last forever.
peace
Sure!
The two “Big Box” parties are losing steam. The GOP is all but extinct (Zogby) The Whigs and the Federalists became obsolete when they ignored their base… so too the R’s for being the taxing, big government spending, unconstitutional war mongering party that they accuse the D’s of being. Far worse big spenders than the D’s. Crunch the #’s. What about W’s “No Child Left behind”? Put the final nail in the coffin of local control of education. Should I go on?
Welcome Elan – to the true loyal opposition. Beware of the Post Republican Stress Disorder and those who use fear to try to keep people in the RIPS fold.
What in the world does the Constitution Party have to do the constitution ????? Unfortunately the other political mice are also unfocused.
Let me know in a couple of years if you find any thing pro veterans in their Veterans Committee! Let me know if they are about any thing but anti homosexual and anti abortion issues, pretty much non agenda for most Americans!
Good luck, as the Dems and GOP are so horrible! [Reference: Kennedy, LBJ, Nixon, Ford, Jimmy, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton I, Cheney I, Bush II! Vote against the candidate you hate and the other major party candidate will fill in quite ‘nicely’!
Ya want smaller government ???? Ronnie will run up the bills, and W, and Nixon, and Ford…….
Ya want peace and prosperity ???? You can depend on ‘peace keepers’ like LBJ!
Like I said, “Good Luck”!