This is a project for American Political Process that I had entirely too much fun with. Note: The party symbols are linked to the parties' pages.
For my comparison, I decided I'd pick drug legalization and abortion to analyze. To spice
things up a bit, I chose the political stands of the Pansexual Peace Party, the Pot Party,
The Knights Party (KKK), and the Family Values Party.
As the name would lead one to believe, the party is very open towards sex. Their "catchy"
slogan on abortion is, "Against Abortion? Don't Have One!" The party believes that instead of
infringing on human rights to force a person to reproduce, that unhibited sexual education will
lead to less of a need for abortion and then offered a link. I clicked on this link, thinking
that the party would offer a list of birth control methods or something of that nature. Boy was
I wrong! This led to a page of links, including a forum on how to have multiple orgasms, several
sex societies, and a comic strip in which a pagan man upsets an elderly Christian woman by his
having an anatomically correct reindeer posing spread-eagle on his roof for celebration of Winter
Solstice.
The party does not take a direct stand on the legalization of recreational drugs; however, the
party does push for the legalization of hemp with the mind-altering chemicals in the plant
removed or "Hemp for Victory!" as the party suggests. This is because the party believes that
"hemp is an extremely versatile crop that U.S. farmers are forbidden to grow. It is an
important part of our cultural heritage and an environmentally-benign raw material for textiles,
paint, fuel, paper, medicine and even food. The PPP supports the complete legalization of hemp
as an agricultural crop and the removal of cannabis, the herb of the hemp plant, from federal
Schedule I status."
Tom feels a little less strongly about drug use. He doesn't say it "slapps OUR BELOVED HEAVENLY
FATHER directly in the face," but he does comment on how involving oneself with alcohol, tobacco,
and other drugs it is no more than indirectly murdering God's innocent children. But still, if a person's money has been used to promote
or support such products, that person is out of luck. He or she cannot contribute money to the
Family Values Party.
All in all, this assignment merely reinforced my belief that there are some crazy people out there.
My professor gave me a 100% and commented that my paper was a "lively presentation... a good read."
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The Pansexual Peace Party is a very left-wing party based on Wiccan beliefs. They party has yet
to produce a candidate and the party's website doesn't even have a domain name, yet they sell
several pieces of merchandise. The tee-shirts are advertised to be made with organic cotton, and
adds that "we think it is worth it to offer organic cotton because the conventional way of
growing cotton is so damaging to the Earth."
Concerning The Pot Party, I feel the name speaks for itself. The two purposes of The Pot Party
are in the order as follows: "to legalize pot use" and "to implement proportional
representation." Because of such a basic platform, The Pot Party borrows the rest of its
platform from the Libertarian Party. The Libertarian is set up on the fundamentals that you can
run your life better than a politician. The Libertarian Party believes that everyone should be
free to do what they so choose and naturally, this includes abortions.
On the other end of the spectrum, the Knight Party, which is affiliated with the Klu Klux Klan,
has a very rigid policy towards both of my issues. The Knight's Party states that, "Abortion is
nothing other than government legalized murder. While we stress the need for a moral and
Christian lifestyle, we applaud those women who choose to give life rather than murder one of
God's children." The party is also very opposed to drug use. In fact, the party believes in
regular drug screening for persons on welfare.
The Family Values Party was founded by a delightful fellow named Tom Wells, who believes that God
himself spoke directly to him. On the website, Tom states, "At 2am December the 25, 1994 OUR
BELOVED HEAVENLY FATHER reiterated that same message to me as HE said, "TOM----TELL MY PEOPLE
THAT THEY ARE TO TELL THEIR PUBLIC OFFICIALS THAT THEY ARE PREPARED NOT TO PAY THEIR TAXES
UNTIL ABORTION IS NO LONGER PUBLICLY FUNDED." Unlike anything I have ever heard before, The
Family Values Party has restrictions on who can and who cannot contribute money to the party.
This includes not financially supporting anything to do with alcohol, tobacco, other recreational
drugs, or abortion. This is part of the "application for donating money to his campaign." It
cleary shows his belief concerning abortion:
[...] nor do I support with my money or by my membership any organization that believes in
or supports the premeditated murderings of GOD'S innocent children, such as, The Democratic party
, The National Education Association (NEA), The National Organization for Women (NOW), The
Planned Parenthood Federation of America, just to name a few. We, loving and obedient children
of GOD, cannot of our own freewill associate ourselves with those that delibortaly profess
and/or who preform such ungodly acts that they are literally slapping OUR BELOVED HEAVENLY
FATHER in HIS face. Such as, the deliborate actions of our President, William Jefferson
Clinton, as he twice publicly slapped OUR BELOVED HEAVENLY FATHER directly in the face when
he did his ungodly in-your-face VETOES of the only two bills that have passed both houses of our
congress to stop only the most horrific forms of these premeditated murderings, the particle
birth abortion. You must see that Our very faith is put to the test on this very issue.
Because of this ability to legally premeditatedly murder ones own child, that law makes all of
us partakers in an act that literally slapps OUR BELOVED HEAVENLY FATHER directly in HIS face.
That law makes all of us partakers in an act that says that life is just an accident and that
life does not come from OUR BELOVED HEAVENLY FATHER.
