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We see the need for a third party platform that represents people who are conservative on social issues but progressive on economic issues. Currently there doesn't seem to be one. We feel dissatisfied with both Democrat and Republican parties and feel that Libertarians are our primary opposites, therefore our voice needs to be heard as well.
We feel that Republicans, Libertarians and the Tea Party do not represent what I consider "Christ-like" behavior in political policy. We believe social justice, especially toward the poor, the weak and disadvantaged in society, and the elderly, is an essentual and universally understood morally "right" choice. Furthermore, we disagree with "Reagonomics," deregulation, and privatization, as a moral and ethical matter as well as a logical one. We also feel that environmentalism and supporting education is a morally and ethically right choice as well. We also feel the need to distance ourselves from the political left due to issues that the political left supports such as; abortion, gay marriage, and militant secularism.
Although we are a party that is based on the Christian ethos, we do not favor any church politically but do support churches and faith based institutions wholeheartedly. Many of us are "Red Letter Christians" but as a party we welcome anyone who sides with the basic platform and are willing to serve everyone with fairness and compassion.
Christian Democracy isn't a new political idealogy, though it is in American politics. Christian Democracy developed it's popularity in post World War II Europe when many Europeans grew skeptical of both left and right factions of political thought after witnessing the horrors of both Stalin's Communism and Hitler's Nazi Party. A more moderate political idealogy with roots pre-dating the French Revolution's split into right and left political factions was needed and since Chistianity was the most popular faith at that time in Europe and seamed to encompass the best of both worlds, Christian Democrats started coming into power. Here is an excerpt from the Wikipedia page that explains it a litte further.
"Christian democracy is a political ideology that seeks to apply Christian principles to public policy. It emerged in nineteenth-century Europe under the influence of conservatism and Catholic social teaching. It continues to be influential in Europe and Latin America, though in a number of countries its Christian ethos has been diluted by secularisation.
In practice, Christian democracy is often considered conservative on cultural, social and moral issues (social conservatism) and advocates a social market economy in the economic field (crossing over with social democratic economics but based on the family). In Europe, where their opponents have traditionally been secularist socialists, Christian democratic parties are moderately conservative overall, whereas in the very different cultural and political environment of Latin America they tend to lean to the left.
*In common with conservatism, traditional moral values (on marriage, abortion, etc.), opposition to secularization, a view of the evolutionary (as opposed to revolutionary) development of society, an emphasis on law and order, and a rejection of communism.
*In contrast to conservatism, open to change (for example, in the structure of society) and not necessarily supportive of the social status quo. *In common with liberalism, an emphasis on human rights and individual initiative. *In contrast to liberalism, a rejection of secularism, and an emphasis on the fact that the individual is part of a community and has duties towards it. *In common with socialism, an emphasis on the community, social solidarity, support for a welfare state, and support for some regulation of market forces. *In contrast to socialism, most European Christian Democrats support a market economy and do not adhere to the doctrine of class struggle. This does not necessarily carry over to some Latin American Christian Democratic Parties, with their LIberation Theology influence" Check us out on our facebook page and group
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