Sunday, November 1, 2009

The Divine Party? I think not!

When we consider the numerous party possibilities we ought to remember that none of them properly respect the position of the Ethical Conservative.

  • Republican - While Republicans often hold some conservative values, still to this day the party does not formerly endorse "conservative values" in their platform definition.
  • Democrat - A party that was once much more conservative and embraced by many of our grandparents. Nevertheless, the party now has fully endorsed special interest and anti-conservative policies.
  • Libertarian - The focal policy on their platform is "individual sovereignty", while this is promising in the sense of individual liberties, this always has the potential to negate the idea of moral ethics defined by a sovereign creator.
  • American Conservative Party - This group also embraces the policy of "individual sovereignty". Here again, this has the potential to embrace human autonomy over that of of moral ethics defined by a sovereign creator. While even though they use the word conservative, they only commit to a fiscal conservative platform.
When choosing a party we must embrace the option with the best possible option for Ethical Conservativism, right government that rules with moral, Biblical truths. Several of these have the potential to do so, but we must be clear that NONE at this point formally embrace the ethical right. If you look at the web site of each party, you will find that each party makes no formal stance on the subject of ethical conservative views.

It is at this point that as Ethical Conservatives we ought to default to the principle of cobelligerence and vote for the party that most clearly represents the true conservatism at the time, until a party is willing to make a stand. This is not compromise but making them earn our votes.