SC County GOP: If You’ve Had Pre-Marital Sex, You Can’t Be A RepublicanI know people who vote Republican because they say like the financial policies. That may have been the case in the past, but it sure isn’t today’s Republican party, the new Republican is all about taking use back to the 50s, the era of “Father Knows Best” where the wife was barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen. Where LGBT people are thrown into jail and persecuted. The new Republican party is all about “I got mine, screw you”.
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By Jillian Rayfield
March 5, 2012
Before you can join the Laurens County Republican Party in South Carolina and get on the primary ballot, they ask that you pledge that you’ve never ever had pre-marital sex — and that you will never ever look at porn again.
Last Tuesday, the LCGOP unanimously adopted a resolution that would ask all candidates who want to get on the primary ballot to sign a pledge with 28 principles, because the party “does not want to associate with candidates who do not act and speak in a manner that is consistent with the SC Republican Party Platform.”
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But then they get even more specific. From the Chronicle:You must favor, and live up to, abstinence before marriage.
You must be faithful to your spouse. Your spouse cannot be a person of the same gender, and you are not allowed to favor any government action that would allow for civil unions of people of the same sex.
You cannot now, from the moment you sign this pledge, look at pornography.
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
How Crazy Is This…
Can you imagine having to sign a promise not to have premarital sex and not to watch porn before you can vote in the primary! In Laurens County Republican Party in South Carolina they are asking you to sign the pledge before joining the party. Welcome to the new Republican party.
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I'd say I'm shocked but I guess I'm really not. I'm not surprised that members of the County Republican Party would think that way but I'm a little surprised they would create a pledge like that for candidates to sign.
ReplyDeleteYou probably should have read that article better. If you had you would see that it says one must agree to those principles if they want to be a "candidate" and run for election as the republican party candidate for that county.
ReplyDeleteThey are not requiring anyone to sign such a pledge to "vote" in the primary.
That would be against Federal Election Laws.
I went by the opening sentence "Before you can join the Laurens County Republican Party in South Carolina and get on the primary ballot..." Since they said "Before you can join"
ReplyDeleteAnd I don't know if the primaries are covered under federal elections laws because in some states only party members can vote. While in other states it is open to unaffiliated voters and it is the party that decides who votes, not the state or federal government.
All you are doing Meg is making yet another "woe is me" attempt at demagoguery and victimhood.
ReplyDeleteWhat Jamie said is accurate. The local party is asking CANDIDATES to take the pledge, not voters.
It would be no different than the far left wing whackos asking their candidates to support SSM. That is what political platforms are made of. If you do not agree, vote with the opposition.