Christian Liberty Party

The Christian Liberty Party is a political party in the United States whose platform advocates social conservatism.[1] Its platform positions include the opposition to abortion, as well as opposition to property taxes;[1] it advocates "an educational system that respects individual freedom of conscience and reinforces the Biblical role and responsibility of the family as the educator of youth".[2] Ideologically, the Christian Liberty Party is aligned with the Christian right and Christian nationalism, viewing the United States as a Christian state and seeing "the Bible as a blueprint for political action".[3][4][5]

Christian Liberty Party
AbbreviationCLP
Founded2000 (2000)
IdeologyChristian right
Christian nationalism
Political positionRight-wing
Website
https://sites.google.com/site/christianlibertyparty/
  • Politics of United States
  • Political parties
  • Elections

History

The Christian Liberty Party was founded in June 2000 as the American Heritage Party after a group of members left the Constitution Party.[6] The reason for the establishment of Christian Liberty Party was due to the fact that the Constitution Party did not explicitly identify itself as a Christian party.[2] To this end, the Christian Liberty Party is "a political party that adopts the Bible as its political tetbook and is unashamed to be explicitly Christian ... [and] whose principles are drawn from Scripture."[2]

Campaigns

Under its old name of the American Heritage Party it ran candidates for local positions in 2000 and 2002 in the state of Washington.[2]

See also

References
  1. Hershey, Marjorie Randon (2005). Party Politics in America. Pearson Longman. p. 310. ISBN 978-0-321-20226-0.
  2. Blevins, Dave (2006). American Political Parties in the 21st Century. McFarland & Company. p. 15-17. ISBN 978-0-7864-2480-1.
  3. Green, John C.; Rozell, Mark J.; Wilcox, Clyde (2003). The Christian Right in American Politics: Marching to the Millennium. Georgetown University Press. p. 245. ISBN 978-1-58901-429-9.
  4. Hershey, Marjorie Randon (2017). Party Politics in America. Taylor & Francis. p. 45. ISBN 978-1-134-83666-6.
  5. McKeen, Leah A D, "Canadian Christian Nationalism?: The Religiosity and Politics of the Christian Heritage Party of Canada" (2015). Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive). 1740.
  6. Day, Alan John (2002). Political Parties of the World. John Harper. p. 508. ISBN 978-0-9536278-7-5.
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