The Constitution Party Abandons Honesty and the Pro-Life Cause

Hello all,  

I was Vice Chairman of the Ohio Constitution Party from 2000 to around 2005.  We worked very hard to get Michael Peroutka, the Presidential candidate for the CP, on the ballot in Ohio, and got him more votes per state CP member than any other state (if my memory serves me correctly).   

When the CP executive committee refused to keep its public promises and disaffiliate state chapters that had leadership that continued justified abortion in cases of rape, incest, and fetal handicap, and/or state chapters that ran candidates that openly justified abortion (California and Nevada), then the Ohio CP organized a formal protest with other state affiliates committed to protect the preborn.  Unfortunately, we lost the vote of the executive committee and they continued to allow pro-abortion leadership in CP tate affiliates.  Over ten state affiliates resigned or were booted out of the CP as a result of our formal protest.  Ohio decided to remain affiliated, however, as a result of the protest of Ohio's CP leadership, we were disaffiliated without a reason and contrary to the CP bylaws.  With all of the hard work we put into the Ohio CP, this was deeply hurtful.  (Ohio CP executive leadership Chuck Michaelis, Joe Rogers, Nathan Radcliffe, and Barry Sheets can verify these facts.)  

The upcoming meeting of the Ohio Constitution Party is not the "first" statewide meeting as you claim.  We have had several.  Chief Justice Roy Moore spoke at our first statewide meeting several years ago.  

This betrayal has been well-documented at http://www.principledpolicy.com/?p=45, http://www.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=750, http://www.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=635 and http://www.theamericanview.com/index.php?id=634 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Peroutka.   

The CP is only as good as its leadership, and I have no more respect for the leadership of the CP than I do the GOP, all their rhetoric notwithstanding.   

The sincere pro-lifers and constitutionalists of the "new and improved" Ohio CP should do better to join the Christian Liberty Party or become "salt and light" in the Republican Party, which platform is a sound basis to run a strong conservative, constitutionalist campaign.  Even Chuck Baldwin, the Presidential candidate of the CP, refused to keep his word and move for disaffiliation of state affiliates with leaders who justified abortion.  Howard Philips was insincere and cruel in his treatment of those within the Party who insisted on pro-life leadership.  With the CP leadership's unwillingness to keep their word and with their betrayal of the pro-life cause, they cannot be trusted. Unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it. The Constitution Party builds a house on sinking sand.  

Patrick Johnston http://www.rightremedy.org/