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Date:         Wed, 26 Aug 1992 10:48:55 CDT
From:         Sue Clark <SACLARK@UNMCVM.BITNET>
Subject: Re: What is family values?

Good Morning all:

It was stated...

> What Republicans mean: rightist Christian intolerance.

All here seem to agree that the Christian right are in charge of the hard-
line conservatives of the Republican party, as one editorialist, a liberal
mind you said concerning this, 'So what, the ultra-liberal feminists control
the hard-line left of the Democratic party.' Mr. Blunt is correct.  Check.

About intolerance...

The voice of the hard-liner right was heard on that Monday of the Republican
Convention, but did I not also hear other voices that week, and some them
pro-choice AT the Republican convention?  Believe it or not Repbulicans have
their individualists also.  Governor William Weld of Massachusetts, for in-
stance, stepped out of line of the ideals of the platform and talked about
abortion rights from the grandstand where everyone at the convention to take
a their potshot.  But they did not attack him.  As Mary McGrory stated in her
editorial of August 20, 1992:

'He (Weld) threw a rhetorical grenade out onto the floor and ran before any-
one knew he had been there.  In exactly 4 1/2 minutes he mentioned the word
'abortion' several times, and announced he favored choice and was hardly
booed at all.

Weld had the convention managers by the throat.  Had he been trashed and
viciously booed, he would have nullified the reason he was allowed to talk
in the first place.  He was to personify the contrast between the easy-
going Republicans and the uptight Democrats, who did not dare at their
convention, to let pro-life Pennsylvania Govenor Robert Casey open hi
mouth.

(This part is good) The Christian right, which dictated the abortion plank,
did not hiss the enemy. Governor Terry Branstad of Iowa, chairman of his
delegation, explained the exceptional latitude granted Weld.

'They feel Weld is a big improvement over Dukakis.'  It seemed the delegates
on the floor, for the most part, also said 'Why not let him speak?' Nobodys
feathers were ruffled, not even the hard-line conservatives.

'Weld is a brainy and relaxed man with strong libertarian views.  He has
embarked on strigent welfare policies, but is a staunch friend and champion
of gays.'

I may not agree with him, but so what, different views are in both parties,
as was shown in Houston, but not in New York City.

At least he wasn't called a 'Nazi', a seig-heiler, narrow-minded, or kicked &
spit upon or had garbage thrown in their face, like the anti-abortion group
had done to them at Madison Square Garden.  They were doing the obscene gesture
of praying.  At least he wasn't threatened by the organizers of the Democratic
party that if he even showed up, he would be threatened with fines and jail
terms.  This was backed up by a liberal judge in New York.  But the anti-abor-
tion people came anyway, because at least they know that this is still a free
country,....maybe not at the Garden.

Christian intolerance????  Hardly.

Republican intolerance???? If you don't believe Weld, then remember what an-
other person said about her being tolerant of views....remember Barbara Bush.


>What Democrats mean: pro-social values specific to the role of the family in
society.

My, my what a paragon of a statement, but that is as far as it goes.  When Al
Gore was asked about he believed family values were, he said:

1) More money for breast cancer research
2) Government money for abotion on demand

Yes sir, these are really uplifting family values.  What the Democrats mean
my friend, is exactly what Bill Clinton plans to do to make the 'family
value' ideas of Al Gore come true, raise taxes to create more social programs
so more and more people can be dependent on government and that government
should take care of the needs or whims of every aspect of a persons life.

No wonder the lady who analyzed the conventions on her own in my previous
posting of family values was scared of the Democrats ideals.  Who wouldn't
be.

Rightest Christian intolerance???  Let's remember the leftist feminists in-
tolerance to Bob Casey and the pushing of the Pennsylvania delegates back into
the dark recesses of the Garden convention floor, where the rest of the con-
gressional liberal leaders were hiding during Clinton's speech.

Both parties are not perfect, nor are they both totally tolerant, but don't
you dare give us that 'paragon of virtue' one-liner for the Democrats, and
the 'rightest'one-line about the Republicans, because that conclusion shows
us the epitamy of your 'intolerance.'

By the way, you did not finish the word, it's pro-socialism.

Sue Clark

From an editorial during the Democratic Convention..

'These are difficult times for Casey.  He is a man who loves the Democratic
Party.  He is a two-term governor who won the last time out with 68% of the
vote and won every county.  Yet at this convention, in a pique of political
correctness, organizers (feminists) shunted him and the Pennsylvania dele-
gation to a remote corner of Madison Square Garden because he has the courage
to speak against abortion.' - Phil Joyce from 'Democrats Shut Out Large Part
of America'
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