Ron Paul in Values Voter Presidential Debate, sponsored by numerous value-based and faith-based organizations
On Abortion:
No tax funding for organizations that promote abortion
Q: The Mexico City Policy states that as a condition for a foreign organization to receive federal funds, they will neither “perform nor actively promote abortion.” Would you work to apply this Mexico City policy to organizations within the US?
HUCKABEE: Are we being asked to apply a Mexican law to the US?
Q: It’s the principle of not giving our tax dollars to organizations within our country that actively promote or provide abortions. It’s an American law.
BROWNBACK: This is Ronald Reagan’
policy that we wouldn’t use federal funds to support organizations that promote abortions overseas.
HUNTER: It’s actually a UN policy.
KEYES: Actually, it was a policy of the Mexico City Population Conference. I was the deputy chairman. I actually
negotiated the language into the final resolution at that conference.
Q: I want to know, will you defund Planned Parenthood?
- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: Yes.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
Source: [Xref Keyes] 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Abortion:
Delivered 4000 babies; & assuredly life begins at conception
Q: What will you do to restore legal protection to the unborn?A: As an O.B. doctor of thirty years, and having delivered 4,000 babies, I can assure you life begins at conception. I am legally responsible for the unborn, no matter what
I do, so there’s a legal life there. The unborn has inheritance rights, and if there’s an injury or a killing, there is a legal entity. There is no doubt about it.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Abortion:
Sanctity of Life Act: remove federal jurisdiction
I’m surprised that I don’t have more co-sponsors for my Sanctity of Life Act. It removes the jurisdiction from the federal courts & allows the states to pass protection to the unborn. Instead of waiting years for a Constitutional Amendment, this would
happen immediately, by majority vote in the Congress and a president’s signature. It’s a much easier way to accomplish this, by following what our Constitution directs us. Instead of new laws, let’s just use what we have & pass this type of legislation.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Abortion:
Nominate only judges who refuse to legislate from the bench
Q: Will you nominate only judges who are demonstrably faithful to the judicial role of following only the text of the Constitution, and who not only refuse to legislate from the bench, but are committed to reversing prior court decision where activist
judges strayed from the judicial role and legislated from the bench?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: Yes.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Abortion:
Save “snowflake babies”: no experiments on frozen embryos
Q: Our children were adopted as embryos. They were snowflake babies, which means that for the first part of their lives, they were frozen embryos. Can you look at them now and honestly tell me that it would be
OK with you if someone used them in medical experiments and snuffed out their little lives? Is that your position?- HUCKABEE: No.
- TANCREDO: No.
- COX: No.
- BROWNBACK: No.
- PAUL: No.
- HUNTER: No.
- KEYES: No.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Budget & Economy:
Can’t legislate economic fairness; so make government small
You can’t legislate economic fairness, like so many want to do. Freedom means freedom. It means the government should be very small. So, we need to decide what we’re gonna do. Are we going to live within the law, or are we going to pretend the
government can take care of everything possible? We are now nine trillion dollars in debt, we have a dollar that’s crashing, and we keep financing this by taxing, borrowing, and then, what do we resort to? We resort to printing the money!
We should look to the Constitution. We should make sure that we get rid of our central bank, the Federal Reserve, and have only gold and silver as legal tender.
This is the reason our government gets so big, because we give them license to steal, license to inflate, license to tax, and license to borrow, and politicians will always do it.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Civil Rights:
No legislation to counteract the homosexual agenda
Q: What do you intend to do to counteract the homosexual agenda?A: If you want to change people, you change them through persuasion, through family values and church values, but you can’t do it through legislation because force doesn’t work.
But if homosexual groups want to enforce their way on us, there’s no right to do that, either. At the same time, you should eradicate all these hate laws. They indicate that some people would receive a different penalty on others.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Civil Rights:
No affirmative action for any group
All rights are individuals. We do not get our rights because we belong to a group. Whether it’s homosexuals, women, minorities, it leads us astray. You don’t get your rights belonging to your group. A group can’t force themselves on anybody else.
So there should be no affirmative action for any group.This violates the principle on the importance of the individual, and confuses us about the importance of individual rights, which is the purpose of the Constitution. Defend our individual rights.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Civil Rights:
No need for Marriage Amendment; DOMA is enough
Q: Will you support a federal marriage amendment, and what else will you do to protect the institution of marriage?A: I think the best thing the president can do is set a good example, and I would start with having been married
50 years, and proud of it. I believe, also, that I do not see any need for another constitutional amendment. I think we have fallen into a trap that we have to redefine marriage. We’re on the defensive, defining marriage. Why don’t you just tell them
to look it up in the dictionary, to find out what a marriage says? For federal legal purposes, the Defense of Marriage Act is proper. It takes care of all the problems. If you have to have rules and regulations, put it at the state level, like the
Constitution says. But you know, marriage only came about and getting licenses only came about in recent history for health reasons. Marriage is a church function. It’s not a state function. I don’t think you need a license to get married.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Civil Rights:
First Amendment was written for controversial speech
Q: Many libertarians oppose laws against same-sex marriages, prostitution and illegal drugs. What is your view?A: If you believe in liberty, you are a libertarian. The best libertarians we’ve ever had in this country were our Founding Fathers.
They believed in civil liberties, economic liberties, and they believed in a non-intervention foreign policy.
But, the inference here about marriage, and prostitution, and drugs--they never addressed it. There’s no constitutional authority, to deal
with those problems. But there’s no prohibitions for the states to do it.
If you’re willing to use the strong arm of government to regulate things that are negative that you don’t like and you find abhorrent, you set the stage for regulating your
religion, your schools, and everything else.
The First Amendment wasn’t written to protect non-controversial speech. It was written to protect controversial speech, so we don’t lose our right to go to church and run our schools. This is key!
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Crime:
Opposes “hate crimes” legislation
Q: I was arrested, jailed, and was charged under Pennsylvania’s hate crimes law. I faced up to 47 years in prison plus a $90,000 fine for attempting to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ at a homosexual pride event with those who are trapped in bondage to
that lifestyle. If elected, can we count on you to veto any so-called “hate crimes” legislation?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: Yes.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
Source: [Xref Brownback] 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Crime:
Not appropriate to prosecute all illegal adult pornography
Q: The Bush Justice Department is reticent to prosecute any but the worst hardcore pornographers--and most often, only the smaller companies that produce such filth. Meanwhile, hardcore pornographers have found their way into major hotel chains.
Would your administration prosecute all illegal adult pornography, including so-called white-collar pornographers?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: No.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Drugs:
$500B on War on Drugs since 1970s has been a total failure
On the issue of drugs, we have spent nearly five hundred billion dollars on the War on Drugs, since the 1970s. Total failure. Some day, we have to admit it. Today, we have the federal government going into states that have legal medical marijuana,
arresting people--undermining state laws--arresting people who use marijuana when they’re dying with cancer and AIDS, and it’s done with, as a compassionate conservative. And it doesn’t work.What it does, it removes the ability to states to do their
things, and also introduces the idea that it’s the federal government that will get to decide whether we get to take vitamins, and alternative medical care, or whatever.
Most of our history, believe it or not, had no drug laws. Prohibition has been an absolute failure for alcohol. Drug addiction is a medical problem. It’s not a problem of the law.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Education:
Equal funds for abstinence as contraceptive-based education
Q: I’m 18. One in four sexually-active teens has a sexually-transmitted disease. Meanwhile, 2.5 million American teens like me have taken public abstinence pledges, to save sex until marriage--the only 100%-proven effective solution and prevention for
STDs. Would you bring abstinence-education funding onto equal ground with contraceptive-based education?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: Yes.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
Source: [Xref Cox] 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Education:
Don’t impeach judges for decisions on legislature prayers
Q: Recently, a federal judge ordered the Indiana legislature to censor their prayers. Specifically, the federal judge ordered the Indiana legislature to never allow anyone to offer an invocation prayer in Jesus’ name.
Will you as president consider impeachment a possible remedy for this judicial activism?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: No.
- HUNTER: No.
- KEYES: Yes.
Source: [Xref Hunter] 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Education:
Present scientific facts that support creationism
Q: Academic freedom is threatened when questioning the theory of evolution. An Iowa State astronomer was denied tenure because of his work in intelligent design in May 2007. Censoring alternative theories--dogmatic indoctrination--has replaced scientific
inquiry. Will you encourage a more open approach to the presentation of scientific facts that contradict the theory of evolution?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: Yes.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
Source: [Xref Hunter] 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Education:
Tax-credited programs for Christian schooling
Q: I’m 17, and I’m the product of school choice. In the public schools I repeated the 7th grade three times, because of my deficiency in math & English. My mother then sent me to New Generation, a Christian school. After one year, my math improved 5
grade levels, and my English improved 3. Will you support school choice for other students like me with similar tax-credit programs?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: Yes.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
Source: [Xref Keyes] 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Foreign Policy:
Avoid ratifying Law of the Sea Treaty
Q: Pres. Reagan rejected the Law of the Sea Treaty, because it gives International Seabed Authority dictatorial power to regulate all oceans and the riches at the bottom of the oceans, plus the power the levy international taxes, and it would make the US
subject to the decisions of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Would you urge the Senate not to ratify this treaty?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: Yes.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
Source: [Xref Keyes] 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Foreign Policy:
Don’t pressure Israel to give up land for promise of peace
Q: Past presidents have expected Israel to give up land, not for peace but for the promise of peace. With this mindset, Pres. Bush introduced the “roadmap” in 2003, yet 60 terrorist acts are attempted & 300 rockets fall every month in Israel. Will you
stand behind Israel to not give up land for unfulfilled promises of peace, even in the face of opposition of European & Arab countries?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK:Yes.
- PAUL:Yes.
- HUNTER:Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Foreign Policy:
Not US role to monitor eradication of legal slavery in Sudan
Q: I was made a slave during the government of Sudan’s war against black Christians of southern Sudan. I am a slave no longer, but today want to free tens of thousands of my brothers and sisters who remain in chattel slavery in Sudan. Would you today
endorse the creation of a commission to monitor the eradication of slavery in Sudan, where the slavery of a man is legal?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: No.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Free Trade:
Inappropriate to impose sanctions for persecuting Christians
Q: Today, Christians are being beaten, jailed, and expelled throughout the Muslim world. In Saudi Arabia, no church buildings are permitted, yet Saudi extremist Wahhabis have built hundreds of mosques in the US with funding from Saudi Arabia.
If elected, will you take action to protest these gross injustices and persecution by denying visas or imposing trade sanctions?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: No.
- HUNTER: No.
- KEYES: Yes.
Source: [Xref Hunter] 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Free Trade:
No NAFTA Superhighway from Canada to Mexico
Q: As president, do you support the NAFTA “Superhighway” presently under construction from Mexico to Canada, portions of which shall be under foreign control?
- HUCKABEE: No.
- TANCREDO: No.
- COX: No.
- BROWNBACK: No.
- PAUL: No.
- HUNTER: No.
- KEYES: No.
Source: [Xref Hunter] 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Free Trade:
No North American Union; no WTO; no UN
Q: Will you abolish all plans to promote economic integration of North America?A: Not only do I not want a North American Union, I want us out of the U.N., the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, NAFTA and CAFTA. NAFTA has nothing to do for free trade.
It’s a pretense to lower tariffs, but it’s a reason to go talk to the WTO to raise tariffs. We need free trade. That’s very, very important. But you don’t get that by world government.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Free Trade:
China trade not contingent on human rights & product safety
Q: Sarah Lu was forced to work in labor camps for six years, for the crime of being a Christian house church leader. Thousands of prisoners of conscience are forced to manufacture items that stock our American shelves. Would you make future trade with
China contingent on them measurably improving their record on religious freedom & human rights?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: No.
- HUNTER: Absolutely. Yes. Good question.
- KEYES: Yes.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Government Reform:
Disallow lawsuits that stop public officials invoking God
Q: Would you support the Constitution Restoration Act that prevents federal courts from hearing lawsuits brought to stop public officials from acknowledging God in such ways as the Pledge of Allegiance, public display of the Ten Commandments, & public
prayer?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: Yes.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
HUNTER: At the first Constitutional Convention in 1787, they began each session with a prayer with the supplication to God.
Source: [Xref Hunter] 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Government Reform:
Constitution was written to restrain the federal government
The most important promise a president makes is his promise to obey the Constitution. In realizing this, we know that the Constitution was written in order to restrain the federal government, but was meant to retain the rights and privileges &
obligations to the states and to the people. Today, we have drifted a long way from that, and now we have jurisdictional fights over what we ought to do.A free country is designed for individuals to deal with a subject of virtue and excellence.
Once we defer to the government to get involved in worrying about our virtue and our excellence and perfect, fair economies, it is done at the sacrifice of liberty.
If we do that and we sacrifice that liberty and the job of virtue and excellence is taken over by the government, you can only do that through tyranny.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Government Reform:
We are drifting rather rapidly into a totalitarian state
Right now, we are drifting rather rapidly into a totalitarian state. We have been too willing to sacrifice our liberties for this so-called sense of security. We need more faith that the right of habeas corpus should be protected, and we have to
understand the National I.D. Card is not going to work. That only registers and regulates the American people, and we don’t need secret prisons. We don’t need torture. We need American values and traditions. We need to believe in ourselves.And
I would like to reiterate the true doctrine of war written by Christianity, the doctrine of just war, is that you do it only under certain circumstances. You don’t do it for UN resolutions. You don’t do it for weapons that don’t exist.
You need to do it with a moral justification. If we would have declared a war, we wouldn’t be debating the war now. It would be over, and we’d all be a lot better off, and we would have 5,000 Americans still alive, and 30,000 uninjured!
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Health Care:
Oppose mandated health insurance and universal coverage
Q: Nations with socialized medicine reduced the cost of their healthcare systems by restricting patients’ access that needed treatments and healthcare rationing. Will you protect the availability of needed medical care by opposing current efforts to
subject Americans to government-mandated health insurance and universal coverage?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: Yes.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
Source: [Xref Huckabee] 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Health Care:
Insurance reward for avoiding tobacco, alcohol, obesity
Q: Healthcare consumes up to 17% of our GNP. It appears that lifestyles that are based in moral principles would reduce healthcare expenditures. Would you support a private healthcare approach that rewards behavior that promotes moral lifestyles--
that is, avoiding alcohol and tobacco consumption, as well as obesity reduction, exercise and nutrition that promotes health?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: Yes.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
Source: [Xref Huckabee] 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Health Care:
Not government’s role to protect people like Terri Schiavo
Q: My name is Bobby Schindler, and I’m with the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation. My beloved sister Terri Schiavo was starved & dehydrated to death, in the land of abundance. The world watched because she was disabled & unable to speak for herself.
Would you support legislation that would protect the cognitively disabled & vulnerable people from having their food & water taken away?- HUCKABEE:Yes.
- TANCREDO:Yes.
- COX:Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: No.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES:Yes.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Homeland Security:
Protect military chaplains’ right to pray in preferred faith
Q: I’m a former Navy chaplain who was punished for praying in Jesus’ name, 1 of 68 chaplains now suing the Secretary of the Navy. Would you sign an executive order to protect a military chaplain’s right to pray according to the dictates of his conscience
--and enforce the law that’s been on the books since 1860--to protect military chaplain’s right to pray according to their faith?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: Yes.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
Source: [Xref Keyes] 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Homeland Security:
Violating habeas corpus will be used against us
If you are going to regulate Islamic thinking in this country, be careful, because all the rules you set will be used against Christians. So, protect civil liberties. If you use the violation of civil liberties when it comes to habeas corpus
and secrecy, we are going to suffer from this. If we could have done something before 9/11, we should have gotten the government out of the way on regulating our airlines. We should have had more respect for the Constitution.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Jobs:
No “sexual orientation” in Employment Non-Discrimination Act
Q: I own a motion picture film lab that came under fire by the Arlington Human Rights Commission because I refused to duplicate objectionable pro-homosexual material. Would you protect business owners like me from being forced to violate our moral
conscience by vetoing the so-called “Employment Non-Discrimination Act” that would add the phrase “sexual orientation” into federal law?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO:Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK:Yes.
- PAUL:Yes.
- HUNTER:Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
Source: [Xref Keyes] 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Principles & Values:
Washington shouldn’t dictate to us our personal behavior
We have resorted to going to Washington for everything. We cannot go to Washington to dictate to us how we improve our personal behavior. You don’t dictate, you don’t legislate virtue.
In a free society, you do that from people, from your family, your friends, and your neighbors, but not in the federal government.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Social Security:
Personal retirement accounts allow investing in one’s future
Q: Current estimates for the unfunded liabilities of our Social Security system are as high as $10 trillion. Would you revive Pres. Bush’s attempt to introduce personal retirement accounts as a way to reform Social Security, thus allowing all Americans,
particularly low-wage workers & the self-employed, an investment in their future & ownership in the inheritance they pass on?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: Yes.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
Source: [Xref Huckabee] 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Technology:
No Fairness Doctrine: no equal time if morally objectionable
Q: As a Christian radio talk-show host, I don’t want to be forced to broadcast morally objectionable material or give equal time to opponents of our faith. Would you veto any legislation that contains language of the so called “Fairness Doctrine?”
- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: Yes.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
HUNTER: The liberals want to be able to cut into every conservative talk show [because they can’t get people to] turn on the dial.
Source: [Xref Hunter] 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On Technology:
Don’t apply broadcast indecency rules to cable networks
Q: Currently the broadcast indecency rules only apply to local broadcast stations. Do you support and believe that broadcast indecency rules should be expanded to cable networks as well?
- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO: Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK: Yes.
- PAUL: No.
- HUNTER: Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On War & Peace:
Radicals come to kill us because we occupy their lands
Q: What’s your strategy to protect our American way of life from the designs of radical Islam?A: We indeed do have a problem, but if we go at this incorrectly, we are going to do more damage to ourselves than we are to our enemies. We have to
understand the motives of those who come here & kill us. If we don’t understand that, we are not going to win this fight. They come here & kill us because we occupy their lands, and they rationally reason [that] we have to do something about it.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On War & Peace:
Preemptive war is against Christian doctrine of just war
Q: Tell us about your personal faith, and what it means to your life.A: I get to my God through Christ. Christ, to me, is a Man of peace. He is for peace, He is not for war. He doesn’t justify preemptive war. I strongly believe that there is a
Christian doctrine of just war. And I believe this nation has drifted from that. No matter what the rationales are, we have drifted from that, and it’s very, very dangerous, and I see in many ways being unchristian.
Christ is for love, and forgiveness, and turning the other cheek for peace. And to justify what we do in the name of Christianity I think is very dangerous, and not part of what Christianity is all about. Christ came here for spiritual reasons,
not secular war and boundaries and geography. And yet, we are now dedicating so much of our aggressive activity in the name of God, but God, he is the Prince of Peace. That is what I see from my God and through Christ. I vote for peace.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
On War & Peace:
No US role in autonomy for Christians in Iraq Nineveh region
Q: US policy has thus far failed Christians & other non-Muslim minorities in Iraq; their very existence is threatened. This would be a tragic and ironic outcome of Iraq’s liberation. Do you support their political goals by endorsing the creation of an
autonomous administrative area in their ancestral homeland of the Nineveh plains, as permitted by Article 125 of the Iraqi Constitution?- HUCKABEE: Yes.
- TANCREDO:Yes.
- COX: Yes.
- BROWNBACK:Yes.
- PAUL: No.
- HUNTER:Yes.
- KEYES: Yes.
Source: 2007 GOP Values Voter Presidential Debate
Sep 17, 2007
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