Posted under Constitution Party & Pro-Life & Virgil Goode
Below is an e-mail from Ricardo Davis:
Atlanta, GA – Former U.S. Congressman Virgil Goode, the Constitution Party’s presidential candidate, signed Georgia Right to Life’s “Personhood Pledge” – the gold standard of a candidate’s commitment to defend the sanctity of life. In doing so he is the only certified presidential candidate in Georgia to do so, giving Georgians who value the unalienable right to life an opportunity to vote for a candidate that supports their convictions.
Unlike any other presidential candidate, Virgil Goode has a history of standing on principle to defend the sanctity of life at the federal level. In signing the GRTL Personhood Pledge, Goode affirms his support of legislation that would ensure that the civil rights of the elderly, the mentally and physically handicapped, and all children before birth at any stage are protected by law.
In 2007 Congressman Goode was a co-sponsor of the Right to Life Act (HR 618) that “would implement equal protection under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution for the right to life of each born and preborn human person.” The Act declared that the right to life guaranteed by the Constitution is vested in each and every human being, and defines “human being” to encompass all stages of life.
In the previous year National Right to Life gave Congressman Goode a 100% pro-life rating. During his tenure in the U.S. House of Representatives Goode was a pro-life champion voting to outlaw human cloning, transport of minors across state lines to obtain elective abortions, embryonic stem cell research, partial birth abortion, and federal funding to organizations that provide abortion services, counseling or advocacy.
State Party Chairman Ricardo Davis noted, “As a long-time pro-life activist who is now working to build a 100% pro-life political party in Georgia, I realize that to be successful the party has to build from the ground up. Because of Georgia’s election laws Virgil is a certified write-in candidate, so all votes for him will be counted and reported. This is the ground-floor opportunity – and the goal is to get two percent of the vote statewide. This realistic goal lays the foundation for statewide ballot access and fosters support for like-minded state and local candidates in the next two years. Politically savvy Democrat and Republican voters here in Georgia understand that two percent of the vote will not impact the presidential vote in our state, so Virgil’s candidacy is the prime opportunity for voters who highly value the sanctity of life and the defense of marriage to vote for a candidate whose election results can lay the foundation for greater gains for these issues in Georgia.”
Nate Weinstein on 27 Oct 2012 at 1:18 am #
I wish Goode would sign a pledge to put troops back on the ground in Iraq and find the WMDs that he knows are there, if he did that I might consider supporting him over Romney.
Nate Weinstein on 27 Oct 2012 at 3:29 am #
There is no argument with Nate Weinstein here, only agreement.
Timothy Yung on 27 Oct 2012 at 7:17 am #
He should have signed this pledge at the beginning instead of waiting so long.
Virgil Goode Signs Personhood Pledge | Conservative Heritage Times | American Political Blogs Watch on 27 Oct 2012 at 4:02 pm #
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C Bowen (Hawthorne) on 29 Oct 2012 at 12:27 am #
Did Goode vote for Bush budgets that funded Planned Parenthood–did he apologize if he did? Should pro-life operations be taken seriously?
RedPhillips on 29 Oct 2012 at 2:30 am #
“Should pro-life operations be taken seriously?”
It depends. Georgia Right to Life is more hardcore than the National Right to Life.
Nate Weinstein on 30 Oct 2012 at 4:58 am #
Red,
This is true. Georgia earned a lot of respect from me when conservative family man Newt Gingrich won the primary in a landslide with fellow conservative right to lifer Mitt Romney coming in a distant, but respectable second. I was glad to see abortionist Ron Paul coming in dead last. It sickens me to see how well that confederate kook did in certain racist anti-semitic ant-war pockets of the country, but I can safely say that Georgia is not one of those places.
Darrell B on 31 Oct 2012 at 2:31 am #
Red, I have seen this e-mail on many blogs. Can you provide proof of Goode signing this pledge and the language of the pledge?
We would like to support him but need some evidence.
RedPhillips on 31 Oct 2012 at 3:26 am #
Darrell, it is on the Georgia Constitution Party Facebook page.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Constitution-Party-of-Georgia/296011293046
But there was really no reason to doubt. This is a direct press release from the CP of Georgia. I don’t think they would send out a press release about something they were just making up.