Pat Buchanan on Civil Rights 2000 Reform Candidate for President

Sub-sections under Civil Rights:
• Gay Rights
• Other issues under Civil Rights

31 states have banned gay marriage; none have approved it

First, they have Scripture on their side. Did not Christ say to the Pharisees: "For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife, and they two shall be in one flesh." Second, it is the accommodationist faiths that are the dying faiths.

Third, dissenters have the country on their side. Thirty-one states have voted "No" to homosexual marriage. Not one has voted to approve. When the Washington, D.C., city council voted to recognize same-sex marriages from other states, the Board of Elections and Ethics refused to submit the issue to a referendum. Voters have no right to authorize discrimination, said the board. The real fear is that, as in California, black churches would turn out their flocks and reverse the city council's decision.

Founders believed in equality of rights, nor diversity

To extract "all men are created equal" from the context in which it was written and assert it as an endorsement of an egalitarian society is to distort what Jefferson wrote and what the men of Philadelphia believed. Lest we forget, this was a declaration of INDEPENDENCE!

From birth, American was the Party of Liberty. Egalite was what the French Revolution claimed to be about. No American war was fought for egalitarian ends, postwar propaganda notwithstanding. The Constitution and Bill of Rights are the foundational documents of the republic and the organic documents of American union. And the word "equality" does not appear in either. Nor does the word "democracy."

White males bear entire burden of reverse discrimination

However, the black community has since grown to where the ratio is five-to-one. More critically, Hispanics, though they never suffered slavery or endured Jim Crow, have been made beneficiaries of affirmative action. And there are now fifty million Hispanics. Add in Asians, Native Americans, and Pacific Islanders and there are fewer than two white Americans for every person of color. And, now, there is affirmative action for women. This leaves white males, a shrinking third of the nation, to bear almost the entire burden of reverse discrimination. This is not a formula for social peace.

When 1920s immigration stopped, Black America advanced

Women are not endowed by nature with capitalism's fierceness

Homosexuals "have declared war upon nature," Buchanan often said. "Homosexuality, like other vices, is an assault upon the nature of the individuals as God made him."

Take country back from ACLU; allow school prayer & gay bans

Buchanan said the “they” in the ad refers to the ACLU and “their fellow travelers.”

Admired civil rights movement, but MLK was “divisive”

A: [I said that in] a memo in 1969 whether we should recognize the day or go down and see Mrs. King, and I suggested we not see Mrs. King. I said, ‘Martin Luther King was one of the most divisive men. Some see him as the messiah of the nation, others think he’s a dreadful person. He is a divisive figure.’ Look, I knew Martin Luther King. I am the only candidate who was at the march on Washington. I was in the Lincoln Memorial. I was in Mississippi covering the civil rights demonstrations.

Q: And what were your views when you were covering the demonstrations?

A: There were things about the civil rights movement I greatly admired. There were things that went on [that] I thought were appalling. It had moments of greatness. Like every great movement, the civil rights movement had things that were attractive and things that were not. And for my history, friends, we make no apologies.

Abolish quotas; all learn English

Legal gambling is a “destructive vice”

End racial busing, quotas, & contract set-asides

Close NEA to stop desecration of Christian images

Racial & gender entitlements are Govt-sponsored prejudice

Color-blind laws: end trendy bigotry of diversity

Tear out diversity programs, root and branch

Theodore Roosevelt said we have to get away from this idea of “hyphenated Americans.” Justice Scalia said the government in the US should recognize only one race, that is American. This is why I promise you that I will tear out this whole diversity program root and branch-Affirmative Action, discrimination, and al racial set asides-they will all be gone.

Vermont civil unions are ‘absurd’

Homosexuality is “the love that will not shut up.”

Gay pride equated with moral decline and cultural decadence

Condemns gays, women in combat, and abortion

Opposes gay rights agenda in its entirety

A: I don’t apologize for my views with regards to gay rights. I oppose the gay rights agenda in its entirety. I was saying that tongue-in-cheek. Third, I did say that AIDS is in effect what happens to people as a consequence of unnatural and immoral sex. And, as you know, homosexual conduct is the primary--or was the primary way by which AIDS was spread. It was a truthful statement.

First to demand government deal with AIDS epidemic

All lifestyles are not equal; some ideas are wrong

A: On your point about all Americans are equal, there’s no doubt all of us have the same constitutional rights. I agree. However, I think a real problem America has is we’ve taken this idea of equality and extended it so beyond where it belongs. All lifestyles are not equal. All ideas are not equal. Some are wrong; some are right. And this is what America needs more than anything else; it needs truth. Now when it comes to myself and the leader of the gay rights movement nationally, [we] have identical constitutional rights. But I do not believe their ideas are equal to mine, or that lifestyle is equal to a traditional married lifestyle. And we’ve gotta stand up for truth even when it’s unpopular and even when it’s painful. Otherwise, your society breaks down.

No gay VP; no gays in Cabinet; it’s “a disorder”

Would oppose a gay president “with everything I had”

AIDS is retribution; women can’t compete