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Christian Solidarity Party

  • 09-12-2007 8:59pm
    #1
    Registered Users Posts: 9,028 ✭✭✭


    Anyone have any idea of their policies?

    SO far, I only know that they are pro-life

    and have this fantastic broadcast(One take)

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=MgmamxyUZ7I


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 27,857 ✭✭✭✭Dave!


    LOL... the sniggering is quality :p


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 43,045 ✭✭✭✭Nevyn


    They were the natural law party, christian union, as well as youth defense/spuc/mother and child.

    http://www.rte.ie/news/elections2007/christiansolidarity.html
    Number of Sitting TDs: 0
    Candidates: 7
    Website: none
    Telephone: 01 8783529
    National Headquarters: 14 North Frederick Street, Dublin 1.

    HISTORY

    The Christian Solidarity Party was founded by Gerard Casey and first put candidates forward for a General Election in 1997.

    The party campaigns on traditional values but has failed to gather a mass following. The party is dedicated to the causes of life, the family and the community.

    19 candidates (some in more than one constituency) ran for the Christian Solidarity Party in the 2002 election but not to any great success. They spent €12,284.71 on the campaign.


    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Solidarity_Party
    The Christian Solidarity Party (Irish: An Comhar Críostaí) is a political party in the Republic of Ireland without parliamentary representation. It was founded by Gerard Casey and first took part in the 1997 general election.

    It is robustly orthodox to Roman Catholic teachings and policies, and its main policies are based upon traditional, and unequivocal, pro-life natalism. It is against gay marriage and gay adoption. The party describes itself as follows: "The Christian Solidarity Party is dedicated to the causes of Life, the Family and the Community. The CSP promotes policies that safeguard the value of human life from conception to natural death, that support the position of the family as the fundamental unit group of society, and that allow human communities to flourish in a manner consistent with human dignity."


    They often have leaflets and forums at the back of masses or handed out to mass goers as the leave, they had mass submissions to the review on the family in law which were typed submissions and signed by people again leaving mass who were told sign to protect the 'family'.


  • Moderators, Regional East Moderators Posts: 21,502 Mod ✭✭✭✭Agent Smith


    pro life, good

    all the rest , bad


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 23,556 ✭✭✭✭Sir Digby Chicken Caesar


    pro life, bad

    all the rest, bad


  • Registered Users Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    Natural Law party. Are they the ones who believed they could levitate?


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  • Registered Users Posts: 22,124 ✭✭✭✭Akrasia


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    They were the natural law party, christian union, as well as youth defense/spuc/mother and child.

    http://www.rte.ie/news/elections2007/christiansolidarity.html
    You'd think the fact that they have to keep changing their identity would be some kind of a clue that nobody likes them?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,777 ✭✭✭✭The Corinthian


    They would be the most 'normal' of the Catholic conservative groups in Ireland with traditionally many of their people coming from academia. By 'normal' I mean that other groups at that end of the spectrum tend to be populated by complete nuts, while (whether you agree or disagree with their politics) the CSP would at least be both better educated and clinically sane.

    Of course this sanity does not mean that they have a clue, which would be a different matter altogether.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 16,165 ✭✭✭✭brianthebard


    They're only in it for the lolz tbh.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 415 ✭✭Gobán Saor


    Thaedydal wrote: »
    They were the natural law party, christian union, as well as youth defense/spuc/mother and child.

    Bit of confusion here, I think. The CSP never had anything to do with the Natural Law Party, who as Hobbes suggested, are indeed the levitating or "yogic flying" chaps. www.natural-law-party.org.uk

    Confusion is understandable as "Natural Law" in an Irish sense is generally taken to refer to the legal doctrine that there exists a Natural Law, which is divinely revealed and which is superior to all man made law. This concept is largely a Catholic doctrine developed by St Thomas Acquinas and is strongly reflected in Bunreacht na hEireann - particularly in the family and education clauses. Taken to its extreme, it was held by Justice O'Hanlon that the people did not have the right to amend the Constitution in a manner that offended the divinely revealed Natural Law. Fortunately this view was not shared by the Supreme Court.

    In this sense I'm sure the CSP would be strong believers in Natural Law but yogic fliers they ain't! Pity, it would have made for a nice party policital broadcast:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,731 ✭✭✭DadaKopf


    Hobbes wrote: »
    Natural Law party. Are they the ones who believed they could levitate?
    'Dem bones, 'dem bones need calcium,
    'Dem bones, 'dem bones need calcium,
    'Dem bones, 'dem bones need calcium,
    And that's a natural law.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,636 ✭✭✭SeanW


    They're basically the Irish Catholic version of the American Evangelicals. I'm not a big fan of the results of Election 2007 but at least we had the good sense as a nation not to elect any of these whackjobs.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,057 ✭✭✭Wacker


    They would be the most 'normal' of the Catholic conservative groups in Ireland with traditionally many of their people coming from academia.

    Gerard Casey was the head of the Philosophy department while I was in UCD. He is a great lecturer and a really nice guy.
    I would probably disagree with every single policy of his Christian Solidarity Party though.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 86 ✭✭Tenderloins1


    This lad stood in 10 different Local Electoral Areas in the 2009 local elections…. Top vote he got was 143, lowest was 6.

    callanan07a.jpg

    Rest of leaflet posted HERE



    A leaflet for Paul O'Loughlin who is in the Youtube clip
    ol07a.jpg
    rest of Leaflet HERE


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    pro life, good

    all the rest , bad

    Pro life, what a ridiculous term. So someone who disagrees with someone who ocnsiders themselves pro life is either anti life or pro death?
    As fair as I know David Quinn and John Waters consider themsleves good catlicks and would call themselves pro life but they supported the war in Iraq.


  • Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,780 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Old thread is old.


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