The Tea Party must look for conservative candidates, Bryan Fischer, director of issue analysis for government and public policy for the American Family Association, told an audience of about 50 people at a Tax Day rally on the steps of the Lowndes County Courthouse.
“The problem we have right now is we have too many politicians who have not read, believed or obeyed what”s in these two books,” he began, referring to the Bible and the U.S. Constitution. “The Bible is the foundation for life, and the Constitution is the foundation for the republic. The Tea Party movement is bringing people back to the Constitution.”
“I think we need to be very clear in what we are looking for in candidates,” he said, noting candidates must be social conservatives, who “agree with the founding fathers” and their Judeo-Christian principles.
The purpose of the Constitution is to “bind government down to protect the inalienable rights given to us by our Creator,” he explained. “We need lawmakers, statesmen, who believe marriage is the institution of one man and one woman. We need lawmakers who believe all human life is sacred from the moment of conception to the moment of death.
“It is worse for a country to be morally and spiritually bankrupt than to be financially bankrupt,” he added.
The Tea Party also needs “fiscal conservatives,” Fischer said, criticizing President Barack Obama and recent health care legislation.
“Congress has no moral, legal, ethical or constitutional authority to take over the entire health care system of the United States,” he added.
And “national security conservatives” are needed.
“We must have statesmen who understand the true nature of fundamentalist Islam,” Fischer said, calling the religion “dark, dangerous” and noting, Obama “does not understand the danger” and “is leaving us virtually undefended.”
Lastly, the Tea Party needs “Constitutionally conservative” candidates, he stressed.
“These are like the rules of baseball,” he said of the Constitution. “They”re written by somebody else and it”s the job of the umpire to apply the rules written by somebody else.”
“We need to have lawmakers that will return us to the Constitution,” Fischer concluded. “It”s time for a regime change in Washington, D.C.”
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Bryan Fischer, director of issue analysis for government and public policy for the American Family Association, speaks at the Tea Party rally. Photo by: Kelly Tippett
