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LYNCHBURG, Va., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Constitution Party Presidential Candidate Michael Peroutka to Speak in Lynchburg
October 30, 2004
Friday October 29, 8:05 am ET
LYNCHBURG, Va., Oct. 29 /PRNewswire/ -- - Constitution Party Presidential candidate Michael A. Peroutka will speak at 10:30 A.M. on Saturday, October 30, at Bahnsen Hall on the campus of Christ College, 434 Rivermont Avenue in Lynchburg. Mr. Peroutka's visit is open to the public. For information, call the administrative office of Christ College, 434-528-9552.
Mr. Peroutka will speak for approximately thirty minutes on his themes of God, Family, and Republic -- addressing the currently proposed "Marriage Amendment" to the U.S. Constitution, homosexual activism, abortion, and the GOP's handling of these issues. His comments will be followed by a question and answer session.
Candidate Peroutka shares the Constitution Party ticket with Dr. Chuck Baldwin -- pastor, author, columnist, and currently popular Florida-based, conservative radio talk-show host. They will be third on the Virginia ballot, having turned in over 21,000 signatures to the Virginia State Board of Elections on August 20. For ballot access, 10,000 signatures of registered voters are required. The other notable "third party" candidate, Ralph Nader, was rejected for a line on the ballot because not enough signatures his party submitted were valid.
The Constitution Party was formed in 1992 as the U.S. Taxpayers Party by a coalition of independent parties with common goals of limiting the Federal government to its constitutional boundaries and restoring civil government to the principles upon which the U.S. was founded.
In 1999, at its national convention for the 2000 elections, delegates changed the party name to the "Constitution Party," believing that the new name better reflected its primary goals. A party statement says that it is "the only party which is completely pro-life, anti-homosexual rights, pro-American sovereignty, anti-globalist, anti-deindustrialization, anti- unchecked immigration, pro-second amendment, and against the constantly increasing expansion of unlawful police laws, in favor of a strong national defense and opposed to unconstitutional interventionism."
A long-time champion of the principles espoused by the Constitution Party, Mr. Peroutka accepted the party's nomination to run for president in June at its national convention in Valley Forge, PA. Co-founder of The Institute on the Constitution, a nationwide program teaching the doctrines incorporated in the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, Mr. Peroutka has been a partner for eighteen years in a Maryland law firm. He says that he was called to public service at an early age, supporting the right to life, the right to keep and bear arms, and other Constitutional causes. He resigned from a position with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services when he recognized that none of the programs on which he was working were Constitutionally permissible, he says. Mr. Peroutka is a graduate of Loyola College in Maryland and the University of Baltimore School of Law, is Chairman of the Constitution Party of Maryland, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Constitution Party National Committee. He also serves on the Board of Trustees of The Conservative Caucus Research, Analysis and Education Foundation. He and his wife, Diane, live in Millersville, Maryland, with their three children.
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