Christian Falangist Party of America
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The Christian Falangist Party of America (or CFPA) is a Christian Right political party in the United States. The Party was founded in Philadelphia on September 14, 1985, the third anniversary of the assassination of Bashir Gemayel, whose Lebanese Kataeb Party provided the inspiration for the CFPA. Since that time, it has yet to field any candidates for office. A 2004 presidential write-in bid by then chairman Kurt Weber-Heller was abandoned when Weber-Heller left the party to join the Franciscan Order.
The Christian Falangist logos are: a cross with four equal perpendicular arms, an adaptation of the arms of the Kataeb (a red, typical dimension cross with a triangular slice removed from the descending limb). This cross was originally used by the French crusader, Guy de Lusignan, and; the Jerusalem Cross (or, Crusader's Cross) [1]
Their current president, a former military sergeant, is Patricio Cortés Bridges.
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The party espouses a far-right ideology. It is uncompromisingly pro-life, against gun control, and maintains a position on homosexuality that calls for outlawing public displays of homosexual behavior, but states "what consenting adults do in private is between them and God and not the government's business."[2]. The party holds that the Crusades were effectively "defensive" in nature and a reaction to centuries of abuse of Christians and Pilgrims in the Holy Land and the Levant. The party's views on Islam and Freemasonry, as well as its loathing of political correctness and the New Age movement are also notable.
The Christian Falangist Party of America states that the reason it exists is in order to "Defend Christians in the United States from official 'Christophobia' in the public sphere" and educate the public about the true nature of the Islamic threat to western civilization.
The Party also espouses an increasingly popular brand of "Economic Nationalism" focused on regulating the labor practices of large corporations and trade protectionism, and; monetary reform which calls for returning the United States to a "Silver Standard."
The Christian Falange Party of America now has several State chapters including North Carolina [3], Louisiana [4], Kansas [5] and Washington State [6].
