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Promoting Individual Freedom and Personal Safety > Protecting Citizens From Crime > Sentencing Reform
We urge parole boards to administer punishment according to the intent of the sentencing courts. We also call for disclosure to juries of their rights and powers; of, of prior convictions of the defendant; and, and of the actual time likely to be served before parole. We believe punishment should be assessed in proportion to the crime and should be a deterrent. We support imprisonment for life without parole for habitual felons. Convicted criminals should make restitution to their victims. A minimum education level should be established by law for all parolees. No inmate with a history of drug abuse should be eligible for parole before completing treatment.
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Strengthening Families, Protecting Life and Promoting Health > Celebrating Traditional Marriage > Marriage and Divorce
We believe in the sanctity of marriage and that the integrity of this institution should be protected at all levels of government. We urge the Legislature to rescind no-fault divorce laws. We support Covenant Marriage.
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The problems that cause divorce cannot be solved with more red tape. This is a problem for the church and the people.

No-fault in fact ended the chicanery and legal fictions that enabled the practice anyway.

Furthermore, personal morality is the prerogative of the church and the individual, not the government.

There is no credible movement to change marriage other than the ongoing debate about gay marriage, and that is handled in the Family and Defense of Marriage plank.

advances religious doctrine, redundant, pointless

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