Christian Falangist Party of America

The Christian Falangist Party of America (or CFPA) is a Catholic Christian Right and falangist 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. The following year in 1986 the party adopted Engelbert Dollfuss as their second spiritual mentor. Since that time, it has yet to field any candidates for office. A 2004 presidential write-in bid by then national director Kurt Weber-Heller was abandoned when Weber-Heller left the party to join the Franciscan Order.

Overview
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) Although named after the Spanish movement led by Francisco Franco, the party does not quote or draw inspiration from that movement but tends to look towards the Kataeb as its ideological forefather.

The CFPA, which remained minuscule and not very well noticed for several years after its inception, grew steadily since September 11, 2001.

Their past director and founder, a former militia lieutenant, and also founder of the Christian Zionists Of America is Patricio Cortés Bridges. In 2007 the Christian Falangist Party of Germany (Christlich Falangistischen Partei Deutschlands) was formed, it is modeled after the CFPA and Patricio Bridges was instrumental in getting the CFPD established as the first Christian Falangist Party in Europe.

On 12 February 2008 the Christian Falangist Party director Patrico Bridges has formed a new party. The National Capitalist Party.

In March a party member from Virginia took over the party.

Platform
The party espouses a largely authoritarian ideology, opposing both social and economic liberalism. It was uncompromisingly pro-life, opposed gun control and called for outlawing public displays of homosexual behavior. To clarify its position, the party website stated "hat what consenting adults do in private is between them and God and not the government's business no matter how filthy, perverted and disgusting it is.". The party's views on Islam and Freemasonry, as well as its loathing of political correctness and the New Age movement are notable. The party also took a hard line against anti-Semitism, declaring that the rights of Jewish as well as Christian immigrants must be respected. CFPA opposed further Muslim immigration. The party believed that the Crusades were essentially defensive in nature, an immediate reaction to the Byzantine rout in the Battle of Manzikert in 1071, and also a long overdue reaction to centuries of abuse of Christians and Pilgrims in the Holy Land and the Levant.

The party stated that the reason it existed was 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 espoused a brand of "economic nationalism" focused on regulating the labor practices of large corporations and trade protectionism. It also desired to restore the silver standard.

It has endorsed the candidacy of Catholic activist Alan Keyes for President in 2008.

Main Menu

See Also

Main Menu