- Abortion issues: Pro-life. Does not support abortion except in cases where fetal death is a collateral consequence of efforts to save a mother's life.. Believes abortion violates an unborn child's First Amendment rights.
- Affirmative action: Opposes affirmative action on the contention that it divides the people, and patronizes minority groups. Believes the federal government should follow California's lead in abolishing preferential treatment immediately. Believes that homosexuality is a choice, and opposes same-sex marriages.
- Campaign finance: Wants no limits on congressional campaigns. He would remove all limits on contributions and spending (with full disclosure). Supports PAC contributions.
- Crime: I've never been somebody who thought that you should be applying capital punishment indiscriminately. But I do believe that it is necessary in certain instances in order for a society to show due respect for life.
- Defense spending: He believes we have carried cutbacks too far. He would reduce some aspects of defense spending while increasing others.
- Drug policy: Increase penalties for selling drugs. Impose capital punishment for convicted
international drug traffickers.
- Homosexual issues: States in his campaign literature that "the effort to equate homosexual and lesbian relations with legal marriage represents a destructive assault on the heterosexual, marriage-based family." He says, "It is wrong to treat sexual orientation like a race."
Also says, "I oppose any efforts to use government power to impose views that contravene religious conscience on matters such as homosexuality and abortion." - Education money: Strongly favor school choice approaches that empower parents to send their children to schools that reflect the parents' faith and values. This should include choices in both the public and the independent schools.
- Environment: He supports weighing the impact of environmental legislation on jobs, private property rights, and economic concerns.
- Evolution: Strong believer in Creationism. Favors only local control of schools, which would open the door for the teaching of Creationism in public schools.
- Foreign policy: Non-interventionist. Thinks our foreign policy should be guided by national interests, not by the UN. Believes the maintenance of American sovereignty should be a priority. Calls for a US withdrawal from the UN, should our independence in international affairs be threatened.
- Gun control: Opposes. Argues that the Second Amendment gives a citizen the right to protect himself from threats like intruders and a tyrannical government. Believes that people are responsible for violence, not firearms.
- Health care: Favors allowing Americans to set up a tax-free medical savings account, which would be taxed if used for any purpose other than medical costs. Otherwise, favors keeping the government out of it.
- Moral issues: Supports school prayer, and a parent's right to choose a child's school. Believes in strengthening the nation's curriculum by reintroducing moral education. Opposes sex education.
- Social security: Believes we must "trust the capacity of people to make the right judgments about how to use their own money to provide for retirement." Criticizes Clinton for believing we need to take care of the elderly with Social Security.
- Tax policy: Wants to abolish the "socialist" income tax by replacing it with a national sales tax. Supports a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution that would limit both borrowing and spending.
- Trade issues: Advocates trade controls. Believes that free government is more important than free trade. Keyes says "Trade socialism must be defeated root and branch, even when it is called 'free trade'."
He adds GATT/WTO were big mistakes. In his opinion our representatives in Congress should not give the President "fast track" authority to "strike back room trade deals". - A former Reagan Administration official Alan L. Keyes is a popular Conservative orator. This former diplomat is campaigning for the Republican nomination.
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