Monday, June 21, 2010

If it interests you

If you are interested in the origin of the Twelve Points, read this post from InTheAgora.com .  As I have written before, the Twelve Points were an update to the Seven Points of Grand Old Cause at Indiana University, and they were partly inspired by Young Americans for Freedom's Sharon Statement.  This post, however, shows the kind of problem I was trying to address, and my comment on it offers a little insight into what I wanted the First Point to accomplish for the conservative movement.  It was around that time that I finally decided to write the Twelve Points.

I do not and did not agree 100% with everyone quoted in the post, but over all, the post references challenges faced by the conservative community which still need to be confronted and resolved.
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The Twelve Points are a statement of conservative principles, objectives, philosophy, and additional guiding considerations, composed by Karl Born, a young Indianapolis writer and attorney, beginning in early 2008, completed on July 2, 2009.

The purpose of the Twelve Points is to serve as a delivery mechanism for distilled, concentrated conservative thinking, with the goal of returning clarity and completeness to popular conservatism, and spreading knowledge of the true principles of conservatism throughout the conservative community.

The idea for the Twelve Points, along with much of the content of the document itself, came from the "Seven Points," which was created by a group of conservative college students in 2003 at Indiana University: Grand Old Cause.

Even in light of the 2010 election results, the conservative movement has become confused and aimless. Certain essential conservative principles and considerations have faded from memory and lost their influence. The Twelve Points will help to solve this problem by reminding us of conservative thinking that we may not have considered recently, and by making that thinking available to new, developing conservatives.

Send your questions or ideas to the12points@gmail.com!

Read and Sign the Twelve Points, the GOC's Definitive Statement of Conservative Principles!