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| party_name = American Solidarity Party

| party_name = American Solidarity Party

| party_logo = [[File:Logo of the American Solidarity Party.jpg|200px|"American Solidarity Party Pelican" logo]]

| party_logo = [[File:Logo of the American Solidarity Party.jpg|200px|"American Solidarity Party Pelican" logo]]

| leader1_title = Presidential nominee

| leader1_title = Presidential nominee

| leader1_name = [[Amir Azarvan]] ([[Georgia (U.S. state)|GA]])  

| leader1_name = [[Mike Maturen]] ([[Michigan|MI]])  

|foundation      =  {{nowrap|Christian Democratic Party USA (2011-2012)<br>American Solidarity Party (2012-present)}}

|foundation      =  {{nowrap|Christian Democratic Party USA (2011-2012)<br>American Solidarity Party (2012-present)}}

|ideology        = [[Christian Democracy]]<ref name="Longenecker2016"/><br>[[Christian right]]<ref name=CDMagazine2012>{{cite web|url=http://www.christiandemocracymagazine.com/2012/12/an-interview-with-david-frost-and-kirk.html|title=An Interview with David Frost and Kirk Morrison|publisher=Christian Democracy Magazine|language=English|accessdate=23 June 2016|quote=There is a growing movement of people who adhere to Catholic Social Teaching and, because of that, find that they cannot find a home with either of the two major political parties in the United States. Their answer has been to form a political party based on Christian democratic principles. The name they have chosen is American Solidarity Party. ... Kirk, you have an article that will go into the first issue of Christian Democracy along with this interview. Christian democracy has been described as conservative on social issues and liberal on economic issues.}}</ref><br>[[Economic liberalism]]<ref name=CDMagazine2012/>

|ideology        = [[Christian Democracy]]<ref name="Longenecker2016"/><br>[[Christian right]]<ref name=CDMagazine2012>{{cite web|url=http://www.christiandemocracymagazine.com/2012/12/an-interview-with-david-frost-and-kirk.html|title=An Interview with David Frost and Kirk Morrison|publisher=Christian Democracy Magazine|language=English|accessdate=23 June 2016|quote=There is a growing movement of people who adhere to Catholic Social Teaching and, because of that, find that they cannot find a home with either of the two major political parties in the United States. Their answer has been to form a political party based on Christian democratic principles. The name they have chosen is American Solidarity Party. ... Kirk, you have an article that will go into the first issue of Christian Democracy along with this interview. Christian democracy has been described as conservative on social issues and liberal on economic issues.}}</ref><br>[[Economic liberalism]]<ref name=CDMagazine2012/>

The political position of the American Solidarity Party is [[centrist]] ([[moderate]]) and as a result, its platform is [[Christian right|socially conservative]] and [[Economic liberalism|economically liberal]]. Therefore, the ASP holds to socially conservative views such as adhering to a [[pro-life]] position with regard to abortion, capital punishment and euthanasia, as well as opposition to [[same-sex marriage]] and opposition to [[pornography]]. With regard to economics, labor issues and foreign policy, the American Solidarity Party is liberal, seeing the "moderate [[welfare state]] as the public expression of every citizen’s responsibility for his poor brother or sister."<ref name="Longenecker">{{cite web|url=http://aleteia.org/2016/05/12/is-it-time-for-an-american-christian-democracy-party/|title=Is It Time for a US Christian Democracy Party?|last=Longenecker|first=Dwight|date=12 May 2016|publisher=Aleteia|language=English|accessdate=4 July 2016}}</ref>  

The political position of the American Solidarity Party is [[centrist]] ([[moderate]]) and as a result, its platform is [[Christian right|socially conservative]] and [[Economic liberalism|economically liberal]]. Therefore, the ASP holds to socially conservative views such as adhering to a [[pro-life]] position with regard to abortion, capital punishment and euthanasia, as well as opposition to [[same-sex marriage]] and opposition to [[pornography]]. With regard to economics, labor issues and foreign policy, the American Solidarity Party is liberal, seeing the "moderate [[welfare state]] as the public expression of every citizen’s responsibility for his poor brother or sister."<ref name="Longenecker">{{cite web|url=http://aleteia.org/2016/05/12/is-it-time-for-an-american-christian-democracy-party/|title=Is It Time for a US Christian Democracy Party?|last=Longenecker|first=Dwight|date=12 May 2016|publisher=Aleteia|language=English|accessdate=4 July 2016}}</ref>  

[[Amir Azarvan]] is nominee for the American Solidarity Party in the [[2016 U.S. presidential election]].

Mike Maturen is nominee for the American Solidarity Party in the [[2016 U.S. presidential election]].

==History==

==History==