Bopp and most other delegates supported language in this year’s platform that says children “deserve a married mom and dad”, and refers to “natural marriage” as between a man and a woman.
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The Republican Party platform is now fully drafted, with little change on social issues, like gay marriage – but at least one Republican delegate has made emotional impact on the GOP. The fight is expected to play out through next week’s convention and beyond. The American electorate, however, ultimately chose Trump as the guy to represent the GOP, suggesting they liked what he had to say about securing our border.
A committee met Monday and Tuesday in Cleveland, Ohio for a line-by-line honing of the party’s official positions in a document that will theoretically serve as a guide over the next four years.
The 2012 platform said the double-layer fencing “must finally be built”.
“This is going in only one direction, so that the platform committee of the GOP hasn’t caught up with it yet is unfortunate”, Dickerson told CNN.
As we reported earlier, efforts to soften the GOP’s social platform fell on deaf ears.
A public health researcher and ethicist by training, Dr. Sean Philpott-Jones is Director of Research Ethics for the Bioethics Program of Clarkson University-Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in Schenectady, New York.
“A man and a woman family is the best, ideal vehicle for raising children”, according to James Bopp, a GOP delegate from IN, and a prominent conservative attorney.
The Faith In America statement does clarify, though, “The language included in the platform does not specifically mention the words “conversion therapy.’ It mentions that parents should be allowed to seek whatever treatment or therapy they deem fit for their children”. It was viewed a nod to gay conversion therapy in everything but exact terms.
The draft proposal also calls for protecting businesses that refuse services to gays and lesbians on moral grounds.
The presumptive Republican nominee is all bluster and toughness when he is denouncing political correctness, but he turns meekly obliging when dealing with the Religious Right leaders he is counting on to turn out the vote. According to the Pew Research Center, 63 percent of those surveyed said homosexuality should be accepted by society and 28 percent said it should be discouraged.
She said polling shows young voters, including those who lean Republican, are in favor of gay rights.
Trump attended a gay wedding in the past and has said he knows “many, many gay people”.
Mr Trump, who claims strong support from the gay community, has said that North Carolina’s so-called “bathroom law”, which directs transgender people to use the toilet that matches the gender on their birth certificates, has caused unnecessary strife. The document takes a deeply critical view toward President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy decisions, all under a section titled “A Dangerous World”, noted the Times.
The GOP also condemned porn in its 2012 policy platform, which called for current laws on pornography and obscenity to be “vigorously enforced”.
But some have also said his relative silence is helpful to them.
“I’m proud of the work the delegates have done in drafting our Party’s platform for the 2016 Republican National Convention”, said Priebus.
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At the heart of the effort was a group of delegates working with American Unity Fund, a pro-LGBT Republican advocacy group funded by billionaire Republican Paul Singer.
