The work of the Republican National Convention formally got underway today, as the committee that lays out the Republican platform on issues ranging from public lands to gay marriage convened.
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“There are a number of amendments right now that are being considered in a whole host of committees”, Angelo said. The Obama administration’s “edict to the states concerning restrooms” and other facilities, allowing transgender people to use the restroom of the sex they identify with is “dangerous”, the committee wrote. “I think in 20 years we’ll look at this as an unfortunate blot in the history of the Republican Party that there wasn’t an embrace for our brothers and sisters”.
Hoff’s proposal would have put the GOP on neutral ground on same-sex marriage, acknowledging “diverse and sincerely held views” in the Republican Party, encouraging the “stability of all families” and welcoming “a thoughtful conversation” around marriage.
The 2012 GOP platform said, “The Free Trade Agreements negotiated with friendly democracies since President Reagan’s trailblazing pact with Israel in 1985 facilitated the creation of almost ten million jobs supported by our exports”. It now must be approved by the all delegates on the floor of the Republican National Convention Monday.
An emotional moment gripped the GOP platform committee’s deliberations last night, as a delegate from Washington, D.C., came out in a passionate plea on same-sex marriage.
A first draft of the GOP platform leaves a strong opposition to abortion in place while remaining strict on trade.
He told supporters “this isn’t my GOP”, nor is it Donald Trump’s.
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. An amendment offered by the Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins endorses the thoroughly debunked practise of conversion therapy for LGBT kids, “support [ing] the right of parents to determine the proper treatment or therapy, for their minor children”.
Hoff called for a show of hands for her vote, instead of a voice vote, to show the amount of support or opposition. However, the draft platform reportedly doesn’t include exceptions. A member who identified herself as a single mother from Nebraska said she found the amendment insulting not only to LGBT parents but to single parents. Trump, as well as presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, opposes the USA pact with 11 Pacific Rim nations. When given a chance to follow the lead of our presumptive presidential nominee and reach out to the LGBT community in the wake of the terrible terrorist massacre in Orlando on the gay nightclub Pulse, the Platform Committee said “No”.
The proposal would not add LGBT language into the platform.
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Fogarty says Romney lost a lot of support that day outing, “Everyone who I knew all along who said, we need Romney, we need Romney, just turned on him”.
