‘Opposition to marriage equality, nonsense about bathrooms, an endorsement of the debunked psychological practice of “pray the gay away” – it’s all in there, ‘ Log Cabin President Gregory T. Angelo writes in an email to members.
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Time and again, the delegates bringing up amendments to the platform to introduce LGBT-friendly language have been defeated, as fellow Republicans have argued against singling out the LGBT community as a particular group and supporting traditional marriage. “It can’t be too far right”.
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“LGBT issues were being discussed in nearly every platform subcommittee”, he told TIME.
Gay conversion therapy: Several states have banned gay conversion therapy for minors, but the GOP is not ready to accept the consensus among psychologists that this pseudoscience does nothing more than harm the children it purports to cure.
Pro-life activists know they have a voice in the Republican Party and many will be in Cleveland for the upcoming GOP convention.
Look at the strong backing for same sex marriage and gay rights, she urged.
“We are your daughters”, Hoff said, choking back tears. The GOP platform proposal doesn’t include the stipulation. “I said from the beginning this was going to be a conservative platform that tries to reflect the views and vision of the party”. Roughly 20 of the 112 members on the panel voted in favor of the change.
Foxx says she has no doubt that the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, shares all the core beliefs. “We need to do something here”.
“It’s awesome. This is not just a victory in Virginia for delegates, but this is a victory for delegates all over the country who want to vote their consciences”, said Beau Correll, the Republican delegate who filed the suit as part of a broader push by anti-Trump delegates to derail his nomination next week.
Democratic platform committee member Mara Keisling says that “it was not a hard sell” to get any LGBT-inclusive amendment added during their meetings over the past weekend.
After June’s attack on a gay nightclub Trump cast himself as a defender of the community, but the Republican party as a whole remains uneasy on questions of LGBT rights and continues to oppose same-sex marriage.
Citing Trump, the Log Cabin Republicans’ Angelo said, “This isn’t my GOP, and I know it’s not yours either”.
And what about Donald Trump?
The GOP platform committee approved language that criticized a pair of U.S. Supreme Court decisions that led to the legalization of same-sex marriage, and rejected a proposal to explicitly acknowledge LGBT people as targets of “radical Islamic terrorism” and reference last month’s mass shooting in Orlando that left 49 people dead.
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Delegates will adopt an updated set of policy prescriptions – known as the party platform – at the RNC.
