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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Giovanni Cicione, a Rhode Island attorney on the party’s Platform Committee, said Wednesday that he has collected enough petition signatures from delegates to force a vote on the alternative proposal on the convention floor next week.
The platform proposal was raised as an amendment at the end of proceedings, but was ruled out of order.
It is exciting to be here, and of course, the buzz here and nationwide is about who will be chosen as Donald Trump’s running mate.
We’ve yet to see the statistics demonstrating that millions of lives have been destroyed by porn (unless we’re counting wasted jizz-are we counting wasted jizz, Mary?)-but we’ve certainly seen the stats on lives destroyed by, say, gun violence, which I’m sure the GOP will address in their own thoughtful and-no? “It is incredible that so many evangelicals and pro-lifers found Mr. Romney unacceptable yet are willing to bring the scourge of abortion into the Republican platform with Trump”, wrote Fr. Marcel Gaurnizo in a Townhall column.
Angelo continued, “Opposition to marriage equality, nonsense about bathrooms, an endorsement of the debunked psychological practice of “pray the gay away” – it’s all in there”. When given the change to follow the lead of our presumptive presidential nominee and reach out to the LGBT community in the wake of the bad terrorist massacre in Orlando on the gay nightclub Pulse, the Platform Committee said NO. “But I also think it threatens the party on a political level, where on a demographic basis, what future will our party have if we are so out of touch with young Americans in particular?”
Perhaps the ideal encapsulation of platform drafting process came yesterday, when Republican officials considered language that would have acknowledged that LGBT people have been targeted by ISIS with “violence and oppression”.
Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, appearing on “On The Record with Greta Van Susteren”, said that including the border wall in the party’s proposed platform was a “hat tip” to Trump.
BUT…now is not the time to sit around feeling sorry for ourselves.
“The thing is there’s so many thing we agree on that we don’t really have to have big debates, in terms of jobs, getting people back to work, a strong economy”, he said.
Cleveland is rightly making the most of their time in the spotlight, and prices for advertising in area news outlets are sky-high.
Delegates meeting in Cleveland Tuesday backed a draft platform that states, “We need better negotiated trade agreements that put America first”.
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