Delegates will adopt an updated set of policy prescriptions – known as the party platform – when the Republican National Convention begins next week.
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This week, Trump’s vision became one piece of the Republican Party platform that will be voted upon next week at the Republican National Convention. He said the process was much easier for his group than in 2012, when GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s campaign and party leaders tried to tamp divisive stands on social issues in the platform.
Washington DC Delegate Rachel Hoff, an openly gay member of the platform committee, had proposed platform language that would call for a “thoughtful discussion” gay marriage, according to Reuters.
Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin said opposition to same-sex marriage has “been the long-time tradition of the Republican Party”, before adding: “She’s still welcome in the party”. All of them should be deported, starting with convicted criminals who have committed violent crimes, he says.
“That effort has been hijacked at the last stages tonight by those who may use it for divisive purposes or for an agenda”, Matheson said. That’s a question you’ll never hear a reporter ask to Democrats.
Two delegates who had signed on to the effort said they did so under false pretenses.
A minority of socially moderate delegates serving on the rules committee pleaded with their colleagues to include some language in the platform that would send a message to Americans with non-traditional sexual preferences and gender identities that they are welcome in the GOP. And it calls for eliminating the IRS provision that prevents churches, like other nonprofits, from engaging in direct electoral advocacy – one of the promises Donald Trump has made to win Religious Right support.
She said it was especially damaging the party with young people to be fighting so stridently to maintain what she called “very hurtful, very mean-spirited” language including declaring families without a married mother and father to be damaging to society and to children. “He has his own ideas”, Perkins told The Times.
“We may disagree on the causes and the solutions to the challenges we face, but I believe like anyone else, they’re trying to figure out their place in a fast-changing America”. In 2004, as a leader of Log Cabin Republicans, he watched his allies get steamrolled by conservatives who put the party on record against gay rights and for a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. It is as if the party has gone so far to the right that Ronald Reagan’s “Big Tent”, now would barely cover a sleeping bag. “I think it’s scary to some, and when you’re afraid, you repeat yourself”. The changes, which will be either adopted or rejected by a full committee later this week, reflect the influence Perkins and other Religious Right leaders still wield. Referring to the internet as a “safe haven for predators”, the platform says pornography has “harmful effects” that has been “destroying the life of millions”, in particular children.
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“We encourage states to continue to fight this public menace and pledge our commitment to children’s safety and well-being”, it continues.
