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Emerging Republican Platform Goes Far to the Right
NY Times ^ | 7/12

Posted on 07/14/2016 12:59:08 PM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

It also encourages the teaching of the Bible in public schools because, the amendment said, a good understanding of its contents is “indispensable for the development of an educated citizenry.”

Additional provisions included those that promoted state laws to limit which restrooms transgender people could use, nodded to “conversion therapy” for gays by saying that parents should be free to make medical decisions about their children without interference and stated that “natural marriage” between a man and a woman is most likely to result in offspring who do not become drug-addicted or otherwise damaged.

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I mean, where to start?

I'm a man of faith, but keeping religion out of school is a good thing. There's no need to teach Bible study in public schools.

Who wrote this language? "indispensable for the development of an educated citizenry" - Sounds like it was written by a founding Father.

“natural marriage” between a man and a woman is most likely to result in offspring who do not become drug-addicted or otherwise damaged.

Again, what the hell? How could they possibly know this? Since gays are about 1% of the population or less, and an even smaller subset of that percentage are gay couples with kids, this claim is just ludicrous. Was there a study done?

We all want smaller government, civil liberty, less regulation and more freedoms. Except the hypocrisy of these statements is fairly absolute when it attempts to control the civil liberties of people.

I am really confused by some of these quotes.

1 posted on 07/14/2016 12:59:08 PM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Ooooh... so they’re fascist!

If that’s the NYT’s view, no wonder the country is doomed.

For the NYT, so sad, too bad.


2 posted on 07/14/2016 1:00:40 PM PDT by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever))
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Kids will be studying the Koran in public schools within a year if HRC is elected.


3 posted on 07/14/2016 1:01:23 PM PDT by CMB_polarization
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Go, Trump, GO!!


4 posted on 07/14/2016 1:05:08 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Shrug, no news here. NYT thinks if you believe in GOD it means you are “far” right. I’m not too worried about what the NYT writes.


5 posted on 07/14/2016 1:05:38 PM PDT by jokemoke
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To: goldstategop

Due respect....

This isn’t so much the Times opinion as it is them quoting the GOP platform. Some of these items are pretty ridiculous. With all the $hit going on in the world and in this country, should our “esteemed” leaders be discussing “conversion therapy” for gays? Have they all turned into Michelle Bachman? Not for anything, but I’d rather my tax dollars be spent elsewhere.


6 posted on 07/14/2016 1:05:40 PM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

NYT is so far left, it has no idea what right is.


7 posted on 07/14/2016 1:06:20 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Platforms are are ignored more than budget agreements


8 posted on 07/14/2016 1:06:38 PM PDT by Donglalinger
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I expect as much from The Slimes.


9 posted on 07/14/2016 1:06:49 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: jokemoke

I’m not worried about the Times either, but they are quoting an official GOP platform which in many cases, seems pretty ridiculous.


10 posted on 07/14/2016 1:07:12 PM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

The Repubs want to lose in 2016, rather than win with Trump.


11 posted on 07/14/2016 1:07:29 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
It also encourages the teaching of the Bible in public schools because, the amendment said, a good understanding of its contents is “indispensable for the development of an educated citizenry.”

The NY Times is a newspaper. It is allegedly written in English. Therefore they obviously know that a huge number of our idioms in American English come from the BIBLE. Hence it is essential knowledge even to atheists.


12 posted on 07/14/2016 1:07:30 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I think they assume most people won’t read the platform.


13 posted on 07/14/2016 1:08:58 PM PDT by Lower Deck
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To: Buckeye McFrog

That’s a stretch. Religion of any sort has no business being taught in public schools.


14 posted on 07/14/2016 1:09:15 PM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: Lower Deck

They meaning the GOP? I would agree. I think it’s mostly fodder for the farthest right portion of the base. And similarly, the Dems will do the same thing I imagine.

It just seems like a waste of time and (money?) to put it onto paper.


15 posted on 07/14/2016 1:10:26 PM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

It’s about letting parents decide the medical care of their children, not the government.


16 posted on 07/14/2016 1:10:30 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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To: TangledUpInBlue

This is from the NYT, so it’s not true. Calm down.


17 posted on 07/14/2016 1:10:38 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: TangledUpInBlue

They just copied and pasted the Democrat platform from 50 years ago.


18 posted on 07/14/2016 1:10:55 PM PDT by reagandemocrat
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To: TangledUpInBlue

How can you truly understand US history and our founding documents without at least a passing familiarity with the Bible?

Absent an understanding of the principles in the Bible kids like myself grow up thinking nonsense like that the US was an atheist country created by and for atheists and that the whole mess with churches and Christians is an anomaly that has nothing at all to do with the American continuum.


19 posted on 07/14/2016 1:11:12 PM PDT by MeganC (The decline of civilization will be carried out by those who are just doing their jobs.)
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To: DLfromthedesert

I have no major beef with that. But then we see these nuts who watch their kids die because they’re refuse to immunize or provide anti-biotics. Somewhere the laws have to protect people (kids) that can’t protect themselves.

Without overstepping for sure.


20 posted on 07/14/2016 1:12:00 PM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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