Posted on 07/10/2016 7:02:03 PM PDT by Faith Presses On
With the Republican National Convention less than two weeks away, moderate Republicans are drafting an amendment that would soften the GOP's official position on gays and lesbians, CBS News has learned.
The party's official stance on LGBT issues will be debated during next week's meeting of the RNC's platform committee, a 112-member group of Republican activists from around the country.
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Currently, the language adopted during the 2012 platform calls the "redefinition of marriage" by state courts an "assault on the foundations of society." It's unclear whether or not this language will be eliminated. But the compromise that some delegates are expecting is the addition of "equality language."
"Equality for all people," is how one member of the platform committee described the language to CBS News. "That would be a hard thing for Republicans not to vote for."
"The compromises are going to end up in the same place where it's pretty much been, just to keep the fighting at a minimum. But there are ways to say things that show we are a party that believes in fairness for all Americans," the delegate added.
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The secular humanists have convinced many people that the Bible is "repressive" and the sexual revolution is naturally right. But without modern medicine, it wouldn't be possible to avoid so many of the consequences of a sexually libertine society.
And now in the case of the secular humanists pushing for the acceptance of people who want to be accepted as the opposite sex, they again ignore nature in that someone is physiologically one sex or the other (unless they are actually intersex). That means there are a great many differences throughout the body, and in how the body functions, not just in the sexual organs. Men have larger muscles, hearts and lungs than women, just for one example, and there are many, many more. Surgery and hormones don't change that, but only interfere with the person's actual physical nature.
Pssssst. Hey, RINOs. You can’t out-Democrat the Democrats. How about offering the people a clear choice: pro-homo or anti-homo? Let THEM decide, instead of your buddies on the salon circuit.
From the article:
“Jim Bopp Jr., a conservative Indiana delegate on the platform, said the old platform language on same-sex marriage is no longer appropriate since last year’s landmark Supreme Court ruling that allowed same-sex couples to marry nationwide.
“This won’t change the core of the issue, Bopp told CBS News. He also said that adopting friendlier language toward gays and lesbians should not be perceived as a major concession by conservatives.”
Not what God has in mind. They need to check the Bible.
Oh yeah - that’ll stop this nation from crumbling apart. :)
And they wonder why people no longer trust the GOPe.
Yup. Everyday the GOPe never stops amazing me in how they want to be the Dem Party AAA affiliate.
Why don’t they just adopt the DemocRat platform and stop pussyfooting around?
They already did in 2012 when Romney wouldn’t support the Chick Fil.
“On Friday, Romney told reporters he does not intend to address the controversy that was touched off when big city mayors threatened to punish the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain after its president, Dan Cathy, voiced support for the traditional definition of marriage as between a man and a woman.”
I'm not very familiar with any of these people. Are they committed Christians? And what about the "LGBT" lobby and withstanding it?
Really. What can they do to look more like Rats?
And I don’t recall Romney faring too well among conservatives.
It’s CRAP like this that is the reason for Trump.
Bull shit. There is nothing to concede. Marriage consists of the joining together in matrimony of one male and one female. Thus joined, the two become as one. Not two males. Not two females.
It’s CRAP like this that is the reason for Trump.
Mitt Romney ran well to the left of Ted Kennedy in 1994. It may have helped him later win the Massachusetts governorship, but it also probably ensured that he would never be president.
Remember the Art of the Deal. You don’t open by lowering your position. You open with a higher demand so you can later get what you want.
“They beeped when they should’ve bopped.” Dizzy Gillespie lyric
Not sure what you mean. Are you suggesting that Trump represents the socially conservative fundamentalist right?
Bottom line is that with the SCOTUS ruling, the platform plank is useless. Unlike abortion ruling which may be changed, don’t see that one changing.
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