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Immigration and homosexual "marriage" are shaping up to be the most contentious issues facing Republican platform writers in the weeks before the party's national convention, convention officials said.

Another pablum platform Robert Novak (archive) August 5, 2004 | Print | Send WASHINGTON -- With the Republican National Convention's platform committee convening in New York less than three weeks from now, no draft platform exists, no subcommittees have been named and no special lodging for committee members has been assigned. Rather than signifying sudden collapse of accustomed Republican efficiency, all this looks more like a coolly calculated plan. The suspicion has grown that President Bush's re-election strategists -- Karl Rove and Karen Hughes -- do not want the open debate over principles and policy that has characterized Republican platform-making...

By EMILY FREDRIX Associated Press Writer August 3, 2004, 5:28 PM EDT WASHINGTON -- Republicans are crafting the party's platform with a populist bent this year. Anyone with Internet access -- party member or not -- can log onto the GOP's site and offer thoughts for the Republican platform, which will be approved at the party's convention later this month in New York. Visitors to the "Platform Portal", which went live on Tuesday, provide some personal information and select the issue most important to them. Among the 20 choices: jobs, transportation, war on terror and 'other'. Space is included for...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ginny Wolfe212-356-2344 Washington, DC – Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D. (R-TN), Chairman of the 2004 Platform Committee, today announced the creation of an online Platform Portal and invited Americans to participate in the development of ideas for the 2004 Republican Platform. The web-based tool, which goes live today at 12 p.m. and can be accessed at www.gopconvention.com/platform, allows Republicans across the nation to contribute to the creation of the party’s platform. “The best ideas most often come from Americans who solve real problems and live real dreams every single day,” said Senator Frist. “With your...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Lindsay Taylor/Mark Pfeifle202-863-8614/212-356-2300 Washington, DC - Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie today announced the addition of Anne Phelps and Ginny Wolfe to the 2004 Republican Platform Committee staff. Phelps will serve as Executive Director and Wolfe as Communications Director for the 2004 Republican Platform to be chaired by Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, M.D. (TN), Congresswoman Melissa Hart (PA) and Colorado Governor Bill Owens. "We are fortunate to have such talented people join us as the 2004 Platform Committee works to craft a proposal that reflects the president's goals and the beliefs of our party,"...

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2004 Republican Party of Texas Platform Preamble The delegates of the 2004 Republican Party of Texas believe that our Party Platform expresses fundamental beliefs and truths that were recognized by our country’s founders. The conservative principles of our Party are tested and proven. We believe that Republican officeholders of our representative republic do not truly represent their electorate unless this platform is the basis for their decision-making. We call on Texas Republicans to work diligently to expand our network of grassroots volunteers to elect representative Republicans. To accomplish this, we commend these core principles of the 2004 Texas Republican...

The Republican Party has a problem this election year. It's the governing party, but it lacks a governing philosophy. The G.O.P. used to have a governing philosophy: reducing the size of the state. This was a useful goal because it was the one thing all Republican factions could agree upon. The business community wanted to reduce the public sector because it stifled growth. Social conservatives wanted to shrink the nanny state because it produced dependency. Libertarians and populists wanted to reduce government because it gave too much power to bureaucratic elites. But reducing the size of government can no longer...

<p>The advocacy of gay activists who want the same recognition and status as heterosexual couples has fueled a national debate that is leading Republicans to consider opposing homosexual marriage in their national platform. "There is a lot of energy out there, a lot of concern about gay marriage," Ed Gillespie, chairman of the Republican National Committee, said. "So it wouldn't surprise me if it were addressed in some form or fashion in the platform."</p>

<p>Republicans are prepared to oppose homosexual "marriage" in their national platform, Republican National Committee Chairman Ed Gillespie said yesterday.</p> <p>"There is a lot of energy out there, a lot of concern about gay marriage," Mr. Gillespie said. "So it wouldn't surprise me if it were addressed in some form or fashion in the platform."</p>

1964 REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM "FOR THE PEOPLE" SECTION ONE For a Free People Humanity is tormented once again by an age-old issue, is man to live in dignity and freedom under God or be enslaved, are men in government to serve, or are they to master, their fellow men? It befalls us now to resolve this issue anew, perhaps this time for centuries to come. Nor can we evade the issue here at home. Even in this Constitutional Republic, for two centuries the beacon of liberty the world over, individual freedom retreats under the mounting assault of expanding centralized power....

  SUBSCRIBE ME!Join our e-mail list! June 20, 2003   Alan Simpson Says We Have "Rocks for Brains"  A former U.S. Senator from Wyoming, Alan Simpson, in a column that appeared in the Washington Post (6/16/03), described pro-life Republicans as "steely-eyed zealots trying to inflict their personal views on others." Such people, Mr. Simpson says, must "have rocks for brains" if they believe the conflict over abortion is ever going to be resolved, reports Ken Connor in Family Research Council's 6/16 edition of Washington Update. Alan Simpson is a pro-abortion member of the board of the Republican Pro-Choice Coalition,...

A different Republican Party By Tod Lindberg Historians will mark the administration of George W. Bush as the point at which the so-called social issues, long a galvanizing feature of American partisan politics, finally lost their sting. The Supreme Court's rulings upholding diversity as a compelling government interest and striking down the remaining state anti-sodomy laws join the early Bush administration decision allowing stem-cell research to go forward. The trinity (as it were) of decisions leave those whose top priority has been the preservation of a certain traditional public morality now essentially voiceless in electoral politics. The Republican Party has...

<p>July 2, 2003 -- Mayor Bloomberg waded into the issue of gay-marriage yesterday, saying the national Republican Party should remove its plank against same-sex unions.</p> <p>"I have always thought that people should be allowed to go about their business themselves," Bloomberg said.</p>