FRC Warns GOP: Don’t Weaken Anti-LGBTQ Platform

May 30, 2024 Christianists, Hate Groups

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website:

NBC News is the latest to stir the pot, insisting that they spoke to nine people close to the Trump campaign who warned that there’s a strategy afoot to stop conservatives from moving the party platform “too far to the right” on things like abortion and same-sex marriage.

That’s sounding plenty of alarms in the GOP, where the base will tell you: debating the issues is fine, abandoning them is not.

This isn’t some useless document that sits on a shelf and collects dust until the next convention. The platform is the anchor that tethers the nominees to the core principles of their party — which, for Democrats, includes things like taxpayer-funded abortion and gender transitions for kids.

Maybe some Americans still think those detailed documents hammered out over days at the conventions don’t mean anything, but history shows — they mean everything. And if Republicans choose this year to walk away from their principles, then they shouldn’t be surprised when voters walk away from them.

From the referenced NBC News report:

There is a sense among some party leaders that Trump’s team wants to make sure that the people who make it onto the platform committee don’t come up with a platform that could be viewed as too extreme in a general election on issues like the definition of marriage and abortion.

“The campaign is really getting into it and involved this year in [platform committee] races in states,” a veteran Republican operative who has done work in the past for the RNC said. “There is a sense among them that the platform should not be pushed too far to the right on a few issues, but

Of note, Tony Perkins was among the select few convention delegates who wrote the GOP’s 2016 platform, which was adopted in its entirety without changes in 2020.



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