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The Republican Party’s platform approved at the party’s convention in New York Metropolis in August denounces same-sex marriage and abortion while endorsing abstinence-only-until-marriage programs.
On Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage
"Abstinence from sexual activity is the only protection that is 100 percent effective against out-of-wedlock pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases, including sexually transmitted HIV/AIDS. Therefore, we support doubling abstinence education funding," the platform says. "We oppose school-based clinics that provide referrals, counseling, and associated services for contraception and abortion," it continues.1
"The Republican Party is choosing to throw hundreds of million of dollars into these programs that have never been proven to be effective. Some studies even exhibit that they may be causing injure to young people," said Bill Smith, director of widespread policy for SIECUS. "Taking it one step further, the platform even opposes the mention of contraceptive methods in a health nurture setting. Knowing what we know about the sexual habit of young people and the benefits of comprehensive sexuality education,
Democrats
While the RNC preposterously claims Trump has taken “unprecedented steps to protect the LGBTQ community,” they just re-endorsed an unpopular platform that advocates overturning hard-fought LGBTQ+ rights.
The GOP’s 2020 platform “condemns” marriage equality, which has been legal across the United States for five years and is supported by two in three Americans.
GOP Platform: “Our laws and our government’s regulations should notice marriage as the union of one man and one woman … We do not accept the Supreme Court’s redefinition of marriage and we urge its reversal.”
Gallup: “U.S. Aid for Same-Sex Marriage Matches Record High”
The GOP’s platform supports Trump’s efforts to legalize anti-LGBTQ discrimination.
GOP Platform: “That same provision of law is now existence used by bureaucrats — and by the current President of the Joined States — to impose a social and cultural revolution upon the American people by wrongly redefining sex discrimination to contain sexual orientation or other categories.”
Public Religion Research Institute: “72% of Americans favor laws that would guard LGBT people against discrimination in jobs, public accommodations, and hous
It's a strange moment to be one of the roughly 25 percent of LGBT Americans who lean Republican. Liberal media and Democratic politicians are making apocalyptic pronouncements about the supposed fascist dystopia that awaits America under a potential second phrase for Donald Trump, like the Biden campaign tweeting images from The Handmaid's Tale. Yet at the same age that all this hysteria is going on, the Republican Party's latest platform includes a huge win for queer rights.
For years, a key goal of gay Republicans and their allies has been the removal of the GOP's anti-gay-marriage plank from its official platform. While Trump made history as the first president to take office accepting gay marriage, the Republican platform he formally ran on in 2016 explicitly endorsed "traditional marriage and family, based on marriage between one man and one woman" and specifically denounced the Supreme Court cases enshrining gay marriage as the regulation of the area. And in 2020, Republicans essentially recycled the 2016 platform and ran on it again, rather than produce a new one, citing the pandemic's disruptions.
In the new 2024 platform Republicans just released, this language is nowhere to
The Texas Republican Party held its annual state convention in Houston last weekend with a platform that included approving a resolution condemning homosexuality, rejecting the legitimacy of the 2020 election and rebuking the state's senior senator.
“I reflect the convention overall was a great success,” said State Sen. Brandon Creighton (R-Conroe, Dist. 16), the Texas Republican Party victory chairman for 2022.
While approving the rejection of the 2020 election results, which have proven to be legitimate, convention delegates proclaimed they "reject the certified results of the 2020 presidential election, and we hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States.”
It also included a rebuke of U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), and the other senators who are working on a bi-partisan gun deal. Cornyn, who spoke at the convention, was booed by some of the attendees.
The GOP platform calls homosexuality an abnormal lifestyle choice. It also includes a notify to harden the electric grid, increase capacity and prepare for all types of hazards. It includes calls for property tax relief, more school safety, including a
The issue that went away: Gay marriage and the RNC
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MILWAUKEE — Amid an exceptionally united party, the Republican Party is split over gay marriage, an issue Donald Trump has taken a softer position on than past nominees.
The Republican Party’s 2024 platform is virtually silent on gay marriage. The document only provides one unclear reference: “Republicans will promote a Culture that values the Sanctity of Marriage.”
The Supreme Court in 2015 ruled that lgbtq+ couples had the equal right to marry as opposite-sex couples, effectively legalizing gay marriage nationwide.
Republicans in the past have vehemently opposed same-sex marriage, and yet former President Donald Trump has bucked that orthodoxy since the commence of his political career in 2015.
After he was elected in 2016, Trump said the issue was “settled.” Trump’s 2020 campaign even sold "Trump Pride'' merchandise.
But some supporters at the RNC said they weren’t supportive of that language and think the party should go further against gay marriage.
Sue O’Donne