The GOP platform.

[Diamond Jim]

CLEVELAND — Republicans moved on Tuesday toward adopting a staunchly conservative platform that takes a strict, traditionalist view of the family and child rearing, bars military women from combat, describes coal as a “clean” energy source and declares pornography a “public health crisis.”

It is a platform that at times seems to channel the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, Donald J. Trump — calling to “destroy ISIS,” belittling President Obama as weak and accusing his administration of inviting attacks from adversaries.

But the document positions itself far to the right of Mr. Trump’s beliefs in other places — and amounts to a rightward lurch even from the party’s hard-line platform in 2012 — especially as it addresses gay men, lesbians and transgender people.

The platform demands that lawmakers use religion as a guide when legislating, stipulating “that man-made law must be consistent with God-given, natural rights.”

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.”

Nearly every provision that expressed disapproval of homosexuality, same-sex marriage or transgender rights passed. The platform calls for overturning the Supreme Court marriage decision with a constitutional amendment and makes references to appointing judges “who respect traditional family values.”

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.

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/us/politics/republican-convention-issues.html

Repeal gay marriage, legislate from the bible, teach the bible in schools, make gay children undergo conversion therapy, porn is a public health crisis and oh yeah, build the wall.

The 2016 Republican Party.

 

[jimmas99]

Thay are doing the same old mistake, thinking that fundamentalist christianity is on the rise (its not)....
pathetic

 

[sickc0d3r]

This should turn out well for them.

 

[Higus]

The GOP platform better be strong

Spoiler

especially if Chris Christie is going to stand on it

 

[K1levelgrappler]

Without hyperbole, the worst political party in the developed world.

 

[tehend]

Soooo...whats the problem here?

 

[jimmas99]

Soooo...whats the problem here?

Well de GOP is never going to win an election again, so no problem...

 

[tehend]

Well de GOP is never going to win an election again, so no problem...

You know this how?

 

[jimmas99]

Americans are getting away from social konservatism, but the platform is based on the thig young people speacially dont agree on ( gay marrage,theocracy etc). There kind is dying out...

 

[m52nickerson]

The new GOP, just like the old GOP.

At least they are consistent, stupid, but consistent.

 

[chardog]

Well de GOP is never going to win an election again, so no problem...

that's perfectly fine, let demcrats win all you like, you're still gonna be poor. Then you have no one to blame. Hard to blame the guy not in office.... brexit happened in europe, america will have its moment.

 

[Gervinho]

GOP was always expected to move to the right and divide the country racially. Time to win the white vote by a massive margin and scare enough brown people about gays and trannies taking over the country. Boom you have the white house

 

[kpt018]

Glad to see they have no platform to solve the problems of today, unless you believe the bible is a good source of educational material and think gay people are icky.

In the long run this has to be a losing strategy. I just can't see how you can win people over with this kind of platform especially given young people are becoming increasingly liberal on social issues (or liberal in bigger numbers) and less religious. The party has to change or it will die, but maybe it's dying now (Trump basically took them hostage by beating them at their own game).

 

[lfd0311]

Dude, I wasn't even aware the GOP had a platform....

 

[UpaLoompa]

Also saw this in my news feed:
http://www.logcabin.org/pressreleas...cabin-republicans-president-gregory-t-angelo/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articl...-committee-gay-sex-deadlier-than-smoking.html

Some specifics in the former are somewhat outlandish and only narrowly true but, suffice to say, ripskater and other christian taliban members should be pretty happy.

 

[UpaLoompa]

Who decides on the platform committee members by the way?

 

[Trotsky]

You are seeing the parting whimpers of a dying party. Trump merely exists as the shovel or shotgun used to put it out of its misery.

Without hyperbole, the worst political party in the developed world.

This is an undeniable truth.

 

[jimmas99]

that's perfectly fine, let demcrats win all you like, you're still gonna be poor. Then you have no one to blame. Hard to blame the guy not in office.... brexit happened in europe, america will have its moment.

I rather be poor in a country run by democrats than be poor in a theocratic, feudalistic country run by people like Donald trump, Ben Carson, Newt etc.

i would consider myself middle class and i hope to stay that way, republicans is a danger to my way of life.

 

[m52nickerson]

You are seeing the parting whimpers of a dying party. Trump merely exists as the shovel or shotgun used to put it out of its misery.
This is an undeniable truth.

That is hard to say considering they hold more seats in the Senate, the House, and more individual state Governorships and legislators.

 

[Trotsky]

That is hard to say considering they hold more seats in the Senate, the House, and more individual state Governorships and legislators.

You're about to see a massive shift, even bigger than the last mid-term.