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Emerging Republican Platform Goes Far to the Right
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/us/politics/republican-convention-issues.htmlCLEVELAND — 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.”
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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.
As delegates debated in two marathon sessions here on Monday and Tuesday, they repeatedly rejected efforts by more moderate members of the platform committee to add language that would acknowledge or condemn anti-gay discrimination — something Mr. Trump has done himself.
The numerous additions to the platform on marriage, family, homosexuality and gender issues were a reflection of just how much society and the law have shifted since Republicans adopted their last platform four years ago. And the debate this week showed just how unsettled many Republicans remain with those changes.
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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.
As delegates debated in two marathon sessions here on Monday and Tuesday, they repeatedly rejected efforts by more moderate members of the platform committee to add language that would acknowledge or condemn anti-gay discrimination — something Mr. Trump has done himself.
The numerous additions to the platform on marriage, family, homosexuality and gender issues were a reflection of just how much society and the law have shifted since Republicans adopted their last platform four years ago. And the debate this week showed just how unsettled many Republicans remain with those changes.
Here's a clear answer to anyone who claims there is no difference between the parties. One need only look at our platform- progressive, forward thinking, and freedom embracing- versus theirs.
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They're pretty clearly siding with bigotry and hate, here. Even endorsing "conversion therapy".
Forgive me I didn't want to wade through that BS document. I was just curious if they have resolved whether they believe in evolution since Dubya's platform stated that the "jury was still out." 
and here's one for Ben Carson:
But, yeah, a hoax.
Christine O'Donnell was actually a genuine anti-masturbation activist, though. That's for real.
