2016 GOP Platform

[azgreg]

The platform committee has been meeting and their planks are pilling up.

GOP platform declares pornography 'public health crisis' - CNNPolitics.com

Cleveland (CNN)The Republican Party will declare internet pornography a "public health crisis" under an amendment added to the draft party platform Monday at preliminary meetings in Cleveland.

GOP poised to back Donald Trump's border wall in platform - CNNPolitics.com

Cleveland (CNN)The Republican Party is set to give a formal endorsement to the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border espoused by Donald Trump, solidifying it in the party's platform.

Draft GOP platform calls for 'America first' trade policy, drops call for marriage amendment - CNNPolitics.com

And in a major shift, the platform would drop the pursuit of a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as between a man and a woman, opting instead to oppose the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage and calling on the matter to be decided by the states.

The draft language shared with CNN also would slightly alter the party's position on Israel, reinstating a reference to an "undivided" Jerusalem and removing a reference to Palestine in support of a two-state solution.

The most substantial changes to the 2012 platform came on trade -- a key issue for Trump where he has sparred with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other reliable conservative business backers. The new language sounds remarkably like Trump, though it stays away from some of his more inflammatory positions including renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement.

The draft does not diverge strongly, however, from the 2012 position on abortion, saying that unborn children are protected by the Constitution and decrying abortion.

The draft also diverges from the position held on gay marriage in every platform since 2004.
Gone is seeking a constitutional amendment to declare marriage as between "one man and one woman," and instead there is a section on the importance of a "married mom and dad."
"Our laws and our government's regulations should recognize marriage as the union of one man and one woman and actively promote married family life as the basis of a stable and prosperous society," the draft reads.

More to come. Looking forward to seeing the actual document.

 

[azgreg]

GOP Platform Subcommittee Passes Amendment Calling for Bible to Be Taught as Historical Document - The New Civil Rights Movement

Members of the Republican National Committee are meeting this week to draft the 2016 GOP platform, and it's clear they've learned nothing about Americans after losing the White House by large margins in 2008 and 2012.

Late Monday morning members of a platform subcommittee voted to pass an amendment that calls for the teaching of the Christian Bible to students as a historical document that is part of American history.

 

[azgreg]

Medical Marijuana Fails To Make GOP Platform After Vigorous Debate

CLEVELAND ― Republican delegates meeting on Monday voted not to endorse medical cannabis in their party’s official platform. In the process, however, they managed to air some of the wildest unproven theories about marijuana.

 

[Chomsky]

Well, this first item sounds like totally ineffectual B.S.:

"And in a major shift, the platform would drop the pursuit of a constitutional amendment that would define marriage as between a man and a woman, opting instead to oppose the Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage and calling on the matter to be decided by the states."

And this second sounds pretty dangerous to me (in the hands of Republicans):

"Late Monday morning members of a platform subcommittee voted to pass an amendment that calls for the teaching of the Christian Bible to students as a historical document that is part of American history."

I'm surprised they went for 'the wall'.

Everything else seems more or less pretty standard GOP fair.

 

[blaxshep]

When is the GOP going to drop the religious nut jobs?

 

[BigRedChief]

When is the GOP going to drop the religious nut jobs?

Are you saying porn is not the #1 health threat to America?

 

[blaxshep]

Are you saying porn is not the #1 health threat to America?

I guess I am

 

[Chomsky]

Forgot about porn in my post upstream.

WTH is up with that?

Teach Christianity in public school & declare war on porn? Who comes-up with this stuff? It sounds like an approaching theocracy!

I really do fear what would happen if these guys get control of all three branches of government! To think I may have to vote for Hillary. Sad, really. They've got to be in this together and playing us. No one party could possibly dream-up anything this bad.

 

[Casper]

Not going to happen and IF (LOL) Trump got elected he would support none of it, he is a Democrat or did the GOP forget that minor factoid? Hardly any of their agenda would make it past lower courts not to mention the Supreme Court. Pipe Dreams are fun.

 

[Abbazorkzog]

Forgot about porn in my post upstream.

WTH is up with that?

Teach Christianity in public school & declare war on porn? Who comes-up with this stuff? It sounds like an approaching theocracy!

I really do fear what would happen if these guys get control of all three branches of government! To think I may have to vote for Hillary. Sad, really. They've got to be in this together and playing us. No one party could possibly dream-up anything this bad.

Agreed 100%.

 

[Abbazorkzog]

Not going to happen and IF (LOL) Trump got elected he would support none of it, he is a Democrat or did the GOP forget that minor factoid? Hardly any of their agenda would make it past lower courts not to mention the Supreme Court. Pipe Dreams are fun.

Glad to see people waking up to who Trump and the Democrats really are (coming from an until-recent and former Democrat).

 

[Abbazorkzog]

We The People should declare independence by rescinding political labels (Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, etc) and marching on Hillary's Washington in solidarity with one another as Americans.
It would be the ultimate and most-terrifying middle-finger delivered to a government by its so-called people in history.
When the government fears the people there is liberty.

 

[Abbazorkzog]

An interesting article that disarms any argument against the BernieOrBust movement has being 'sexist', I am sure many of my fellow Bernie-supporters will pass this 3-question test as well.