Hate Group Alarmed That Trump Campaign May Soften Anti-LGBTQ And Anti-Abortion Stances In GOP Platform

Posted to the Family Research Council’s website:

In a major departure from past years, news broke over the weekend that the Trump team is trying to “streamline” the GOP platform, telling delegates that it should be short, clear, and concise — code, some worry, for leaving core principles behind. Adding to the alarm, this year’s platform committee meetings will be held in near-secrecy — a radical change from the past.

As NPR warns, “The debate won’t be out in the open, as has happened in the past. This year the platform committee will meet a week before the convention and it will be closed to the press.” That’s also led to concerns that social conservatives will be strong-armed into supporting a diluted document, a point The Washington Post raised.

And it’s not just the unborn who stand to be left behind, but the growing number of Republicans who are opposed to extremism like same-sex marriage and transgenderism. Of course, no one is quite sure what the former president’s team is envisioning since draft language for the platform hasn’t been widely circulated in advance of the platform meetings which kick off Sunday, July 7.

Read the full article. The piece goes on to note that FRC president Tony Perkins will once again sit on the platform committee and he obviously fears that that Trump’s team will ignore or override his objections to any changes.

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