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2016 GOP Platform Lays It Bare: Today's Republican Party is an Anti-LGBT Hate Group

The Republican Party has done it again, taking a big step toward approval of its most staunchly anti-LGBT, hateful platform of all time.

The platform includes provisions supporting state laws to restrict transgender rights on bathroom use, support of conversion therapy for gay people "by saying that parents should be free to make medical decisions about their children without interference," according to the New York Times. It also says "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."

The paper adds, n"early 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.'"

When gay Republican delegate Rachel Hoff attempted to add language that specifically noted LGBT people as targets of the Islamic state it was shot down by conservative delegates "who said they felt there was no need to single out any one group."

The battle for the platform was combative, particularly on these issues, but social conservatives won the day over pro-LGBT delegates with Paul Singers American Unity Fund.

CNN reports:

"Through hours of debate on topics ranging from federal lands to immigration to the economy to family values, a handful of delegates gathered for Platform Committee meetings ahead of next weeks Republican National Convention repeatedly challenged their peers to moderate provisions affecting gay and lesbian Americans. They were for the most part rebuffed by the 112-member panel, which approved a GOP platform that opposes same-sex marriage rights, supports efforts to restrict bathrooms to individuals birth gender and protects businesses who refuse services to individuals based on religious objections to gay marriage.

After failing repeatedly in their efforts, the group was buoyed by the number of delegates who voted in their favor, including about 20 delegates raising their hands in support of a proposal from D.C. delegate Rachel Hoff to revamp the partys position on marriage to broaden the language to include 'diverse' views on marriage and support the 'strength of all families'. While raising the amendment, Hoff also emotionally made public to her peers that she was gay. New York delegate Annie Dickerson said the GOP Platform Committee has been resisting an obvious trend in the country toward gay rights, calling same-sex marriage 'settled law,' saying it is only a matter of time before federal nondiscrimination statutes protecting LGBT rights are enacted."

Other things in the platform: approval for a border wall along Mexico, support for teaching the Bible as a historical document in public schools, an order that lawmakers use religion as a guide when legislating, criticism of President Obama as weak, barring women from combat in the military, and a denunciation of pornography as a 'public menace' which is harmful to children.

But the moderates will be heard at the convention, guaranteeing that these social issues will come up front and center: 'The partys approach to social issues now threatens to disrupt the convention next week. Moderate delegates pushing for gay rights language in the platform secured enough signatures on Tuesday to demand a vote on their proposals from all 2,475 delegates.'"

The Log Cabin Republicans sent out this fundraising email shortly after the Party of Hates platform was approved:

"Theres no way to sugar-coat this: Im mad as hell and I know you are, too.

Moments ago, the Republican Party passed the most anti-LGBT Platform in the Partys 162-year history. Opposition to marriage equality, nonsense about bathrooms, an endorsement of the debunked psychological practice of 'pray the gay away' its all in there.

This isnt my GOP, and I know its not yours either. Heck, its not even Donald Trumps! When given a chance to follow the lead of our presumptive presidential nominee and reach out to the LGBT community in the wake of the awful terrorist massacre in Orlando on the gay nightclub Pulse, the Platform Committee said NO.

BUTnow is not the time to sit around feeling sorry for ourselves. Log Cabin Republicans has been officially credentialed for the Republican National Convention, and when it convenes in Cleveland in a mere 6 days time I want to be able to take a stand, but were going to need your support to do it.

Cleveland is rightly making the most of their time in the spotlight, and prices for advertising in area news outlets are sky-high. Thats why Im writing to ask for your help.

Please give today and give generously $500, $250, $100, or whatever you can give would go a long way to ensuring we dont go quietly into the night.

Take back the Platform. Take back the Party. Stand up today and let the folks on the Platform Committee who paved the way to this foolishness know youre not going down without a fight!

Sincerely,

Gregory T. Angelo

President"

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I might sound like a "racist" broken record.

I don't give a flying F&CK!!!!!

THIS is why I say now is NOT the time to play with your votes. This is why NOW is NOT the time to throw away a vote on this Jill chick or some other 3rd party that stands NO chance of winning. THIS is why I say now is NOT the time because the last thing we need is President Trump appointing NUTS to the Supreme Court that will screw this country over for a generation that will probably vote for some of this insane shit.

HILLARY 2016 BITCHES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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And these Log Cabin Republicans need to take a stand and ditch this freakin party already. It's embarrassing at this point.

They should show up to the convention in Hillary tees.

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Pud Whacker, on 13 Jul 2016 - 8:21 PM, said:

shes horrid. she should be picked up with the garbage tomorrow morning.

You know she is the wind beneath your wings.

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this FAT BITCH has anything to say? this FILTHY SCHWEIN is trying to rally a community against someone?

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She's a fat fucking piece of shit.

About gay marriage, she said "..gay men.. they like to move around...that's part of being a gay man.. so if they're married that means they're not going to cheat? .... I'm really wondering what the commitment is going to be about."

AND THAT DUMB FAT FUCKING BITCH DOESN"T WONDER ABOUT HETEROSEXUAL COMMITMENT?

SOUNDS TO ME LIKE SHE'S A HOMOPHOBIC PIECE OF SHIT.

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The convention on its first day is already such a mess! :rotfl:

Published on Jul 18, 2016

The floor of the Republican National Convention erupted into chaos Monday amid an attempt by the Never Trump forces to change the rules of the event, but the efforts were defeated, thwarting the movement to stop the real estate mogul's path to the nomination.

Delegates engaged in dueling chants of "roll call vote" and "USA" on the floor after the chair forced a voice vote, and judged that those who favored the existing rules prevailed. Colorado's delegation even walked off of the floor in protest amid the chaos.

The push to force a roll call vote, therefore, was defeated, eliminating the last available avenue for Never Trump forces to unbind delegates. Trump has amassed more than 1,237 delegates through the primary season -- enough to secure the nomination outright.

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Yeah I personally never knew Bette made comments like this.

Pretty sad and ignorant as hell of her.

She of all people should know better.

I can kind of understand where she's coming from, back in her time gays didn't feel the need to mimic hetro relationships - they didn't want to mainstream. Legally they couldn't, but it didn't seem to matter. It wasn't seen as a natural progression from the sexual revolution where one could determine their own relationships free from biblical notions of chastity and ownership - especially the marginalised and stigmatised gays. Sharing of partners, etc. and other loose arrangements were big part of gay culture, as Larry Kramer's Faggots described. Then Aids came along and things had to change. But this is the period in which Midler grew up in NYC, singing in gay bathhouses and no doubt having many gay friends who were of that disposition.

BUT of course, times have changed and a lot of middle and upper class gays have made it their life's mission to advance gay marriage as THE issue for gays, and mainstreaming of homosexuality has well and truly taken off.

I guess she should have been more sympathetic of the modern gay and been less flippant?

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I'm sometimes envious of the passion that must drive these people. I wish I had the guts and strong conviction to wear a flag cape with my arms akimbo.

The convention on its first day is already such a mess! :rotfl:

Published on Jul 18, 2016

The floor of the Republican National Convention erupted into chaos Monday amid an attempt by the Never Trump forces to change the rules of the event, but the efforts were defeated, thwarting the movement to stop the real estate mogul's path to the nomination.

Delegates engaged in dueling chants of "roll call vote" and "USA" on the floor after the chair forced a voice vote, and judged that those who favored the existing rules prevailed. Colorado's delegation even walked off of the floor in protest amid the chaos.

The push to force a roll call vote, therefore, was defeated, eliminating the last available avenue for Never Trump forces to unbind delegates. Trump has amassed more than 1,237 delegates through the primary season -- enough to secure the nomination outright.

The Establishment do not want Trump's downfall to be on their hands. They want him to fail on his own. If there is even a whiff of silly buggers, and their man was to the fall, the rabid base will riot.

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