The Republican Party has decided to continue ignoring passionate pleas from some of its own members to move in a more inclusive direction.
The GOP’s platform committee met in Cleveland this week to finalize the party’s official platform in advance of its convention next week. The final draft of that platform, essentially its principles document, includes a focus on the “traditional” definition of marriage, seeks to overturn the Supreme Court ruling allowing gay marriage, calls for women to be barred from military combat and fails to acknowledge the rights of and protections for LGBT individuals.
Throughout the week, the platform committee and its subcommittees rejected repeated efforts by some committee members to remove hateful language with regard to the gay community and refused to add more inclusive language or at least language that acknowledges or condemns LGBT or gender discrimination.
