Hate Group Leader Tony Perkins wrote the marriage plank for the convention platform
Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council, says he wrote the Republican National Committee’s marriage plank for the RNC platform. Perkins, head of the certified anti-gay hate group, told Buzzfeed, “You should read the entire plank on marriage, which I wrote. I feel very happy about it. I feel pretty optimistic about the outcome here.”
The marriage plank includes language calling for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would permanently ban same-sex marriage throughout the nation, presumably forcibly divorcing currently married same-sex couples — a key element of the National Organization For Marriage’s (NOM) ”marriage pledge” signed by presumptive GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney and most other GOP presidential candidates. The marriage plank also attacks President Obama’s decision to not defend in court DOMA, the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which the President and Attorney General, along with several federal courts, including dozens of federal justices, have all found to be unconstitutional.
The entire RNC platform — crafted every four years ahead of the Republican National Committee’s presidential nominating convention, was edited by fraudulent historian David Barton, according to sources familiar with the event. Barton’s claim to fame is that he believes the Constitution comes directly from the Bible
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GOP votes down civil unions
Posted by Rosalind S. Helderman on August 21, 2012 at 10:09 am
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TAMPA–The Republican party platform will continue to call for a constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex unions, after a drafting committee rejected an attempt to allow for civil unions for gays and lesbians.
A loud majority of the committee opposed the amendment in a voice vote.
Discussion continues in the committee of other amendments that would also soften the party’s platform language on marriage.
Barbara Ann Fenton of Rhode Island suggested that the 112 members of the GOP platform committee endorse new language that would call for religions to define marriage in their own way but allow government to offer civil unions to both heterosexual and homosexual couples.
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