New campaign aims to strike anti-gay language from GOP platform
A coalition of young conservatives has launched a new $1 million initiative in an attempt to keep anti-gay marriage language out the 2016 Republican Party platform.
On Wednesday, Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry announced the campaign to reform the party platform in a way that would remove the anti-gay language found in five sections of the 2012 document and replace it with language that embraces differing views within the party on same-sex marriage.
Tyler Deaton, campaign manager for the Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry, said in a statement the new language is an attempt to “modernize the party.”
“Our aim is to make the national platform less divisive toward gay people and their families — and more focused on unifying all conservatives around our core beliefs of freedom, family and limited government,” Deaton said. “The future of the party is clear on the marriage issue — a seismic shift is already underway in support of the freedom to marry.”
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