On LGBT rights, the more things change, the more the GOP platform stays the same

Daily Kos Staff

Monday July 11, 2016 · 3:40 PM PDT

2016/07/11 · 15:40

WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 06: RNC Chairman Reince Priebus participates in a Politico Playbook breakfast forum, May 6, 2016 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

The Republican platform committee took time out of its pressing food stamp/junk food discussion Monday to make sure the proposed platform is still firmly rooted in the 20th Century when it comes to LGBT rights. The New York Times obtained an early draft of the heartwarming language:

The data and the facts lead to an inescapable conclusion: that every child deserves a married mom and dad. [...] Our laws and our government’s regulations should recognize marriage as the union of one man and one woman and actively promote married family life as the basis of a stable and prosperous society. For that reason, as explained elsewhere in the platform, we do not accept the Supreme Court’s redefinition of marriage and we urge its reversal, whether through judicial reconsideration or a constitutional amendment returning control over marriage to states.

But don't worry, professional homo-hater Tony Perkins is going to fix it so no one has to be discriminated against—he successfully introduced a plank supporting the now thoroughly discredited gay conversion therapy.

Language: "We support the right of parents to determine the proper treatment or therapy, for their minor children."
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) July 11, 2016

Perkins and others were reportedly extremely successful in turning back all efforts thus far to moderate the platform on LGBT issues. Igor Bobic has a good write up of Monday’s action.

Oh, and let's not forget transphobia, because transgender Americans are power-hungry egomaniacs who are "determined" to end life as we know it:

We emphatically support the original, authentic meaning of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972. [...] That same provision of the law is now being used by bureaucrats — and by the current president of the United States — to impose a social and cultural revolution upon the American people. Their agenda has nothing to do with individual rights; it has everything to do with power. They are determined to reshape our schools — and our entire society — to fit the mold of an ideology alien to America’s history and traditions. Their edict to the states concerning restrooms, locker rooms and other facilities is at once illegal, ominous, and ignores privacy issues.

The storm is coming folks, and the GOP platform might be the only thing standing in the way of America’s ultimate destruction.

On LGBT rights, the more things change, the more the GOP platform stays the same

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