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GOP Adds Anti-Gay Marriage Plank to Platform
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Aug 25, 2004 05:41pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Wednesday, August 25, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Measure Part of Conservatives' Efforts to Influence Republican Convention
By Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 25, 2004; 4:12 PM
NEW YORK, Aug. 25 -- Republican activists sharpened their party's opposition to gay marriage Wednesday only hours after Vice President Cheney defended such unions. The action was among several steps that conservatives took to firmly place their stamp on the GOP platform ahead of next week's convention, where the long list of moderate speakers has irked some on the party's right.
At the outset of the two-day platform hearings, Republican delegates reaffirmed long-standing planks that have stalled in Congress, such as allowing prayer in public schools and amending the Constitution to ban abortion. But they added a second proposed constitutional amendment -- to bar same-sex marriage -- which President Bush embraced this year. At the urging of conservative groups such as the Family Research Council, the platform subcommittee on family issues went further in tone and detail than did the original draft, assembled by GOP staffers.
Unless rewritten by the full 110-member platform committee tonight or Thursday, the marriage section will condemn "a few judges and local authorities" who presume to change "the most fundamental institution of civilization." It will say same-sex couples should not receive legal benefits set aside for married couples, and it calls on the Senate to join the House in voting to strip federal courts of the authority to overturn state laws banning gay marriage. |
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