Plan B Forum

Republicans moved on Tuesday toward adopting a staunchly conservative platform that takes a strict, traditionalist view of the family and child rearing, bars military women from combat, describes coal as a “clean” energy source and declares pornography a “public health crisis.”

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What Republicans will probably end up with when they formally vote next week to ratify the platform approved in committee on Tuesday is a text that can seem almost Victorian in its moralizing and deeply critical of how the modern American family has evolved.

The platform demands that lawmakers use religion as a guide when legislating, stipulating “that man-made law must be consistent with God-given, natural rights.”

It also encourages the teaching of the Bible in public schools because, the amendment said, a good understanding of its contents is “indispensable for the development of an educated citizenry.”
(Seriously?  What other organizations do we know of that demand political policy follow their interpretation of a religious text?)

The pornography provision was not in an initial draft that the Republican National Committee drew up and released on Sunday.  But delegates added it on Monday at the same time they were inserting many ... amendments opposing gay and transgender rights.  It calls pornography “a public menace” that is especially harmful to children.
(never mind that no one, not even the SCOTUS, has been able to provide a definitive and legally unchallengable example of what is or is not pornography)

“... God-given, natural rights.”

oldr_n_wsr wrote:Not really. Not if one takes the position that God created nature.