GOP Maintains Anti-Gay Party Platform In 2016

[HillaryJtrump]

Republican delegates tasked with drafting the party’s official platform on Monday rebuffed several efforts aimed at bringing the GOP into the 21st century ― at least on paper...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...b0344d515068ab

Republican Platform: Ban Gay Adoption

Republicans recently formed their party platform. One Republican, Annie Dickerson, tried to persuade the committee to support gay adoption. She failed. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.

"But the Perkins wing was met with vocal opposition from Annie Dickerson, an adviser to billionaire GOP donor Paul Singer, who is a proponent of same-sex marriage and other issues championed by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

Dickerson fumed as her socially liberal proposals went down and the socially conservative measures she opposed sailed through the subcommittee.

At one point, Dickerson, who has adopted children, accused others on the committee of “blatant discrimination” over an amendment that would keep publicly funded adoption agencies from giving custody of children to gay couples.

“We need children to be adopted, so hooray to the gay community for trying to raise children in a happy and stable home,” Dickerson said. “I object to allowing patent discrimination against gays over the right to adopt. … This is blatant discrimination and should not be in our platform.”

Dickerson lost that battle and essentially every other battle she waged. At times she stared down Perkins and expressed exasperation after votes went against her.

“Unbelievable,” she said after the adoption measure passed.”*

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign...er-lgbt-rights

[Deletedaccount1]

Linking TYT and Secular Talk videos is a good way of finding out whose opinion I shouldn't take seriously.

[primalmatter]

Well it does harm a society to promote homosexuality. Even more so on one that has a low birthrate from a lack of work that carries a meaningful wage.

[Deleted]

Well it does harm a society to promote homosexuality.

No. But it hurts a party to stick to outdated values that less and less people share.

[primalmatter]

Where are the statistics/studies on this? I would love to read some that come from reputable papers.

I am sure there are some if you want to look them up. I don't bother with googling free articles at people anymore on web forums.

I can't see how promoting homosexuality rather then frowning at it helps the population rates.

[Kujako]

In the words of Homer Simpson, "I hate the public so much.... if only they'd vote for me, I'd make them all pay."

[Underverse]

Well it does harm a society to promote homosexuality. Even more so on one that has a low birthrate from a lack of work that carries a meaningful wage.

No. It does harm to promote shitty cultures. Gay culture is kind of shitty. Homosexual behavior isn't a problem.

[Healing Rain]

It's not anti-gay to say that homosexual marriage does not exist and that homosexuality is the antithesis to marriage. It's refusing to lie to homosexuals, unlike the Democrats and the 5 Obergerfell justices.

[primalmatter]

No. But it hurts a party to stick to outdated values that less and less people share.

Do they?

I honestly don't know anymore. For a time it was all the rage but I find people are growing more and more weary of it. It isn't so much they have anything against homosexuals they are just tired of listening to people with wisps and naked men parading through the street once a year getting each other off in public.

Granted that could just be my area.

[Deletedaccount1]

No. It does harm to promote shitty cultures. Gay culture is kind of shitty. Homosexual behavior isn't a problem.

Yeah I agree. I don't understand why a group that wants to be accepted as normal tries to promote themselves in very strange ways.

[Deleted]

Well it does harm a society to promote homosexuality. Even more so on one that has a low birthrate from a lack of work that carries a meaningful wage.

People don't turn homosexual just because it's not frowned upon. This has to be the stupidest thing I've read in a while.

[sheggaro]

I am sure there are some if you want to look them up. I don't bother with googling free articles at people anymore on web forums.

I can't see how promoting homosexuality rather then frowning at it helps the population rates.

Because gays don't procreate anyway?

What the woman in the article says is pretty dead on I think. We have kids who need homes, yet we do not allow gay parents to adopt them, because they're gay.

Blatant stupidity.

[Imnick]

I am sure there are some if you want to look them up. I don't bother with googling free articles at people anymore on web forums.

I can't see how promoting homosexuality rather then frowning at it helps the population rates.

Why are you associating "high birth rates" with "good society"?
How is blocking already existing gay couples from adopting going to increase birth rates?
This is nonsense.

Legislating against rights for gay people does not decrease the number of gay people, it just continues to uphold an unequal status quo.

[Kujako]

Because gays don't procreate anyway?

Homosexuality does not render one sterile.

[Deleted]

What I find really telling and worrying is how in America having homophobic views could be considered a useful tactic in gaining votes. Over here publicly showing homophobia is political suicide

[primalmatter]

People don't turn homosexual just because it's not frowned upon. This has to be the stupidest thing I've read in a while.

No but they suppress it.

Use common sense rather then trying to dismiss people.

[sheggaro]

Homosexuality does not render one sterile.

Yeah.. but I'm pretty sure most gays don't procreate.

For painfully obvious reasons.

[Underverse]

Yeah I agree. I don't understand why a group that wants to be accepted as normal tries to promote themselves in very strange ways.

Because like most minority groups, they (we?) fight fire with fire. Always the wrong decision.

[sheggaro]

What I find really telling and worrying is how in America having homophobic views could be considered a useful tactic in gaining votes. Over here publicly showing homophobia is political suicide

Your country wasn't founded by Puritans.

In fact you sent them here. (sort of)

[Deleted]

Do they?

I honestly don't know anymore. For a time it was all the rage but I find people are growing more and more weary of it. It isn't so much they have anything against homosexuals they are just tired of listening to people with wisps and naked men parading through the street once a year getting each other off in public.

Granted that could just be my area.

I think you're talking bollocks again