“The Republican Party of California needs to get with the times,” Charles Moran, a delegate from Los Angeles County, said. “We need to get modern.”
“The plank is still pro-life, but it’s not vitriolic and demonizing people who do choose to have an abortion,” he said of the draft platform. “It still talks about the necessity to have a two-parent household and to have two people in a committed relationship, but it doesn’t necessarily say that if you are pro-gay marriage or even support traditional marriage that you don’t have a home in the Republican Party.
Harmeet Dhillon, National Committeewoman of the Republican National Committee for California, is among those pushing to keep the platform “as is.” “They really care about it. We cannot afford to lose them,” she said. “And it is the wrong thing to do to be Democrat-light.” In the current platform, marriage is addressed in a section titled “Family.” It states, in part: “We support the two-parent family as the best environment for raising children, and therefore believe that it is important to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman.”
It also says, “we support laws that protect unborn children from partial birth, sex selection, and taxpayer funded abortions, and abortions performed as a form of birth control or on minor girls without their parents’ notification and consent.” And “we support adoption as an alternative to abortion and call on lawmakers to reduce the bureaucratic burden placed on adoptive couples.”
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