The document affirms ”the incompatibility of homosexuality with military service.”
It calls ”for a constitutional amendment that fully protects marriage as a union of a man and a woman, so that judges cannot make other arrangements equivalent to it.”
”In the absence of a national amendment, we support the right of the people of the various states to affirm traditional marriage through state initiatives,” it says.
”We also urge Congress to use its Article III, Section 2 power to prevent activist federal judges from imposing upon the rest of the nation the judicial activism in Massachusetts and California.”
The platform endorses the Boy Scouts’ anti-gay policies, saying, ”We support the First Amendment right of freedom of association of the Boy Scouts of America and other service organizations whose values are under assault, and we call upon the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to reverse its policy of blacklisting religious groups which decline to arrange adoptions by same-sex couples.”
Nonetheless, the GLBT group Log Cabin Republicans endorsed Republican nominee John McCain for president on Sept. 2.
The group’s national board of directors voted 12 to 2 for the endorsement.
”On the most important issue that LGBT Americans faced in the last decade — the federal marriage amendment — Sen. John McCain stood with us. Now we stand with him,” said LCR President Patrick Sammon. ”Sen. McCain is an inclusive Republican who is focusing the GOP on unifying core principles that appeal to independent voters.”
”Sen. McCain is a different kind of Republican,” Sammon claimed. ”He understands the GOP lost its majority in Congress in 2006 largely because the party focused on divisive social issues. Sen. McCain knows the politics of fear and division will damage our party and our nation.”
”We have honest disagreements with Sen. McCain on a number of gay rights issues,” Sammon acknowledged. ”Log Cabin will continue our conversation with him. … Sen. McCain has always shown a willingness to reach out and engage in dialogue with Log Cabin, while considering all sides of an issue. We know that will continue when he is president.”
Sammon predicted McCain ”will receive strong support from gay and lesbian Americans.”
”LGBT people are not single-issue voters,” he said, arguing that McCain will do a better job than Barack Obama in areas such as foreign policy, the economy, jobs, energy policy, health care reform and taxes.
Uppdaterad 2016-11-16
