[EL] Check out Jim Bopp Supports Removing Anti-Same Sex Marriage Provisions from R

[Rick Hasen]

Jim,
My apologies for drawing the wrong inference from the article’s statement that you believed the old platform language was no longer appropriate.  I will update my post with this response from you.
(As for what it has do with election law----I post items of political interest on my blog on issues beyond election law. Indeed, I spend and have spent a great deal of time discussing Supreme Court confirmations, even though that is not election law. A few years ago we had a listserv discussion about whether I should not circulate those items, and the conclusion of that discussion was that I should still circulate those items.)
Regardless, I do apologize for misunderstanding your position from my reading of the article and will update.
Rick

From: "JBoppjr at aol.com" <JBoppjr at aol.com>
Date: Sunday, July 10, 2016 at 4:22 PM
To: Rick Hasen <rhasen at law.uci.edu>, Election Law Listserv <law-election at uci.edu>
Cc: "AlemanyJ at cbsnews.com" <AlemanyJ at cbsnews.com>
Subject: Check out Jim Bopp Supports Removing Anti-Same Sex Marriage Provisions from R

Click here: Jim Bopp Supports Removing Anti-Same Sex Marriage Provisions from Republican Party Platform | Election Law Blog<https://electionlawblog.org/?p=84163>

This is so wrong:

First, could someone tell me and, especially you Rick, what this has to do with election law.

Second, your headline is not even close to even describing what the article said.

Third, the only statement that arguably reflects any statement I made in the article is this one, of course ignoring everything else I said:

"Jim Bopp Jr., a conservative Indiana delegate on the platform, said the old platform language on same-sex marriage is no longer appropriate since last year's landmark Supreme Court ruling that allowed same-sex couples to marry nationwide."

Here the CBS Reporter failed to report the detail of my statement, making it grossly misleading.  What I said was that the sentence in the 2012 GOP platform that calls for states to adopt putting traditional marriage in their state conventions is now obsolete because of the Supreme Court decision. I then said that what we need to add to the platform, because of the Supreme Court decision on same sex marriage. is to call for that decision to be overturned.

Fourth, right after that paragraph, I said:

"This won't change the core of the issue, Bopp told CBS News."

So, come on Rick, what a ridiculous headline.  Jim Bopp



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