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

[Thomas J. Cares]

There was also this in the NY Times (Singer's "respect for all families"
sounds nice, and well worth 4 words, to me):

Paul E. Singer, a billionaire Republican who has financed gay rights
battles across the country, is now funding an effort to write into the
platform language more inclusive of gays, lesbians and transgender people.
The goal of his group, the American Unity Fund, is not to get the party to
endorse same-sex marriage but to add a more open-ended statement that
commits the party “to respect for all families,” though there is still
fierce resistance from the right.
“We don’t have to say we’re tolerant because we are tolerant of other
views,” said James Bopp Jr., a member of the platform committee from
Indiana who has long supported efforts to make the platform more strongly
in favor of traditional marriage. Such language promoting tolerance, he
added, would be “redundant and superfluous.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/11/us/politics/donald-trump-republican-party.html

On Monday, July 11, 2016, <JBoppjr at aol.com> wrote:

> 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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