Tony Perkins Successfully Introduces Plank Supporting Anti-LGBT Conversion Therapy Into GOP Platform
Anti-Gay Hate Group Leader Again Impacts Republican National Committee Platform
Republican National Committee subcommittee members Monday voted to approve a plank embracing the use of harmful anti-LGBT conversion therapy, after it was introduced by the head of a certified anti-gay hate group. The plank will be voted on by a committee and then all RNC voting members before becoming an official part of the 2016 platform.
Family Research Council president Tony Perkins (photo, left), an RNC delegate, Monday morning met with RNC chair Reince Priebus, reportedly to discuss including the call to support medically dangerous efforts that claim to change a person’s sexual orientation.
.@tperkins talking to the press abt today’s GOP platform Meeting #RNCinCLE pic.twitter.com/HLkkZ6BKqo
— JP Duffy (@JPDuffy) July 11, 2016
Several states have banned the practice among minors, and at least one court has labeled the practice consumer fraud. The American Medical Association and most other multi-national medical organizations have denounced the practice as well.
Language: “We support the right of parents to determine the proper treatment or therapy, for their minor children.”
— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) July 11, 2016
Earlier Monday morning subcommittees voted for amendments that call for to the Bible being taught in schools, and transgender people to use the restroom of the gender they were assigned at birth, and voted to keep a call for a ban on same-sex marriage in their 2016 national platform.
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