Trumpstablishment allows social conservatives to be mocked at the national convention
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As I wrote earlier this week, the Republican Party has one of the most pro-life, pro-natural marriage, and pro-religious liberty platforms ever, but this doesn’t mean anything if the Party isn’t going to make these issues a priority. If the priorities set by the Party during the week of the convention are an indication of a Trump administration’s future priorities, then traditional values are in for a rocky road ahead.
On the other hand, less than an hour before Trump’s acceptance speech, Peter Thiel — the same guy who tried to strong-arm Governor Pat McCrory in North Carolina on transgender bathrooms — got up to tell the Party and the nation “who cares” about the Left’s transgender bathroom push and that “fake culture wars only distract us from our economic decline.”
Let’s put aside for a moment the fact that he called the First Amendment and one of the worst government-sanctioned human rights violations on earth “distractions.” The fact that the GOP put this message up during primetime during its own convention and the applause it received from the floor—just a night after an appeal to conscience was booed offstage—should tell values voters everything they need to know about their future in this party.
Now, to be fair, values issues weren’t COMPLETELY ignored.
Family Research Council president Tony Perkins, who was a key player in many of the platform’s most conservative positions on unborn life, natural marriage, and religious liberty spoke Wednesday night, and Liberty University president Jerry Fallwell Jr. gave addresses on religious liberty and the protection of unborn life, respectively, and Falwell even talked about repealing the Johnson Amendment, a tax code provision that inhibits the free speech of churches and other nonprofit organizations.
However, both were on and off the stage early in the show, ensuring that they wouldn’t be seen by primetime viewers.
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It’s clear from the attempted insurgency over the platform language to the Thiel’s speech that the Republican Party is no longer united on issues of religious liberty or natural marriage, even if it is still largely united on life. But messaging matters, and the message that the RNC sent to social conservatives is that they’ll get next to nothing and like it.
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Trumpstablishment allows social conservatives to be mocked at the national convention #RNCinCLE https://t.co/Gv93pU10NP
— Nate Madden (@NateMadden_IV) July 22, 2016
Most offensive thing I've ever had a politician say to me was last night's "great it turns out you're not for executing gays after all."
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