Social conservatives win on GOP platform

The GOP adopted a platform Monday that takes a hard line on issues like abortion and gay rights, a sign that Donald Trump has ceded the party’s social agenda to evangelical Christians despite his own ambivalence on those matters.

Republicans’ 2016 platform calls out pornography as a national problem “destroying millions of lives,” and declines to even allude to gay or LGBT rights — instead demanding that “traditional marriage” be defended from an activist judiciary. Abortion, on the other hand, gets some three dozen mentions, with the platform accusing Democrats of “almost limitless support” of the practice and President Barack Obama’s healthcare law of promoting “the notion of abortion as healthcare.”

Trump himself hasn’t campaigned much on those kinds of issues, after calling himself “very pro-choice” in the late 1990s and getting praise from the Log Cabin Republicans as perhaps the most pro-gay GOP candidate to ever seek the White House. He now calls himself “pro-life with exceptions” and has slammed the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision to legalize same-sex marriage...
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/gop-platform-social-conservatives-225782