Wednesday, July 13, 2016

GOP platform fight gets heated over LGBT rights

Republicans crafting a party platform on Monday argued over religious liberty, gay marriage and LGBT rights, highlighting divisions in the party over social issues.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus and Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), chairman of the Platform Committee, floated in and out of conference rooms at the cavernous Huntington Convention Center to oversee the skirmishes that broke out among delegates over the party’s policy planks.

The most heated exchanges took place in a subcommittee responsible for laying out the GOP platform on social issues....
http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/287271-gop-platform-fight-gets-heated-over-lgbt-rights


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