Team McCain Claims They Won’t Tamper with Stances on Abortion & Same-Sex Marriage
John McCain’s campaign is telling anyone who will listen that they will not try to change any of the social positions in the Republican Platform at this years convention:
SANTA ANNA PUEBLO, N.M.— Advisers to Sen. John McCain’s presidential bid say he will not try to “soften” the Republican party’s platform on abortion and same-sex marriage to appeal to more voters.
McCain associates told The Washington Times that his operatives are not going to work behind the scenes to eliminate the party’s calls for constitutional bans on abortion and homosexual marriage before the GOP convention in September.
The GOP’s 2004 platform opposes same-sex marriage, saying “the well-being of children is best accomplished in the environment of the home, nurtured by their mother and father anchored by the bonds of marriage.”
Its plank on abortion is that “the unborn child has a fundamental individual right to life, which cannot be infringed. … Our purpose is to have legislative and judicial protection of that right against those who perform abortions.”
Changes in any way that weaken those 2 fundamental positions, would not be looked at favorably and would do a lot of damage to McCain’s chances in November. Bob Dole did try to adjust the GOP positions in 1992 when he was about to assume control of the Party as the nominee, that didn’t go to well for him.
– ‘The Commish’ A.J. Sparxx