California GOP opposes national party’s anti-same-sex marriage platform

The California Republican Party has sparked a battle with the national GOP by proposing to remove the national party’s opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion from its state political platform.

Supporters say removing these two items will help align the California GOP platform with the values of California voters’ values while helping Republican candidates win statewide elections. However, opponents say removing the items would betray the party’s conservative values and contradict the anti-abortion and anti-gay stances of the GOP presidential candidates.

The 2020 — that is, current — national Republican platform continued the party’s opposition to same-sex marriage (even though the U.S. Supreme Court legalized it in 2015). The platform opposes the expansion of civil rights to include sexual orientation and gender identity and also supports former President Donald Trump’s transgender military ban, conversion therapy, and the right for businesses to discriminate against same-sex couples.

California’s Republican party wants to change this somewhat. In July, a state GOP committee approved the removal of platform language that says…

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