Troubling Changes in GOP Platform

Source:  GLC Weekly 

There are substantial troubling changes in the national Republican Platform 2024, adopted yesterday, 9 July 2024, by the Republican National Committee.  The 2016 Platform (also quoted below) was strong in support of the sanctity of human life, religious freedom, rights of conscience, marriage, family, and opposition to abortion, tax-payer funding of Planned Parenthood, and stem cell research using aborted baby tissues and cells.  The 2024 Platform is much shorter, speaks little on some of these topics, recognizes state authority regarding abortion policy, but only says, “We will oppose Late Term Abortion” – leaving the door open for supporting abortion nationally in the first and second trimester. 

It appears to me that these changes are for the idolatrous purpose of gaining power and control of the federal government by abandoning fundamental beliefs and principles that have defined Republicans from the launching of the Party in the mid-1800s.  Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican president, would be shocked and deeply grieved, as I am this day.   

GLC Weekly (2024-07-10) 
Thomas W. Jacobson, Global Life Campaign