Montana GOP Platform: Make Homosexuality Illegal
The Republican Party of Montana wants to make homosexuality illegal.
Gay rights have been rapidly advancing nationwide since the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Texas’ sodomy law in 2003’s Lawrence v. Texas decision. Gay marriage is now allowed in five states and Washington, D.C., a federal court recently ruled the military’s “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy unconstitutional, and even a conservative tea party group in Montana ousted its president over an anti-gay exchange in Facebook.
But going against the grain is the Montana GOP statement, which falls under the “Crime” section of the GOP platform. It states: “We support the clear will of the people of Montana expressed by legislation to keep homosexual acts illegal.”
This AP article seems to take the position that the Montana GOP platform is an anomaly, but in fact there are dozens of Republican Party platform statements that seek to criminalize homosexuality, in varying degrees. For example, the Texas GOP platform calls for criminalizing gay marriage.
In addition to their homophobic positions, almost all of the nation’s GOP state platforms support (and in some cases even require) the teaching of creationism in science classes, and deny that global warming exists.
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