Log Cabin Republicans in New Hampshire are once again proposing to strike the anti-marriage equality provision from the state’s Republican party platform.
“I think it would be a very important step for the Republican Party in New Hampshire to take that step,” the Granite State chapter’s Jim Morgan told Manchester TV station WMUR-9. Morgan is also a Derry Town Councilor.
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Morgan told New Hampshire Primary Source that the Log Cabin Republicans, now in its third year, is reaching out to gay conservatives while also “doing everything we can to broaden our inclusivity within the within the Republican Party and make the gay community a factor in Republican politics.”
Last year, Jennifer Horn, a former state Republican Party chair who was chair of the Log Cabin Republicans at the time, attempted to propose to the state GOP convention that it drop from its platform a long-standing plank that says: “Recognize marriage as the legal and sacred union between one man and one woman as ordained by God, encouraged by the state and traditional to humankind, and the core of the family.”
But the proposal was never voted on because Horn was disqualified as a delegate due to a residency controversy.
The next convention will not be held until May 2020, but Morgan said it is not too early for the discussion to begin on the possibility of dropping the statement.
“The marriage definition, obviously for the LGBT community is important,” he said. “It’s important that we have that terminology taken off the platform.”
Rather than change the language, “I’m of the opinion and our board is of the opinion that if there are going to be any changes to the marriage definition, that we just drop it from the platform. The reality is that it’s really unnecessary for it to be there.”
With the convention 10 months away, “We have the opportunity to talk to people and to communicate that that type of an action would be tremendously inclusive of the party and it wouldn’t be insulting to some of the party hard-liners who are there.”
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