California Republican Party May Drop Opposition to Same-Sex Marriage

metroweekly.com:

The California Republican Party is currently at odds with the national Republican Party after proposing to remove opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion – two longstanding mainstays of the national platform – from its state party platform.Supporters of the proposed change say that removing those two prominent social issues from the state’s political platform would put the state GOP’s official position more in line with the values held by most California voters.

Opponents argue that by removing those topics, the state party’s stances would contradict those held by most of the party’s presidential candidates and betray values or beliefs that are deeply held by the party’s conservative base.The 2016 Republican national party platform, which still stands today as the party’s guiding document, opposes same-sex nuptials despite bans prohibiting such marriages having been struck down by the U.S.

Supreme Court in 2015. In addition to opposing gay marriage and abortion, the GOP platform also advocates for the restrictions on LGBTQ visibility and transgender rights, supporting the now-defunct Trump administration ban on military personnel, and the right of business owners to refuse or deny services to customers based on sincerely held religious beliefs opposing same-sex marriage, homosexuality, or the concept of gender identity.But after years of lacking electoral victories for statewide positions, the California GOP appears to be moving away from the national party’s more unpopular, socially conservative stances, according to the Los Angeles Times.