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By: Suzanne Bowdey, published June 27, 2024, LifeNews.com\/National<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With just two weeks left until the GOP platform committee meets in Milwaukee, conservatives are preparing for what many believe will be an all-out war for the party\u2019s soul.\u00a0Rumors<\/a>\u00a0have been swirling\u00a0for months<\/a>\u00a0that a quiet army of moderates is assembling to overthrow key Republican pillars on life and marriage. And while delegates are used to having to defend core principles, insiders say this time is different. They\u2019re coming for the GOP\u2019s most basic beliefs, Family Research Council President Tony Perkins\u00a0said somberly<\/a>. \u201cI hate to tell you this, but it\u2019s true. \u2026 The Republican Party Platform is under assault.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While most of the attention is on the bright lights of the convention itself, the majority of conservatives realize that the lead-up to the big television bonanza is what makes or breaks the party. \u201cIf you change the platform,\u201d Perkins warned, \u201cyou change the party.\u201d July 8 and 9, when the document is hashed out for the first time in eight years, are \u201ccritical to keep at least one party aligned with biblical truth,\u201d he insisted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fortunately, a few stories are bubbling up that should cast some serious doubt on the wisdom of diluting the life and marriage planks. For one, Republican support for same-sex marriage is cratering. After creeping upward for the last decade or so, the bottom fell out of the issue for the GOP, dropping almost 10 points in the last two years. Only 46% of Republicans favor the idea now, down from 55% in 2022 according to\u00a0Gallup<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some of that pushback was obvious in the aftermath of the\u00a0House<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Senate<\/a>\u00a0votes on the far-left Respect for Marriage Act, when 51 Republicans abandoned their base and sided with Democrats. Together, they helped bulldoze natural marriage and gutted religious freedom \u2014 a decision that resulted in a stunning amount of backlash at home. The grassroots outrage was so intense after the first vote in July that\u00a0eight fewer House Republicans supported it on final passage<\/a>\u00a0in December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over in the Senate, the 12 Republicans who betrayed natural marriage faced\u00a0blistering criticism<\/a>\u00a0in their states. Across\u00a0Iowa<\/a>,\u00a0Wyoming, Alaska<\/a>,\u00a0Indiana<\/a>, and\u00a0North Carolina<\/a>, the urgency to \u201cdo something\u201d about the Republicans\u2019 vote intensified in the following months , as counties moved to censure and publicly excoriate members who set fire to the party\u2019s principles. Senator Thom Tillis (N.C.) even lost the party\u2019s\u00a0financial backing<\/a>. A year and a half later, Gallup\u2019s numbers show that the fury over these traitorous moves is still very much alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for the suggestion that watering down the GOP\u2019s life position would win over more voters, the primaries in South Carolina are one in a long line of stories that should put that logic to rest. Three Republican state senators who tried to filibuster the chamber\u2019s pro-life protections lost their reelection bids this month \u2014 including the longest-serving female in the senate GOP. The women, who became known as \u201cSister Senators<\/a>,\u201d refused to back the Palmetto State\u2019s lower abortion threshold, eventually costing Sandy Senn, Penry Gustafson, and Katrina Shealy their jobs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

PBS\u00a0points out<\/a>, \u201cBillboards saying Shealy was not \u2018pro-life\u2019 were all over her district in Lexington County, which led the charge to flip the state from Democratic to Republican control over the past five decades.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FRC Action Director Matt Carpenter, who watched the state\u2019s primary with interest, told The Washington Stand, \u201cUltimately, the takeaway from the defeat of these three South Carolina senators who defected from the rest of the conference on the issue of protecting the unborn is that Republican primary voters are paying attention to who is truly pro-life, and who will side with the pro-abortion Left. Protecting the unborn is just as salient an issue for Republican primary voters today as it has ever been, they won\u2019t allow the Overton Window to move left on the protection of life, and they\u2019re willing to throw out incumbents to make that point.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s hope national leaders are paying attention to these signs. As Perkins pointed out on \u201cWashington Watch\u201d Tuesday, a lot of things were pivotal to Donald Trump\u2019s 2016 support among evangelicals: releasing a list of pro-life nominees he would pick for the Supreme Court, choosing a known conservative as his running mate, and the embrace of the most conservative Republican Party Platform in history. \u201cThose three things galvanized his support.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ralph Reed, founder of the Faith & Freedom Coalition,\u00a0agreed<\/a>. \u201cI think we absolutely need a repeat\u201d in 2024, he said. \u201cWe\u2019re at an inflection point in this campaign, and in many ways, the foundation for the fall is going to be laid in the next three weeks. We have a debate taking place here in Atlanta. \u2026 And how well the president does, meaning former President Trump and how well Biden does is going to determine a lot. It\u2019ll be a key moment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second, Reed explained, \u201cis the selection of his vice presidential running mate. And the third will be the gathering in Milwaukee and the adoption of the platform. And I\u2019ve said repeatedly \u2026 and I know that you\u2019ve said similar things \u2014 that if the Republican Party and the Trump campaign send a message of equivocation or retreat on the historic defense of innocent human life by the Republican Party \u2014 [which] I believe [is] the most important position of this party other than its opposition to slavery \u2014 it will make it harder to turn these voters out in the fall.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suzanne Bowdey serves as editorial director and senior writer of The Washington Stand<\/a>, where the article originally appeared<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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