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| CLEVELAND — Republicans moved closer on Tuesday toward adopting a platform that takes a strict, traditionalist view of the family and child rearing, prohibits military women from serving in combat roles and declares pornography to be a “public health crisis.” | CLEVELAND — Republicans moved closer on Tuesday toward adopting a platform that takes a strict, traditionalist view of the family and child rearing, prohibits military women from serving in combat roles and declares pornography to be a “public health crisis.” |
| It is a platform that at times seems to channel the bellicosity of the presumptive nominee, Donald J. Trump, with its calls to “destroy ISIS” and its belittling of the Obama administration as weak and inviting attacks from adversaries. | It is a platform that at times seems to channel the bellicosity of the presumptive nominee, Donald J. Trump, with its calls to “destroy ISIS” and its belittling of the Obama administration as weak and inviting attacks from adversaries. |
| But, in other places, the document veers far to the right of Mr. Trump’s beliefs, especially as it addresses gay men, lesbians and transgender people. As delegates debated in two marathon sessions on Monday and Tuesday, they repeatedly rejected efforts by more moderate members of the Platform Committee to add language that would acknowledge antigay discrimination — something Mr. Trump has done himself. | But, in other places, the document veers far to the right of Mr. Trump’s beliefs, especially as it addresses gay men, lesbians and transgender people. As delegates debated in two marathon sessions on Monday and Tuesday, they repeatedly rejected efforts by more moderate members of the Platform Committee to add language that would acknowledge antigay discrimination — something Mr. Trump has done himself. |
| What Republicans will most likely end up with when they formally vote next week to ratify the platform is a text heavy on moralizing and highly conservative in its views on gender roles, homosexuality and the protection of religious expression in government service. | What Republicans will most likely end up with when they formally vote next week to ratify the platform is a text heavy on moralizing and highly conservative in its views on gender roles, homosexuality and the protection of religious expression in government service. |
| The pornography provision was not in an initial draft that the Republican National Committee drew up and released on Sunday. But delegates added it in on Monday at the same time they were inserting many of the amendments opposing gay and transgender rights. It calls pornography “a public menace” that is especially harmful to children. | The pornography provision was not in an initial draft that the Republican National Committee drew up and released on Sunday. But delegates added it in on Monday at the same time they were inserting many of the amendments opposing gay and transgender rights. It calls pornography “a public menace” that is especially harmful to children. |
| Delegates approved one measure that defended chaplains in the armed forces and their rights to possess Bibles on military installations. Another said that “military readiness should not be sacrificed at the altar of political correctness.” | Delegates approved one measure that defended chaplains in the armed forces and their rights to possess Bibles on military installations. Another said that “military readiness should not be sacrificed at the altar of political correctness.” |
| One amendment also encouraged the teaching of the Bible in public schools because, the amendment said, a good understanding of its contents is “indispensable for the development of an educated citizenry.” | One amendment also encouraged the teaching of the Bible in public schools because, the amendment said, a good understanding of its contents is “indispensable for the development of an educated citizenry.” |
| Much of the most combative debate centered on language in the platform that describes gay and transgender people, and efforts to strip those words out and replace them with what a minority contingent of socially moderate delegates proposed. | |
| An amendment to specifically recognize that gay people are targets of the Islamic State caused a stir among more conservative delegates who said they felt there was no need to single out any one group. As the delegate who offered the amendment, Giovanni Cicione of Rhode Island, argued his case — by saying he believed it was an “innocuous and important” way to tell gay people the Republican Party does not exclude them — another delegate moved to shut off the debate. | An amendment to specifically recognize that gay people are targets of the Islamic State caused a stir among more conservative delegates who said they felt there was no need to single out any one group. As the delegate who offered the amendment, Giovanni Cicione of Rhode Island, argued his case — by saying he believed it was an “innocuous and important” way to tell gay people the Republican Party does not exclude them — another delegate moved to shut off the debate. |
| Jim Bopp, a delegate from Indiana, said the Republican Party had always rejected “identity politics.” Arguing against the measure, he said, “Obviously there’s an agenda here.” | Jim Bopp, a delegate from Indiana, said the Republican Party had always rejected “identity politics.” Arguing against the measure, he said, “Obviously there’s an agenda here.” |
| The amendment was defeated. | The amendment was defeated. |
| The platform that Republicans were on track to advance included provisions that promoted state laws to limit which restrooms transgender people could use, nodded to “conversion therapy” for gays by saying that parents should be free to make medical decisions about their children without interference and stated that “natural marriage” between a man and a woman is most likely to result in offspring who do not become drug-addicted or otherwise damaged. | The platform that Republicans were on track to advance included provisions that promoted state laws to limit which restrooms transgender people could use, nodded to “conversion therapy” for gays by saying that parents should be free to make medical decisions about their children without interference and stated that “natural marriage” between a man and a woman is most likely to result in offspring who do not become drug-addicted or otherwise damaged. |
| If Mr. Trump, who has children with three different wives, does not share all of the party’s most socially conservative stances, he could certainly be heartened by other additions to the platform, especially on national security and defense. | If Mr. Trump, who has children with three different wives, does not share all of the party’s most socially conservative stances, he could certainly be heartened by other additions to the platform, especially on national security and defense. |
| One section is titled “A Dangerous World,” echoing Mr. Trump’s assertions of the unstable nature of current geopolitics. There are references to the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that left four American personnel dead, and condemnations of the Obama administration — accusing it of mishandling its Middle East policy and destabilizing the region. There is specific reference to the failings of “the secretary of state” — a jab at Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump’s presumed Democratic Party opponent. | One section is titled “A Dangerous World,” echoing Mr. Trump’s assertions of the unstable nature of current geopolitics. There are references to the attacks in Benghazi, Libya, that left four American personnel dead, and condemnations of the Obama administration — accusing it of mishandling its Middle East policy and destabilizing the region. There is specific reference to the failings of “the secretary of state” — a jab at Hillary Clinton, Mr. Trump’s presumed Democratic Party opponent. |
| Another tweak to the platform’s language on immigration will also please Mr. Trump: Though the initial draft called for building a “physical barrier” along the United States border with Mexico, that passage was amended yesterday to call specifically for a wall. | Another tweak to the platform’s language on immigration will also please Mr. Trump: Though the initial draft called for building a “physical barrier” along the United States border with Mexico, that passage was amended yesterday to call specifically for a wall. |