Friday, December 28, 2018

GOP Family Values: Judeo-Christian or Islamic?





The GOP has long been known as the family values party.  But will it remain the party of Judeo-Christian Family values? 

Our Texas Republican Party Platform states:

"We, the 2018 Republican Party of Texas, believe in this platform and expect our elected leaders to uphold these truths through acknowledgment and action. We believe in:... 6. Self-sufficient families, founded on the traditional marriage of a natural man and a natural woman."

What does this principle mean?

Plank 62 elaborates saying:

62. We support the affirmation of traditional Judeo-Christian family values and oppose the continued assault on those values.

And then in planks 316 and 317 our platform elaborates further:

We affirm God’s biblical design for marriage and sexual behavior between one biological man and one biological woman, which has proven to be the foundation for all great nations in Western civilization....
(Plank 316)


We support the definition of marriage as a God-ordained, legal, and moral commitment only between one natural man and one natural woman.
(Plank 317)


By "Biblical design" and "God ordained" the planks are clearly referring to Matthew 19:1-6:

[4] And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, (Genesis 1:27)
[5] And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh (Genesis 2:27)?
[6] Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
(Matthew 19:4-6)


But the Quran plainly claims that "God ordained" marriage is a union between one man and up to four women:

"...marry such women as seem good to you, two and three and four;..."
(Quran Surah 4:3)


One simply cannot accept that the Quran is true, and also accept the God ordained Biblical design for marriage as stipulated in the Texas Republican Party Platform.  Islamic family values are not the same as Judeo-Christian Family Values.

Someone who does not believe in the principles of our platform is not well suited for a position of leadership in propagating our platform, That is no more bigotry than a business refusing to hire a one legged man to serve as a runner, He is simply not well suited for the position, no matter how much political correctness one tries to add to the equation.



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