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2024 GOP platform

FIRST THINGS magazine asks: “Is the Republican Party becoming pro-choice?”

John Fea   |  July 18, 2024

We just got done watching J.D. Vance and GOP chair Michael Whatley tell members of Ralph Reed’s Faith & Freedom Coalition that the GOP is still the party of the Christian Right. As we have now noted several times here, […]

Evangelicals respond to night 2 of the GOP national convention

John Fea   |  July 17, 2024

Night 2 of the Republican National Convention is in the books. See our live blogging of night 2 here. What are evangelicals saying? Bottom line: I don’t think many of them were watching. Charlie Kirk will be at an evangelical […]

Eric Trump compares Christian Right concerns about the GOP platform to “worrying about spots on the wall in the basement” when there are “real holes in the roof.”

John Fea   |  July 16, 2024

The GOP landscape is changing. The Christian Right is in a tough spot right now. If they want to pledge blind loyalty to Trump they will have to deal with his views on abortion and marriage. Here is Christian Right […]

Family Research Council’s Tony Perkins is trying to make sense of the new GOP political landscape. It doesn’t seem to be going well.

John Fea   |  July 16, 2024

Life used to be easy for Tony Perkins, the president of the Family Research Council (FRC). Back in the good old days, the FRC railed against Roe v. Wade and the LGBTQ agenda, tried to help the GOP gain political […]

GOP political activist David Barton responds to Trump’s Republican Party platform

John Fea   |  July 9, 2024

If you have not been following this GOP platform debate, get up to speed here and here. David Barton, the GOP political activist who uses the American past to promote his activism, was a member of the 2024 GOP platform […]

“What a mess”: Conservative intellectual Robert George responds to the GOP platform

John Fea   |  July 9, 2024

Last night we noted that not all conservatives are happy with Donald Trump’s GOP platform. Get up to speed here. Conservative intellectual Robert George has weighed-in: Here is George’s full statement, as posted in Denny Burk’s tweet: Every four years […]

Some on the Christian Right are unhappy with the 2024 GOP platform

John Fea   |  July 8, 2024

Today the GOP platform committee met in Milwaukee. As we noted over the weekend, there was some debate over whether the platform should have a statement calling for a national ban on abortion. Donald Trump, the presumptive nominee, does not […]