Yes, the GOP party platform again includes anti-gay things that it shouldn’t.  As we said in this Associated Press article, the party platform isn’t the hill we’re going to die on.  Party platforms are largely symbolic.  That doesn’t mean that they don’t matter at all.  They do.  But sometimes you have to pick your battles.

The AP story does a good job of pointing out exactly how symbolic these things really are:

Party platforms are not binding on candidates or the next president and tend to be largely forgotten once they’re in place.

And, to be sure, McCain himself doesn’t support everything in the platform:

The platform draft calls for constitutional bans on abortion and gay marriage, two steps McCain does not support.

So, rather than squabble over the platform (which we could have done), we decided to go to Minneapolis-St. Paul at the Republican National Convention and show LGBT Americans in a positive light.  We’re going there to engage in conversations with delegates and Republicans of all stripes.  Some will agree with us.  Others won’t.  One thing we know for sure is that we’re going to the RNC with a positive message about gay and lesbian Americans.  We think that’s important. 

-posted by Scott Tucker