Cenk Uygur
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Republican Platform: Ban Gay Adoption
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July 13, 2016
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5:43Now PlayingRepublicans recently formed their party platform. One Republican, Annie Dickerson, tried to persuade the committee to support gay adoption. She failed. Cenk Uygur, host of The Young Turks, breaks it down. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"But the Perkins wing was met with vocal opposition from Annie Dickerson, an adviser to billionaire GOP donor Paul Singer, who is a proponent of same-sex marriage and other issues championed by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.
Dickerson fumed as her socially liberal proposals went down and the socially conservative measures she opposed sailed through the subcommittee.
At one point, Dickerson, who has adopted children, accused others on the committee of “blatant discrimination” over an amendment that would keep publicly funded adoption agencies from giving custody of children to gay couples.
“We need children to be adopted, so hooray to the gay community for trying to raise children in a happy and stable home,” Dickerson said. “I object to allowing patent discrimination against gays over the right to adopt. … This is blatant discrimination and should not be in our platform.”
Dickerson lost that battle and essentially every other battle she waged. At times she stared down Perkins and expressed exasperation after votes went against her.
“Unbelievable,” she said after the adoption measure passed.”*
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