OREGON REPUBLICANS TRY A MOVE TO THE CENTER

Oregon Republicans have decided to embrace an idea proposed by younger Republicans at the annual platform gathering in Bend.  Their idea is to make the 2012 election about the economy and jobs–and back off from platform language that denounced same sex couples–even those in civil unions–as unfit parents.  The idea was controversial, but it passed a floor vote by a thin majority after a lively debate.  The Oregon GOP platform has now been stripped of its objections to civil unions, and same sex partners as parents.  Republicans kept language in the platform that calls for limiting marriage to one man and one woman.

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