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by teakettle42 1474 days ago
> Is one on the "radical left" if they think LGBTQ people should be able to get married, that the non-religious / non-Christians should have equal rights? This is a serious question, not a troll.

No, that is not “radically far left.”

In 2019, according to Pew Research, 44% of “Republicans and Republican leaners” supported same-sex marriage.

As for your question about equal rights for “non-religious / non-Christians”, I’m not sure what you’re referring to. Can you elaborate?

> I ask it because the "conservative" party in the US explicitly is against such things in their platform documents.

I assume you’re referring to the Republican Party platform document? It’s quite large; can you identify the portions you’re specifically referring to?
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JaimeThompson 1474 days ago
Source is here https://ballotpedia.org/The_Republican_Party_Platform,_2020

P18 in the PDF (p11 as per the included numbering) condemns and calls for the reversal of both US vs Windsor & Obergefell v Hodges as well as calls for marriage to be between one man and one women only.

P 19/12 calls for special rights to worship "God" which is the Christian god in this context, it doesn't call for the same rights for other religious beliefs. It all calls out for special rights to display the Ten Commandments but not other religious artifacts / documents.

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teakettle42 1474 days ago
Polling doesn’t seem to suggest that the positions you’ve represented are held by moderates, so no, I wouldn’t label opposition to them as “radically far left”.

I’d suggest this recent piece as a very cogent breakdown of the lost ascendancy of the religious right in conservative politics:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/01/opinion/republicans-relig...

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