What does the 2024 Republican Platform say on some important issues of Faith? It is not easy to find the actual, full text of the Platform, but the link follows these important quotes:
From Chapter Nine -
GOVERNMENT OF, BY, AND FOR THE PEOPLE
3. Republicans Will Defend Religious Liberty
We are the defenders of the First Amendment Right to Religious Liberty. It
protects the Right not only to Worship according to the dictates of
Conscience, but also to act in accordance with those Beliefs, not just in
places of Worship, but in everyday life. Our ranks include men and women
from every Faith and Tradition, and we respect the Right of every American
to follow his or her deeply held Beliefs. To protect Religious Liberty,
Republicans support a new Federal Task Force on Fighting Anti-Christian
Bias that will investigate all forms of illegal discrimination, harassment, and
persecution against Christians in America.
4. Republicans Will Protect and Defend a Vote of the People, from within
the States, on the Issue of Life
We proudly stand for families and Life. We believe that the 14th Amendment
to the Constitution of the United States guarantees that no person can be
denied Life or Liberty without Due Process, and that the States are,
therefore, free to pass Laws protecting those Rights. After 51 years, because
of us, that power has been given to the States and to a vote of the People.
We will oppose Late Term Abortion, while supporting mothers and policies
that advance Prenatal Care, access to Birth Control, and IVF (fertility
treatments).
5. Republicans Will End Left-wing Gender Insanity
We will keep men out of women’s sports, ban Taxpayer funding for sex
change surgeries, and stop Taxpayer-funded Schools from promoting gender
transition, reverse Biden’s radical rewrite of Title IX Education Regulations,
and restore protections for women and girls.
I find it hypocritical of certain Christians who pushed for returning laws on abortion back to the States by ending Roe vs Wade, and then turn around and push for a Federal Law about abortion that violates some Christian beliefs that a human being begins at ensoulment, at viability, a fully formed fetus.
A typical Reformed view, as stated by the Methodist Adam Clarke on Ex. 21:22 -
"And hurt a woman with child - As a posterity among the Jews was among the peculiar promises of their covenant, and as every man had some reason to think that the Messiah should spring from his family, therefore any injury done to a woman with child, by which the fruit of her womb might be destroyed, was considered a very heavy offense; and as the crime was committed principally against the husband, the degree of punishment was left to his discretion. But if mischief followed, that is, if the child had been fully formed, and was killed by this means, or the woman lost her life in consequence, then the punishment was as in other cases of murder - the person was put to death; Exo_21:23."
James Wilson stated the legal view at the founding of our country, the USA -
"With consistency, beautiful and undeviating, human life, from its commencement to its close, is protected by the common law. In the contemplation of law, life begins when the infant is first able to stir in the womb. By the law, life is protected not only from immediate destruction, but from every degree of actual violence, and, in some cases, from every degree of danger."
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From Chapter Nine -
GOVERNMENT OF, BY, AND FOR THE PEOPLE
3. Republicans Will Defend Religious Liberty
We are the defenders of the First Amendment Right to Religious Liberty. It
protects the Right not only to Worship according to the dictates of
Conscience, but also to act in accordance with those Beliefs, not just in
places of Worship, but in everyday life. Our ranks include men and women
from every Faith and Tradition, and we respect the Right of every American
to follow his or her deeply held Beliefs. To protect Religious Liberty,
Republicans support a new Federal Task Force on Fighting Anti-Christian
Bias that will investigate all forms of illegal discrimination, harassment, and
persecution against Christians in America.
4. Republicans Will Protect and Defend a Vote of the People, from within
the States, on the Issue of Life
We proudly stand for families and Life. We believe that the 14th Amendment
to the Constitution of the United States guarantees that no person can be
denied Life or Liberty without Due Process, and that the States are,
therefore, free to pass Laws protecting those Rights. After 51 years, because
of us, that power has been given to the States and to a vote of the People.
We will oppose Late Term Abortion, while supporting mothers and policies
that advance Prenatal Care, access to Birth Control, and IVF (fertility
treatments).
5. Republicans Will End Left-wing Gender Insanity
We will keep men out of women’s sports, ban Taxpayer funding for sex
change surgeries, and stop Taxpayer-funded Schools from promoting gender
transition, reverse Biden’s radical rewrite of Title IX Education Regulations,
and restore protections for women and girls.
I find it hypocritical of certain Christians who pushed for returning laws on abortion back to the States by ending Roe vs Wade, and then turn around and push for a Federal Law about abortion that violates some Christian beliefs that a human being begins at ensoulment, at viability, a fully formed fetus.
A typical Reformed view, as stated by the Methodist Adam Clarke on Ex. 21:22 -
"And hurt a woman with child - As a posterity among the Jews was among the peculiar promises of their covenant, and as every man had some reason to think that the Messiah should spring from his family, therefore any injury done to a woman with child, by which the fruit of her womb might be destroyed, was considered a very heavy offense; and as the crime was committed principally against the husband, the degree of punishment was left to his discretion. But if mischief followed, that is, if the child had been fully formed, and was killed by this means, or the woman lost her life in consequence, then the punishment was as in other cases of murder - the person was put to death; Exo_21:23."
James Wilson stated the legal view at the founding of our country, the USA -
"With consistency, beautiful and undeviating, human life, from its commencement to its close, is protected by the common law. In the contemplation of law, life begins when the infant is first able to stir in the womb. By the law, life is protected not only from immediate destruction, but from every degree of actual violence, and, in some cases, from every degree of danger."
Of the Natural Rights of Individuals
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