Family Research Council Action Announces Platform Integrity Project: Ensuring Pro-Life, Pro-Family, and Pro-Israel Principles
Family Research Council Action, led by Chairman Tony Perkins unveiled the Platform Integrity Project this week. This initiative, backed by numerous conservative organizations, aims to collaborate with the Republican National Committee (RNC) and the Trump campaign to maintain the GOP’s conservative platform, focusing on pro-life, pro-family, and pro-Israel values. For the first time, the project will track and score individual votes of platform delegates.
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The coalition supporting this project includes prominent groups such as WallBuilders, Faith Wins, American Principles Project, Family Policy Alliance, AFA Action, Liberty Counsel Action, Pro-Family Legislative Network, The Family Foundation of Kentucky, Center for Arizona Policy Action, Frontline Policy Action, Maryland Family Action, Human Coalition Action, Palmetto Family Council, and the North Carolina Values Coalition.
Perkins emphasizes the importance of party platforms
Tony Perkins, an elected member of the RNC Platform Committee from Louisiana, emphasized the significance of party platforms in his statement:
“Party platforms matter. They state a party’s principles and their priorities. According to research by Dr. Lee Payne, the parties actually follow their platforms. Between 1980 and 2004, Republican lawmakers followed their platform 82 percent of the time.”
He further quoted Ronald Reagan, highlighting the importance of clear and bold party principles, “As Ronald Reagan noted, ‘There are cynics who say that a party platform is something that no one bothers to read, and it doesn’t very often amount to much.’ But he said ‘a banner of bold unmistakable colors with no pale pastels’ would reveal the difference between Republicans and the other party.”
Perkins also addressed the current state of America, calling for decisive leadership and moral clarity around issues including life, family, and Israel. These values stem from Perkin’s bold faith and reflect what many in the GOP espouse.
Moral and cultural confusion
“America is an unprecedented place of moral and cultural confusion and is in dire need of leadership and moral clarity. The Republican Party must once again communicate a clear and hopeful contrast between the parties by painting a message for voters on the foundational issues—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness—not in pale pastels but in bright, bold colors.”
He concluded by stressing the importance of preserving core values within the GOP platform.
“Voters need to see a contrast between the two parties on their policy priorities. Voters want and need a choice. The message to Platform Committee delegates is clear: preserve life and family values in the Republican Party platform so that social conservatives can continue to find a home in the GOP.”
For more information on the Platform Integrity Project, click here.
