California GOP Rejects Softer Stance on Abortion, Same-Sex Marriage in Party Platform

Delegates voted 903 to 246 to re-adopt the state party’s current platform which supports the right to life and defines marriage as between a man and a woman.
California GOP Rejects Softer Stance on Abortion, Same-Sex Marriage in Party Platform
People attend the 2023 California GOP convention in Anaheim, Calif., on Sept. 29, 2023. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
Brad Jones
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ANAHEIM, Calif.—California Republican delegates voted to scrap a proposed platform that would have softened the state party’s stance against same-sex marriage and abortion at the CAGOP’s weekend-long Fall Convention concluding on Oct. 1.

On the final day of the convention, delegates voted 903-246, or 78.6 percent, in favor of re-adopting the state party’s current platform which supports the right to life and defines marriage as between a man and a woman.