In addition to jobs, healthcare, and other issues that they agreed upon unanimously, members of the Republican Platform Committee debated teaching Bible in school, in a measure that was ultimately adopted as a plank into the GOP platform.

As a whole, Platform Committee delegates seem deeply concerned about the growing militant secularizing of American culture, and with it the purging of Judeo-Christian influences and references from American life, especially public schools and the public square. FULL REPORT


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