Platform
The 2010 party platform is the most recent release on the party's official stances on key issues, economic, political and social. It stands by the National Republican Party that "limited government is good government.", and believe that "leaner, cleaner government" is the appropriate response to what they see as gross overspending by the Obama Administration and find the Federal government's ballooning deficit troubling. Just as Governor Mitch Daniels and the Republican majority had had curbed spending and turned Indiana's billion dollar deficit into a surplus, the Indiana GOP believes that low taxes, decreased government spending, and governmental regulations that are "restrained and reasonable" is what is needed to overcome the current recession.
Indiana Republicans believe that "the First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom from religion", and staunchly opposes the exclusion of prayer from public forums. It also understands that the Second Amendment allowing citizens to bear arms, and supports gun ownership by all lawful citizens.
The Indiana GOP concurs with the current Indiana law that "childbirth is preferred, encouraged, and supported over abortion" and objects to current healthcare laws that fail bar tax dollars from funding abortion procedures.
The party also believes that marriage is a union between a man and a woman and that any proposal to change this definition should be decided by the public, not by courts, and that "strong families are the foundation of virtue and that such families bring forth citizens capable of self-government as well as properly motivated public servants so essential for a successful republic."
Indiana Republicans have also spoken up in support of Governor Daniels' 2005 laws that requires government-issue photo identification before voters can cast their ballots, believing it as a way to "improve the integrity of the election process."
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Famous quotes containing the word platform:
“Do you know I believe that [William Jennings] Bryan will force his nomination on the Democrats again. I believe he will either do this by advocating Prohibition, or else he will run on a Prohibition platform independent of the Democrats. But you will see that the year before the election he will organize a mammoth lecture tour and will make Prohibition the leading note of every address.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)
“I have rather a strange objection to talking from the back platform of a train.... It changes too often. It moves around and shifts its ground too often. I like a platform that stays put.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“I have never yet spoken from a public platform about women in industry that someone has not said, “But things are far better than they used to be.” I confess to impatience with persons who are satisfied with a dangerously slow tempo of progress for half of society in an age which requires a much faster tempo than in the days that “used to be.” Let us use what might be instead of what has been as our yardstick!”
—Mary Barnett Gilson (1877–?)