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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