Likening gay people to drug users and polygamists (among other things)

The Republicans walk the planks

By Dana Milbank, Washpost, Friday, August 24, 11:49 AM

Let us give thanks to our Judeo-Christian God for the Republican Party. It is the only thing standing between us and the triumph of sharia in our land.

Some people may not realize just how close the nation is to succumbing to this puritanical form of Muslim fundamentalism. In fact, we only recently learned that our leaders engaged in a drunken swim, one of them without clothing, on a “fact-finding” mission by Republican lawmakers to the Holy Land.

But the clear-eyed patriots who drafted the Republican Party platform can see a threat that myopic Americans have missed. The GOP platform committee, meeting in Tampa in advance of the convention, approved language banning U.S. courts from considering foreign legal traditions. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, the brains behind several hard-line statutes on immigration, came up with the idea.

“In cases involving either spousal abuse or assault or other crimes against persons, sometimes defenses are raised that are based in Shariah law,” Kobach warned, according to Talking Points Memo.

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