Platform
LCR acts under the mission statement: "We stand for the proposition that all of us are created equal - worthy of the same rights to freedom, liberty, and equality."
The organization advocates for the traditional tenets of the Republican Party, including low taxes, limited government, strong defense, free markets, personal responsibility, and individual liberty.
On social issues, LCR either dissents from socially conservative Republican views or is neutral. On matters relating to gay and lesbian rights, LCR advocates for same-sex marriage, gay adoption, and equal protections for members of the LGBT community. However, LCR takes no position on abortion.
Also, LCR includes in its sill resolution 10 central themes as to what LCR advocates:
- Conservatism
- Balanced budgets and fiscal discipline
- Comprehensive tax reform
- Revitalizing Social Security through allowing individuals to invest in their futures
- Strong national defense
- Legal immigration reforms that are fair and humane
- Marriage equality for all Americans
- A broad, inclusive definition of family in America
- Non-discrimination in employment
- Market driven health reform
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Famous quotes containing the word platform:
“I marched in with the men afoot; a gallant show they made as they marched up High Street to the depot. Lucy and Mother Webb remained several hours until we left. I saw them watching me as I stood on the platform at the rear of the last car as long as they could see me. Their eyes swam. I kept my emotion under control enough not to melt into tears.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“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)
“The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)