Ep. 117: RNC Party Platform Reflections [The Outstanding Podcast]

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🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Before the Republican National Convention last week, a large group of delegates met to discuss what the Republican party stood far, ie: the party’s platform. Delegates meet every four years, except in 2020 due to COVID-19, to discuss the platform and vote on any amendments. This year’s committee was quite different compared to years past. Host Joseph Backholm is joined by FRC’s Brent Keilen and Travis Weber, who were in the room as the decisions were being made. Spoiler alert, much of the pro-life and pro-family foundational blocks were removed from the platform. But why? And who is driving this change? Listen now to learn how the platform has changed and how as Christians we can to the best of our ability, point our country towards truth with our vote.

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0:00.0	It seems like every four years, every two years we as Christians navigate these types of questions, but you know kind of as the worldview distinctions become more distinct, you know further apart. I think these questions probably are going to become harder, you know, at least at times and so it is really important that we wrestle with these.
0:21.0	And just for me personally, I think a couple things that that have
0:25.9	really helped me navigate that one is diverse you know as we have opportunity
0:31.3	let us do good.
0:32.8	And so it's not so much necessarily looking for
0:36.4	how do we achieve ultimate victory or avoid ultimate defeat
0:41.7	in one election, but what is the opportunity to do good here and do that in the right way?
0:47.7	Outstanding is a production of the Washington Stand where you can find news and commentary from a biblical worldview.
0:53.2	Welcome to Outstanding where we have critical conversations about the news of the day and
0:58.0	the ideas that shape us. I'm your host Joseph back home inviting you to join us on the never-ending journey of learning to take
1:05.4	every thought captive to the obedience of Christ. Now a key component to thinking
1:10.0	Christianly is maintaining an ultimate loyalty to the truth. This can be difficult
1:15.9	because people are social creatures and in fact that's how God made us. But by virtue of
1:21.4	our social nature we develop biases for and against individuals and groups and organizations.
1:28.0	What happens when those people we think we like do things we don't think we like or when people we don't think we
1:38.0	like do things we do think we like where is our loyalty where how do we navigate that situation now this is a
1:46.1	situation a lot of people are in after the Republican Party platform committee
1:52.0	removed pro-life and pro-marriage statements Party Why did this change happen? And what does it mean for Christians who, by virtue of our Christianity,
2:07.0	are obligated to care more about life, of course, than things like political parties?
2:11.0	Joining me today are two people who were in the room for the platform
2:16.1	debate or the non-platform debate as the case may be and we'll discuss that.
2:20.5	Brent Kyland is the vice president for strategic initiatives at
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