<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div>Courtesy of the June 3, 2016 edition of the <i>Spokesman-Review</i> at:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/hbo/2016/jun/03/gop-debates-bigotry-resolution/">http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/hbo/2016/jun/03/gop-debates-bigotry-resolution/</a></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------</div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"></strong></p><h1 style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 48px; margin: 5px 0px 20px; font-family: 'Chronicle Display A', 'Chronicle Display B', serif; line-height: 1; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-feature-settings: 'liga' 1, 'dlig' 1; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">GOP rejects anti-bigotry resolution</h1><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Update: The platform committee rejects the anti-bigotry resolution with all voting no but one.</strong></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">At the Idaho GOP convention in Nampa, Melissa Davlin of "Idaho Reports" (@davlinnews) is live-tweeting the discussion on resolutions in the platform committee. Among proposed resolutions: Two against transgender bathroom requirements; one against bigotry. Melissa points out that three people have already spoken against the resolution denouncing bigotry, stating that it violated First Amendment rights.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">--------------------</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;">Here's the proposed anti-bigotry resolution that was overwhelmingly rejected by the platform committee of the Idaho GOP. Melissa Davlin of "Idaho Reports" tweets that one delegate commented that the language in the resolution was the type that the other side uses.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 17.6px;"><a href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/Idaho_GOP_AntiBigotry_Resolution_069316.jpg">http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/Idaho_GOP_AntiBigotry_Resolution_069316.jpg</a></p></div><div>---------------------------------<br><br><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Now, if you'll excuse me I must go an retrieve a banner from the Moscow Streets Department.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya at the Wingding, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><font color="#000000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></font></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom "A Card-Carrying, Bleeding-Heart, Tree-Hugging, Add-the-Words Liberal" Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div></div></div></body></html>