The platform committee for a political convention consists of party officials who decide on the official positions of the party, which then go before all of the delegates to vote on.
In some previous GOP conventions, abortion rights has been a heated issue during the platform debate. This year the platform committee will meet in Tampa the week before the RNC takes place at the Tampa Bay Times Forum, and USA Today reported last week that jobs, repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act, energy issues, a tax overhaul and a commitment to changing entitlements are what will probably end up in the final document.
The words "same-sex marriage" failed to make an appearance in reporter Jackie Kucinich's USA Today story.
But don't tell that to the Family Research Council Action, the legislative action arm of the Christian conservative — and fervently anti-gay — Family Research Council. The group is raising fears among the faithful that there's a movement afoot in the GOP to move away from its condemnation of same-sex marriage, a shift that could be engineered during the RNC
In an alert sent to its members two weeks ago, the conservative group warned "the economy appears to have pushed out moral issues in today's politics. One of the casualties is the defense of marriage."
