The Republican National Committee (RNC)
on Wednesday rejected a resolution encouraging Congress and states to
approve legislation aimed at undermining the Supreme Court's ruling
striking down gay marriage bans in all 50 states.
According to Time,
the resolution, introduced by Louisiana national committeeman Ross
Little, Jr., failed to gain sufficient support to clear the RNC's
resolutions committee. The committee recommends resolutions to the
full 168-member party governing body. An unlikely possibility is the
direct introduction of the resolution during Friday's general
session.
A second resolution introduced by
Michigan national committeeman Dave Agema sought to encourage
“schools that are teaching the homosexual lifestyle in their sexual
education class also include the harmful physical aspects of the
lifestyle.”
RNC Chairman Reince Priebus has
publicly called on Agema to resign over racist and homophobic
remarks. Agema landed in hot water after he promoted on social media
an article asserting that part of the “homosexual agenda is to get
the public to affirm their filthy lifestyle” He refused to back
down and called the article “common sense.”
(Related: Dave
Agema's “filthy homosexuals” Facebook post sparks uproar.)
A resolution calling for the GOP to
respect differing opinions on the high court's ruling among
Republican presidential candidates also failed to clear the
resolutions committee.