Matt Yglesias flags 10 sound economic policies in the GOP platform. Brad Plumer, meanwhile, highlights the 10 "oddest" ideas in the overall platform. Adam Serwer looks at what the platform says about gay rights:
As I reported yesterday, the GOP platform … decries efforts by the Obama administration to oppose laws in African countries that criminalize homosexuality. Some of the legislation being proposed would include prison time and even execution as punishment for homosexuality, but the GOP platform says the Obama administration of "imposing" the "homosexual rights agenda" on "the peoples of Africa" by trying to change them. The GOP's "respect and dignity" agenda for gay people apparently doesn't include preventing them from being executed or imprisoned outside of the US.
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