Apr 3, 2008 / 23:34 pm
Advisers to Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee for the presidency, have denied rumors that the senator will try to “soften” the Republican party platform on abortion and same-sex marriage, the Washington Times reports.
McCain associates told the Washington Times that his allies are not working behind the scenes to remove party planks calling for constitutional bans on abortion and homosexual marriage before the GOP convention in September.
The party’s positions are revised and released in the platform immediately before the nominating convention.
An adviser to the McCain campaign, speaking to the Washington Times on conditions of anonymity, called “dead wrong” a rumor among conservative activists that Bobby Kilberg would mastermind the Republican convention.