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In July 2016, social media users and news outlets began reporting that the Republican National Committee (RNC) had adopted language which (in part) supported use of the discredited practice of conversion therapy for gays as part of their 2016 platform. News outlets including the New York Times and Washington Post reported the rumors, and Mother Jones listed conversion therapy as one of five notable provisions of a developing 2016 RNC platform: Time magazine, cited as a source for the report, stated in their news account that: CNN was an outlier in citing their source, indicating they had obtained a copy of the platform's draft: CNN noted that Tony Perkins' proposed changes were inferred to pertain to conversion therapy, but that the wording didn't specify the practice by name: CNN's coverage concluded by noting that all proposed amendments to the RNC platform were preliminary, pending a vote and further approvals from the committee at large: Most reports about the conversion therapy aspect of the 2016 GOP platform trace back to CNN's account, which is based on a copy of a draft obtained by the news network. The cited language (if accurate) is ambiguous and does not expressly identify conversion by name, but many onlookers nonetheless believe there is no other reasonable interpretation of Perkins' proposal. The draft faces at least two more tests before officially becoming part the party's platform, and thus far its myriad issues remained unapproved.
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