Time magazine claimed the RNC was retreating from “antigay” issues, based on some resolutions that weren’t taken up unanimously. But the big story from the summer meeting that nobody is reporting is the really strong resolutions against the Supreme Court and calling on Congress and the next GOP president to pass the First Amendment Defense Act (FADA):

WHEREAS, The Chief Justice of the United States, John Roberts, has pointed to the serious religious liberty consequences that may stem from the decision: “Today’s decision . . . creates serious doubts about religious liberty . . . Indeed the Solicitor General candidly acknowledged that the tax exemptions of some religious organizations would be in question if they opposed gay marriage”;
WHEREAS, Many Americans, including Melissa Klein, Kelvin Cochran, Baronelle Stutzman, Angela McCaskill, Brendan Eich, Frank Turek, Scott McAdams, Tom Emmer, Jack Phillips, Elaine Huguenin, Betty and Richard Odgaard, Cynthia and Robert Gifford are losing their livelihoods or are being disciplined for courageously dissenting from gay marriage orthodoxy;
WHEREAS, Many on the Left exhibit an intensifying hatred and intolerance for gay marriage dissenters, with several major Democratic senators considering stripping Christian schools oftheir tax-exempt status; . . . .
RESOLVED, That the Republican National Committee urges Congress to pass and the President to sign The First Amendment Defense Act to protect the rights of believers to equal treatment by the government of The United States of America.

FADA is beginning to assume the status of the 20-week bill, as the minimum criteria for Republicans.