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Evangelical political leader Tony Perkins, who has already raised gripes about the Republican National Committee’s alterations to the abortion plank of their platform, took another swipe at them on Thursday. Perkins heads up the Family Research Council, a far-right Christian nationalist organization that has been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for its demonization of LGBTQ people, but nonetheless holds influence in many GOP circles. The platform, which was written largely along former President Donald Trump’s own ideological lines, moves from discussion of abortion …

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