Idaho GOP activist and former state Sen. Rod Beck is peeved about everyone calling the GOP platform plank he successfully sponsored this year a “loyalty oath.” “It’s just a candidate disclosure, that’s all it is, it’s not a loyalty oath,” Beck declared. “It just asks candidates to say if they support the platform, and if they do, fine, if they don’t, state which areas that they don’t.” Beck, who pushed a similar proposal unsuccessfully four years ago, said he copied the language for this year’s successful proposal from Utah’s GOP. Beck said the term “loyalty oath” is “used as a pejorative in a propaganda sense.” However, he said, “The last time, Blake Hall called it a litmus test - I didn’t like that either”/Betsy Russell, Eye On Boise. More here.

Question: Does it sound like a loyalty oath to you?