Good Friday Morning, Fellow Seekers.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Paul Mango is out with a new "Faith, Family, and Pennsylvania Values Agenda," that comes wrapped in some gauzy language about religious freedom and traditional values, but actually opens sharp new fronts in the culture wars.

Paul Mango, a Pittsburgh-area businessman, becomes the second Republican, after Scott Wagner, to enter the race to challenge Democratic incumbent Gov. Tom Wolf for the governorship next year.

"Under Tom Wolf, our faith, families and conservative values have come under attack," Mango said in a statement accompanying the release of his new policy blueprint. "Wolf is the most liberal governor in America who has even fought for increased funding for Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortions, while cutting funding for Pennsylvania veterans. That's unconscionable. And it's why Pennsylvania needs a strong pro-life, pro-family, pro-faith governor."

Mango also says his plan, which has picked up the support of former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., "shares my commitment to veto any 'bathroom bill' that violates privacy in public restrooms by allowing the personal choice of gender selection."

That language puts Mango in the company of other state officials who have moved to restrict restroom access to transgender citizens.

In March, amid massive public outcry, and the threat of deep damage to its economy, officials in North Carolina reversed a wildly unpopular law that required transgender people to use public restrooms matching the gender on their birth certificates.

Such major employers as Apple, Google, American Airlines and the NBA denounced the North Carolina bill. Mango's hardline stance on the bathroom bill apparently clashes with his rhetoric on wanting to rebuild the state's economy and make it more friendly to employers.

If elected, Mango, a former healthcare executive from Pittsburgh, says he'd support legislation that would "prioritize" state funding for women's health to "those organizations providing the broadest scope of services, broadest geographic coverage, but do not deliver taxpayer funding to those organizations performing abortions."

That language is substantially similar to a bill sponsored by Sen. John Eichelberger, R-Blair, that would effectively cut off support for Planned Parenthood by denying public funding to "any entity that performs abortions that are not federally qualified abortions or maintains or operates a facility where such abortions are performed."

Eichelberger's bill cleared a Senate committee last spring, earning a stiff rebuke from Gov. Tom Wolf, who called it an "ideologically driven attempt to disrupt health services for thousands of women in Pennsylvania.

Mango says he'd also support a bill now before the House Health Committee that would ban the most common kind of second-trimester abortion. And he'd "ensure Pennsylvania health care waiver requests allow for religious exceptions to any requirements covering contraceptives or abortion."

York County state Sen. Scott Wagner, one of Mango's rivals for the GOP nomination, is a co-sponsor of Eichelberger's Planned Parenthood de-funding bill, and a co-sponsor of the 20-week abortion ban bill sponsored by Sen. Michele Brooks, R-Crawford.

Wolf's campaign spokeswoman, Beth Melena, slammed the agenda, saying "Mango supports the criminalization of abortion even in the case of rape and incest."

"Women should be horrified of Paul Mango and his shameful plan to strip women of the ability to make their own healthcare decisions and cut off access to important [services]," she said.

In a statement accompanying the release of Mango's policy outline, Santorum, the ur-culture warrior, said he "[welcomes] having at least one candidate in the race for governor who hasn't succumbed to the pressures of the popular culture and is ready to stand up for the families of Pennsylvania."

Mango is in the midst of a tightly contested four-way primary for the Republican nomination for governor in 2018. In addition to Wagner, the field of candidates also includes Pittsburgh attorney Laura Ellsworth, and Pennsylvania House Speaker Mike Turzai, R-Allegheny.

Mango, Turzai and Wagner will all hold receptions during the annual Pennsylvania Society weekend that got under way in midtown Manhattan this weekend. Wolf, who has traditionally taken a pass, will attend this year for the first time of his governorship.

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