TX GOP platform: Re-criminalize sodomy, make gay marriage a felony

Divorce is a an effect, not a cause.

Saying divorce isn't a bad thing would be like saying being held back a year in school isn't a bad thing, just something that needed to happen. While that is true, it is still the result of failure.

 

This is the result of the fiscal conservatives taking over? Really?

 

I would actually encourage a 4 year prison sentence on the husband/wife responsible for the divorce. This way, people would actually respect the holy sacrament or just stay away from marriage in general. :grin:

 

Hey don't forget that the GOP platform is in favor of turning Texas into Arizona when it comes to stopping folks to see if they are undocumented.

Then they wonder why the Hispanics are fleeing their party.

 

There should be more than two prominent political parties... this is just ridiculous... I am tired of a GOP that does not represent me or a Democratic party that falls short of being realistic.

This article about Texas' GOP Platform was posted 2 days ago and already has almost 3200 comments from around the states and globe... so, without ado,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/22/texas-gop-platform-advoca_n_619601.html

 

The recently rolled-out platform from the Texas GOP has also come under scrutiny for advocating to outlaw all "sexually-oriented businesses" -- including strip clubs and "all p*rnography"

see now thats just wrong

 

I don't see why this is rubbing everyone the wrong way and they are ready to erupt.

I mean, we all know that this was just a couple of nutjobs who managed to slip something in the back door while people had their backs turned. This will not climax and come about as law....if it did, it would be one sticky situation.

 

Weslinder makes the point that the GOP will be returning to essentially it country club roots-- just level headed fiscal conservatives, without the craziness.

They can't do it and ever win anything. There are just not enough country clubbers and even some of us (not a golf player!) who have high incomes and do fine under conservative economics have moral values and are opposed to the virtue of selfishness i.e libertarian or conservative economics.

The GOP needs social issues to make enough of the working class vote against their own economic interests. i.e, the Christian Right one issue anti-abortionists, the anti-gays the Tea Partiers, the birthers the anti-immigration nuts, the gun nuts etc. If the GOP just makes it about lower taxes for the rich and getting rid of social security, pensions, unions, minimum wage, taxes on estates over $7 million, higher state tutitions because the state government has no money etc. they won't get enough of the working class to vote GOP.

Of course you have those, often somewhat educated, who get all their news from Fox or perhaps the Wall Street Journal who have drunk the libertarian kool aid and believe on an abstract level that they are voting somehow for their own interests despite their ordinary incomes but this group is unlikely to ever be a huge factor.

 

Boobs.

 

If a couple of "nutjobs" manage to slip something in the back door while people had their backs turned, what's to say that this wont be slipped through the back door and into law? The law was on the books till recently. Also, there has been quite a few laws lately that as long as you have an excuse, very quickly becoming the law and then just become very hard to undo.

 

snicker.

 

Ok, I see what he did there .....

 

wes, I appreciate as usual your cool head. You are one of the good ones. But there is no rationalizing this. This makes your party look stupid and bigoted because this platform plank is stupid and bigoted. You shouldn't be explaining why it was reasonable that it happened; you should be the loudest voice complaining how idiotic and shameful it is that it could even possibly happen in a party with which you otherwise identify. Not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes you look extremely bad by association.

I guarantee you that if the tables were turned, I'd be the first to not only denounce the Democrats for doing something so hateful, stupid and wrong, but I would immediately resign my party affiliation into the bargain until it was fixed and the assholes were removed from any position in which they could have this kind of influence.

Of course, as has been pointed out, that wouldn't happen because the big tent of the GOP relies heavily on hate mongering and bigotry. (I am often guilty of hyperbole. Here, not at all.)

 

DON'T CRIMINALIZE THE HATHAWAY!

 

Too bizarre! Something like two-thirds of the adult American heterosexual population engage in "sodomy." The Texas GOP, as well as the national party, which tolerates it, is nuts.

 

This you and I completely agree on Batman.

I am simply mystified with the enormous backward step the Texas GOP is taking here. To me, conservatism meant (among other things) LESS government intrusion into your life, not MORE.

This is not about conservatism, it flies in the face of conservatism. It is about exercising power and dominion over people in an effort to make a forcibly homogeneous populace.

Wrong, wrong...WRONG.

 

If only more conservatives were actually conservatives, like you are, and Wes, who's in an uncomfortable spot here. I can respect an honest disagreement with a sane person. I respect you. Those who, frankly, could do with some sessions with Woody Allen's shrink (OK, maybe not Woody's, given the results! ). They are the fringe of American society, regardless of how much they howl that they represent a majority