Absolutely - there's plenty bad about it as is. No need for people (not you) to make up stuff to attack it.
The plank about "reparative therapy" made it into the platform without it being debated on. At least the plank about homosexuality tearing at the fabric of society was removed. http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/texas-gop-endorses-reparative-therapy-gays-n125471 Texas GOP Endorses 'Reparative Therapy' for Gays The Texas Republican Party now endorses so-called "reparative therapy" for gays, under a new platform given final approval at its annual convention Saturday. The new anti-gay language never came up for debate before roughly 7,000 delegates ratified a Texas GOP platform that tea party groups succeeded in pushing further to the right, including winning a harder line on immigration. One influential tea party group called Texas Eagle Forum had urged the party to support psychological treatments that seek to turn gay people straight. It comes after Republican New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie last fall signed a law banning such therapies on minors, and California has a similar law. The Fort Worth Convention Hall cheered when party leaders announced that Christie finished a distant 11th in a 2016 presidential straw poll. "There's a very, very small group of people who want to keep the party in the past. We were here today to try to pull the party into the future," said Rudy Oeftering, vice president of the gay conservative group Metroplex Republicans. "The only way the party can go into the future is to start listening to young people, to start listening to people who have gay family members." Oeftering and allies had lined up to speak against the therapy language that had been added earlier this week. But they never got a chance to address delegates, because a parliamentary motion to approve the full platform was called first. Under the new plank, the Texas GOP recognizes "the legitimacy and efficacy of counseling, which offers reparative therapy and treatment for those patients seeking healing and wholeness from their homosexual lifestyle." Gay conservatives did come away with a rare victory at the convention: Winning the removal of decades-old language in the state party platform that states, "homosexuality tears at the fabric of society." Hardliners were fighting to not only preserve it, but wanted to replace "homosexuality" with "sexual sins."
sexual sinning heterosexuals are fortunate that they don't have the assumption of what goes on behind their closed doors. I hope none of the members of the Texas GOP are lying, hypocritical, sexual sinning heterosexuals.
The Republican Party would do much better if they focused more on fiscal issues and less on telling people how to live their lives.
I'm curious, what exactly consists of "therapy for gays"? p*rn involving straight couples? Pictures of attractive people of the opposite gender? Bible verses?
Exactly. People like me who have no party affiliation might be more inclined to vote with them if they would stay the hell out of people's moral decisions. I'm not a christian, so why should I be forced by my government to abide by the christian moral code? Before you say the government doesnt force morality, that is exactly what the repubs would do if they could get away with it.
No party affiliation, but hates republicans. We have a two party system. Legislating morality is a fundamental part of government.
The Texas Republican Party, again, attempts to tell Texans how to live their lives, wallowing in hypocrisy the entire time. The party that claims to be for individual freedom tosses a slam at a significant percentage of Texans, the LGBT community, by passing a platform that essentially says that homosexuality is a "disease" that can be "cured" by some therapy. Those who dismiss this because there is no funding called for are missing the big picture. This is one of the two major political parties telling Texans what's "good" for them, and what "isn't." Here's food for thought: In 2010, Austin’s overall population was 790,390, according to the Census, with the gay community population in the city being 61,732 people strong, almost 8 percent of the entire population, according to the American Community Survey. Texas’ LGBT population is the fourth largest in the country with 579,968 people as of 2010. By the way, Austin is considered one of the top cities in the country to live in if you are part of the LGBT population. Here's a quote: Voted the ninth best place for gays to live in 2010 by The Advocate, a national gay and lesbian magazine, the city of Austin is seen as “a small dot of blue in a vast sea of red conservatism,” said Matthew Gracia, 20, University of Texas at Austin junior women’s and gender studies major. http://crewtedrow.wordpress.com/2012/05/06/austin-voted-ninth-best-place-for-gays-to-live-in/ So keep shooting yourself in the foot, Texas GOP. In the long run, extremism isn't going to pay off for you.
Let me know as soon as the spineless Democratic party attempts to stick their noses in my personal life. At this point in time, the repubs do every single day, that is why my intense hatred is reserved for them. I don't hate the demo party, its worse, I don't respect them as a reasonable alternative to the hypocritical slimyness of the repubs. Comeon boy, got anymore of your partisan judgement for me? Forget it, I'm not easily pigeonholed so I am beyond your understanding.
