When Will They Learn
 

The Texas far right GOP and the countries far right GOP apparently will never learn that they must come into the present and future and accept the Gay community for how they R....Texas republicans have endorsed,"reparative therapy for gays."...they want gays to go through psychological treatments to turn gay people straight...that will not happen....they had better start accepting gays and women's rights in order to win...the Texas GOP were given the final approval at its annual convention.

wake up far right...:)

LOL. Shock therapy ?
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The problem is when you take away the obvious social issues republicans don't look that much different from moderate democrats. Can't fund-raise on that...

-spence

WOW...you are right again...remove the obvious social issues from their platform and they look almost exactly like moderate democrats

2012
REPUBLICAN PARTY
OF TEXAS

Report of
Platform Committee

1. Strict adherence to the original intent of the Declaration of Independence and U.S. and Texas
Constitutions.
2.
3. Preserving American and Texas Sovereignty and Freedom.
4. Limiting government power to those items enumerated in the U.S. and Texas Constitutions.
5. Personal Accountability and Responsibility.
6. Self-sufficient families
7. Having an educated population, with parents having the freedom of choice for the education of
their children.
8. Americans having the right to be safe in their homes, on their streets, and in their communities,
and the unalienable right to defend themselves.
9. A free enterprise society unencumbered by government interference or subsidies.
10. Honoring all of those that serve and protect our freedom.
11.

Limited Federal Powers –We strongly support state sovereignty reserved under the Tenth Amendment and
oppose mandates beyond the scope of federal authority, as defined in the U.S. Constitution. We further
support abolition of federal agencies involved in activities not originally delegated to the federal government
under a strict interpretation of the U.S. Constitution.

Border Security – The U.S. Border must be secured immediately!

Affirmative Action - Inasmuch as the Civil Rights Movement argued against using race as a factor in American life, affirmative action reintroduces race as a divisive force in American life. The Republican
Party of Texas believes in equal opportunity for all citizens without regard to race or gender. To that end, we oppose affirmative action

Government Takings and Restrictions - We reaffirm our belief in the constitutional concept of the right to own
property without governmental interference, and that property ownership and free market enterprise forms the
foundation of our collective wealth. NO government entity should abridge or deny these rights.

Protection from Extreme Environmentalists – We strongly oppose all efforts of the extreme environmental
groups that stymie legitimate business interests

Driver Licenses - We propose that every Texas driver license shall indicate whether the driver is a U.S.
citizen. No such license shall be issued to anyone not legally in the country.

Judicial Restraint - We urge Congress to adopt the Constitutional Restoration Act and support the
principle of judicial restraint, which requires judges to interpret and apply rather than make the law.

Unions - We support legislation requiring labor unions to obtain consent of the union member before that
member’s dues can be used for political purposes. We strongly oppose card check.

Felon Voting - We affirm the Constitutional authority of state legislatures to regulate voting, including
disenfranchisement of convicted felons.

Right to Keep and Bear Arms – America’s founding fathers wrote the 2nd
amendment with clear intent – no
level of government shall regulate either the ownership or possession of firearms.


it's pretty lengthy, http://www.texasgop.org/wp-content/t...form_Final.pdf

“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,” Rudy Oeftering, vice president of the gay conservative group Metroplex Republicans, told the Associated Press. "


Rudy seems to think this is pretty small number of people involved in this..I'd also mention that while I don't know what to make of many of these things, if you read the language, there's no suggestion of what you state..."they want gays to go through psychological treatments to turn gay people straight"...it read voluntary treatments and endorsed the legitimacy of the treatments, there's no mention of forcing gays to get treatment of any kind, I think was some response to the banning of the treatments elsewhere by Chris Christie I think...

while I don't know much about the treatments and don't really care I do wonder why, if someone is hetro and wants to be homo...that's ok..and if someone is bi and wants a guy sometimes and a girl other times and maybe even both, that's ok, and if someone is a guy and wants to be a girl, or the other way around and undergoes "reparative surgery and treatments"..that's ok....but if someone is homo and wants to be hetero...well....that's just terrible?...unacceptable..can't happen..confusing isn't it?...isn't it the individual's choice?

Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to . . . transform.

interesting to compare it to the 2012 Texas Democrat Platform

this was a good one...

●recognize that the product of a joined egg and sperm has no independent status, standing, entitlements or rights

aren't we all "products" of a joined egg and sperm?

who do you think would be more loathed by the left..a black conservative or a homosexual liberal turned heterosexual conservative ? :rotf2:

It sounds more like the Texas GOP is into transformation.

-spence

That was a small part of what I meant. They're coming to it late. Progressives have been at it a long time. It's all part of the promise of "the total transformation of America." The old web of the American "fabric," as you like to say, is all in tatters and tangles, including not only its form of government, its market economy, its philosophical and moral foundation, but even the sexual identity of its people. All has been progressively transformed, and, in response, Texas has joined with an in-your-face transformation of its own. But, somehow, as scottw suggests, it just ain't as good to progressives as their preferred form of transformation. It's not so much a change to satisfy the progressive hope for sexual deconstruction, but a reconstruction back to an integrated physical and psychological integrity. That "old-fashioned, outdated" kind of stuff.