Texas GOP Party Platform #fundie

Texas GOP Party Platform #fundie jaysays.com

(Submitter's note: Fuck it, I'm tired of defending my fellow Texans. Spread this as far and wide as you can, criticize as much as you want. Maybe if enogh of an effigy is made of it it can be shot down. Be sure to read full text)

Family and Defense of Marriage – We support the definition of marriage as a God–ordained, legal and moral commitment only between a natural man and a natural woman, which is the foundational unit of a healthy society, and we oppose the assault on marriage by judicial activists. *** We further call on Congress to pass and the state legislatures to ratify a marriage amendment declaring that marriage in the United States shall consist of and be recognized only as the union of a natural man and a natural woman. Neither the United States nor any state shall recognize or grant to any unmarried person the legal rights or status of a spouse.

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old comment by Fedup

After reading this, there are two things I can no longer stand to hear:
1- "There are extremist crazies on both side. Both parties are just as corrupt so it doesn't really matter who I vote for"

and even more unbearable:

2-"I'm a moderate Republican, socially liberal but fiscally conservative. I don't really buy into all the religious stuff"

After ten plus years of a party that's been highjacked by the lunatic fringe, who'd official leaders are people like Rush Limbaugh, Sarah Palin, and Glenn Beck
After creating a private mercenary army, threatening the judiciary, destroying the economy, passing the Arizona immigration law, and now this????
How can any sane moderate person not walk away??? Why is none of this a deal-breaker for you?

Anyone who is not suffiently bothered by this to leave the party can no longer claim that "some of thier best friends are gay", and you can't come to our parties

old comment by The L

re: Red Light camera ban: If you're stupid enough to let the kind of person who runs red lights drive your car, you deserve to pay that fine. Think of it as an idiot tax.

The "avoiding voter fraud" section is excellent, but there's so much fail in so much of the platform that it kind of negates this section.

10 commandments: I agree. If I ever set foot in Texas (highly unlikely after reading the dominant party's platform), I will proudly display a Triple-Goddess symbol. As this is a religious symbol, surely there will be no protest if I wear it in public, or place a "Goddess Bless America" sign on public grounds. ;)

re: "Family Values": Fuck you, Texas. They are people. Anyone who treats gay people as anything less than people is, in fact, a bigot and deserves to be denounced as one.

re: "Homosexuality" and "sodomy statutes": "Fundamental, unchanging truths" such as polygamy? Buying people from the neighboring countries as slaves? Stoning disobedient children? Oh, wait--all those laws were "nailed to the cross" and therefore don't apply. Not to mention the extreme difficulty of successfully accusing someone of buttsex without being yourself guilty of voyeurism. But hey, if Joe is somewhat effeminate and talks with a lisp, we're totally justified in bugging his bedroom to see if he's having gay orgies in his bedroom, right, Texas Republicans? It's not like the Fourth Amendment prohibits unwarranted searches or anything...oh, wait.

re: banning pornography: Good fucking luck. If you have the materials necessary to draw or write ANYTHING, you can create pornography. That means that every single Texan is a potential pornographer.

I can't read any further, the fail is just too strong.

old comment by Doubting Thomas

And this is why I left the Republican party. It's no longer the party of self-reliance, smaller government, and lower taxes. Now it's God's Own Party with the emphasis on persecuting anyone they don't like. Too bad they allowed themselves to be hijacked by fundamentalist Christians, because now they're becoming more and more irrelevant in a modern world.

"Free Speech for the Clergy We urge change of the Internal Revenue Code to allow a religious organization to address
issues without fear of losing its tax-exempt status. We call for repeal of requirements that religious organizations send
government any personal information about their contributors.

Government Regulation of Religious Institutions The state should have no power over licensing or training of clergy. The
State should withdraw all imposed regulations."

So basically they want to allow churches to become political entities, but they don't want the government to interfere with the churches. There could be no better argument for separation of church and state than this.

old comment by DOS et Al.

Typical liberal reaction, if anyone believes in traditional marriage they must be fanatical and evil. heavean forbid you atheists realize homosexuality is detrimental in an evolutionary scale to the organism, natural selection. Sadly despite not being able to reproduce the gays and the "gay gene" the liberals are so fond of saying causes faggotness hasnt died out of the gene pool. Whats next, you leftist asses condemn people for not supporting pediophelia, anyone who believes people shouldnt marry a cow is wrong...All these people want is to exercise their right to VOTE for candidates who support traditional family and societal values, rather than perversion. Soon theyll want to pass a law outlawing heterosexuality, in the name of "eqyality" and everyone here will cheer...

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