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This issue is disgusting, and the Texas GOP is disgusting for once again using gays as a wedge issue. Here is their platform, for those who asked for it:
Thank you for posting that. I'm not sure why the anti-gay crowd doubted. Maybe even they couldn't believe that their political party would advocate making same-sex marriage ceremonies a felony crime.
I noticed that they also want to outlaw oral and anal sex, as well as pornography. And they dare to call themselves the party of freedom. Unreal.
Well since we are already allowing the courts to handle this why not allow the people it actually affects vote on it? Who I am married to is normal and correct God made Adam and Eve not Adam and Steve the entire point of marriage is to procreate so your name goes on etc etc. Most people have lost view of that obviously.
apparently you overlooked the stat that unwed pregrancies are way way up.
I'm seriously going to tell you about the birds and the bees. I feel like your parents didn't have the talk with you.
A child need not be born to a wedded mother. In fact due to the miracle of science one doesn't even need to have sex to get pregnant.
Ergo you must be morally and religiously opposed to artificial insemination as well.
You might be eating that statement after the election results are in this November.
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The Center for American Politics' Ruy Teixeira, one of the top political demographers in the country, has a new paper out in which he examines the two major party coalitions, with a focus on the current and future prospects of the Republican Party. For the GOP, says Teixeira, things look grim, in large part because the country is becoming less white and more educated. He provides specific data showing how college educated voters are growing, and non-college educated shrinking, as shares of the electorate; likewise for the growing non-white v. shrinking white populations.
"The Democratic Party will become even more dominated by the emerging constituencies that gave Barack Obama his historic 2008 victory, while the Republican Party will be forced to move toward the center to compete for these constituencies. As a result, modern conservatism is likely to lose its dominant place in the GOP," he writes, adding that "the Republican Party as currently constituted is in need of serious and substantial changes in approach."
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The nature of the GOP's demographic-electoral problem is three-fold. First, the challenge of trying to evolve and adapt is itself limited by demographics because the GOP's older and whiter residual white minority coalition is simply less amenable to the sort of changes it would take to modernize the party. Second, so many of the figures within the party who might be able to lead a center-right revival have been beaten in recent cycles, with the old Ford/Dole/Rockefeller wing decimated by the 2006 and 2008 cycles. (Relatedly, it doesn't help when people like Frum are cast out from their intellectual circles.) Finally, it is simply not in the nature of conservatism to foment change or be out in front of demographic and social changes: Conservatism works best as a reaction to--not necessarily reactionary, but a reaction nonetheless--to oncoming, rapid changes.
Seems like the midwest/southwest is turning into a great place to live.
Texas is NOT the midwest.
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That is what I did with mine.
