The RR: sure to lead to the demise of the GOP (illegal, polls)
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The official platform is from the Republican Party of Texas. That exact same document (the second link) can be found on their website as well.
As far as the actual lawmakers, you are correct that virtually none actually support such extremes. But I still have a HUGE problem with a lot of this crap in the platform even if the worst of it is largely ignored.
The official platform is from the Republican Party of Texas. That exact same document (the second link) can be found on their website as well.
As far as the actual lawmakers, you are correct that virtually none actually support such extremes. But I still have a HUGE problem with a lot of this crap in the platform even if the worst of it is largely ignored.
I see your location is Texas so you live here and you know what's in that document is not true.
I somehow doubt most Republicans support putting 16-year-old kids to death for having consensual sex with each other...
Of course they don't. But the platform does seem to suggest that the people who wrote the platform want it to be an option:
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Sexual Assault - Punishment options for rape should include death. Adults convicted of sexual molestation of a minor should receive mandatory prison sentences without probation or parole. We support increasing the penalty for failure to report child sexual assault cases, and we urge vigorous prosecution of such failure. We urge the Legislature to eliminate from the child sexual assault law the “affirmative defense” when there is less than 36 months of age difference.
I see your location is Texas so you live here and you know what's in that document is not true.
I know, as I've said in virtually every post on this thread - most lawmakers do not support those policies. But, still, I have a huge problem with some of that being in a document that is intended to be the backbone of the party that controls our state - at all - even if the extreme stuff is not actually supported.
I reluctantly remain a Republican, but continue to grow more and more frustrated with the sh*t the RR tries to pull.
I knew the Texas state Republican Party platform was socially conservative. I'd read parts of it and read a lot about it, but didn't realize exactly how extreme it was and how far they actually took it. I just read it in its entirety and am baffled.
The good news - the TX platform has been lauded as one of the most socially conservative state ones in the country, the national platform is not nearly as bad as this, and most candidates for state offices in TX are nowhere close to this extreme. It still frustrates me immensely.
1) the word "God" is mentioned probably about 100 times, if not more, and they want to dispel the "myth" of separation between church and state
2) they actually want to ban all forms of pornography and want homosexual acts criminalized
3) they want to ban abortion, but they apparently want no exceptions and they also want to ban certain forms of contraceptives (seems so counterproductive....contraceptives PREVENT the need for abortion)
4) they want a state law to force teaching intelligent design in public schools, want a state law banning teaching any sex ed other than abstinence only in public schools (goes back to the abortion thing....comprehensive sex ed can REDUCE abortions among the young) and want to revise rape laws to include consensual sex between teenagers in the same age range, while making the death penalty a punishment option for rape
5) they want to end the state lottery
Can you explain to me why this is the heading for what is supposedly the Texas GOP platform:
2008 TEXAS GOP PLATFORM:
ANOTHER EXERCISE IN EXTREMISM
Somehow I don't see anything honest in those words, expecially the words exercise in Extremism. Somehow that has a real partisan sound to it.
Could you supply a shrunk down version of the Texas Democrat platform for 2008? I would prefer that it come from TFN just as this one did. I think that libs talk about misinformation from the right but am very sure this is exactly that from a lib site. Sorry, but that is what I see here.
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