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The new party platform, adopted over the weekend durg the party's nventn Hoton, says beg gay is "an abnormal liftyle choice."

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TEXAS GOP'S NEW PLATFORM LLS GAY PEOPLE 'ABNORMAL' AND REJECTS TRANS INTI

The Texas Republin Party unveiled s official posn on LGBTQ issu over the weekend, fg homosexualy as an "abnormal liftyle choice" and also opposg "all efforts to validate transgenr inty. "Thoands of Republin activists met at the party’s biennial nventn Hoton on Saturday to agree to the party's platform on a range of issu, cludg the rejectn of the 2020 electn rults and a ll to repeal of the 1965 Votg Right Act, which was enacted to prevent discrimatn agast Black a sectn tled "Homosexualy and genr issu, " the party suggted that LGBTQ people should not be legally protected om discrimatn and that beg gay or trans is a choice. "Homosexualy is an abnormal liftyle choice, " the 40-page rolutn reads.

"We believe there should be no grantg of special legal entlements or creatn of special stat for homosexual behavr, regardls of state of orig, and we oppose any crimal or civil penalti agast those who oppose homosexualy out of fah, nvictn, or belief tradnal valu. "The Texas Republin Party blocked the Log Cab Republins, a longstandg group of gay nservativ — which also supports many of the party’s anti-LGBTQ polici — om havg a booth at Saturday's nventn. "The party's new official stance on sexual orientatn and genr inty also cis wh a recent natnwi surge charged rhetoric om media punds and policians about LGBTQ recent months, nservative lawmakers, televisn punds and other public figur have acced opponents of a newly enacted Florida tn legislatn — which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law — of tryg to “groom” or “doctrate” children.

TEXAS GOP ADOPTS ANTI-LGBTQ PLATFORM, REFERS TO BEG GAY AS ‘ABNORMAL’

The word “groomg” has long been associated wh mischaracterizg LGBTQ people, particularly gay men and transgenr women, as child sex abers. The Texas GOP supporters went vehemently agast homosexualy, llg an "abnormal liftyle choice.

TEXAS GOP PLATFORM EMBRAC FAR-RIGHT AND ANTI-GAY RHETORIC

AP Photo/Eric Gay. The Republin Party of Texas scribed homosexualy as an “abnormal liftyle choice” s latt platform, which was unveiled and voted on by thoands of legat at the party’s nventn over the weekend a sign the party is shiftg further to the right. “We believe there should be no grantg of special legal entlements or creatn of special stat for homosexual behavr, regardls of state of orig, and we oppose any crimal or civil penalti agast those who oppose homosexualy out of fah, nvictn, or belief tradnal valu, ” read the 40-page document, which also said that the state GOP “oppose[s] all efforts to validate transgenr inty.

The Texas Republin party adopted a new platform on Saturday that refers to homosexualy as “abnormal” and “oppos all efforts to validate transgenr inty. The Texas GOP party adopted the 40-page platform at s biennial nventn Hoton after passg the party’s new guidg prcipl, which clus a sectn tled “Homosexualy and Genr Issu. The sectn clus a formal posn clarg the state’s GOP party is agast givg a special legal stat to gay men or women and that they support people who oppose homosexualy based on fah, relign or a belief “tradnal valu.

TEXAS GOP CALLS BEG GAY ‘ABNORMAL,’ BANS GAY CONSERVATIVE GROUP FROM CONVENTN

“Homosexualy is an abnormal liftyle choice, ” the platform document reads.

“We believe there should be no grantg of special legal entlements or creatn of special stat for homosexual behavr, regardls of state of orig.

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Texas Republin Platform: Beg Gay Is 'Abnormal Liftyle Choice' .

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