The new party platform, adopted over the weekend durg the party's nventn Hoton, says beg gay is "an abnormal liftyle choice."
Contents:
- TEXAS GOP'S NEW PLATFORM LLS GAY PEOPLE 'ABNORMAL' AND REJECTS TRANS INTI
- TEXAS GOP ADOPTS ANTI-LGBTQ PLATFORM, REFERS TO BEG GAY AS ‘ABNORMAL’
- TEXAS GOP PLATFORM EMBRAC FAR-RIGHT AND ANTI-GAY RHETORIC
- TEXAS GOP CALLS BEG GAY ‘ABNORMAL,’ BANS GAY CONSERVATIVE GROUP FROM CONVENTN
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.
TEXAS GOP ADOPTS ANTI-LGBTQ PLATFORM, REFERS TO BEG GAY AS ‘ABNORMAL’
"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.
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. AP Photo/Eric Gay.
TEXAS GOP PLATFORM EMBRAC FAR-RIGHT AND ANTI-GAY RHETORIC
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.
“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. The sectn also oppos the e of public funds for homosexualy, transgenr or diversy and equy cln centers as well as for genr-affirmg re — while supportg ntroversial unselg methods tend to “nvert” members of the LGBTQ muny.
TEXAS GOP CALLS BEG GAY ‘ABNORMAL,’ BANS GAY CONSERVATIVE GROUP FROM CONVENTN
The Republin Party of Texas is well known for s anti-LGBTQ+ stanc, but the party platform adopted this year go beyond even prev on, wh language llg homosexualy "an abnormal liftyle choice" and opposg "all efforts to validate transgenr inty. Prev platforms clud much antigay and anti-trans language, but the "abnormal liftyle choice" statement is new. ""Homosexualy is an abnormal liftyle choice, " the platform reads.
Other legat ma homophobic and sexually charged ments. \u201cAnother legate, Nate Criswell, says weakeng the homosexualy language would be vg to polil rrectns. The Republin party Texas has officially adopted a seri of extreme-right posns that clus claims Joe Bin was not legimately elected and homosexualy is “abnormal” a platform adopted at s biennial nventn Hoton, legat voted to oppose “all efforts to validate transgenr inty”, cludg the e of taxpayer funds for any “medil genr dysphoria treatments or sex change operatns” anti-trans and anti-gay claratns are part of the state party’s new guidg prcipl, a sectn tled homosexualy and genr issu, which ntradict claims by some Republins that the GOP wants to be more clive.