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Contents:

• TEXAS GOP'S NEW PLATFORM LLS GAY PEOPLE 'ABNORMAL' AND REJECTS TRANS INTI
• GREG ABBOTT CELEBRAT SIGNG OF STUPID, USELS ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL
• TEXAS GOP CALLS TO END GAY MARRIAGE, CRIMALIZE ADULT TRANS HEALTHRE
• TEXAS JUDGE FIGHTS TO NY WEDDG CEREMONI TO GAY UPL
• TRAVELER REMOVED FROM FLIGHT AFTER TELLG ANTI-GAY TEXAS GOVERNOR TO 'GO TO HELL'
• CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR
• ABBOTT SERV UP SOME EXTRA-LEAN RED MEAT ON GAY MARRIAGE
• TEXAS GOVENOR ACSTED AT JFK AIRPORT OVER GAY-MARRIAGE STANCE

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

Gay people still have the eedom to marry… members of the oppose sex. For gay upl who want to get married, Abbott hts at a solutn: Fd an oppose-sex partner.

As the San Anton Exprs-News put a headle yterday: “Gay marriage ban stuted for kids’ sake. Well, not even procreatn per se—more like, the statistil relatnship between excludg gay upl om marriage and the creased likelihood of procreatn wh straight marriage.

GREG ABBOTT CELEBRAT SIGNG OF STUPID, USELS ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE BILL

Put another way: Abbott wants to ban gay upl om gettg married to enurage straight upl to have children.

TEXAS GOP CALLS TO END GAY MARRIAGE, CRIMALIZE ADULT TRANS HEALTHRE

Abbott nnot argue that marriage is about child-rearg, or the welfare of children, bee gay upl are perfectly willg and able to raise children.

TEXAS JUDGE FIGHTS TO NY WEDDG CEREMONI TO GAY UPL

(Ined, gay upl raisg kids Texas face all sorts of legal problems bee of Texas’ ban on same-sex marriage; the Abbott brief says not a word about this real-world problem for children and their parents, cludg Cleopatra Leon and Nile Dimetman, the platiffs the se. Even for those wh spo who n’t nceive, Abbott argu, banng gay marriage will keep you om sleepg around and havg kids out of wedlock that the rt of have to pay for.

TRAVELER REMOVED FROM FLIGHT AFTER TELLG ANTI-GAY TEXAS GOVERNOR TO 'GO TO HELL'

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.

CALIFORNIA STILL HAS AN ANTI-GAY MARRIAGE LAW ON THE BOOKS. VOTERS ULD REMOVE NEXT YEAR

"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.

ABBOTT SERV UP SOME EXTRA-LEAN RED MEAT ON GAY MARRIAGE

"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. Acrdg to the Texas judicial missn’s 2019 warng, Hensley referred gay upl who wanted her to pri over their marriage ceremony to other people who would officiate. The unrlyg assumptn ma by both Abbott and Paxton, that same-sex upl would actually want to get married by someone who thks they're an abomatn, was thoroughly knocked down earlier this year by state Reprentative Celia Israel om At, who is gay.

The leopard is eatg my face, cry gay Republins. This morng’s headl, as reported The Hill, foc on a stunng guidg philosophy:Homosexualy is an abnormal liftyle choice.

TEXAS GOVENOR ACSTED AT JFK AIRPORT OVER GAY-MARRIAGE STANCE

We believe there should be no grantg of special legal entlements or creatn of special stat for homosexual behavr, regardls of state of Party clearly means what they say, havg refed to allow the Log Cab Republins, a gay group, to participate on the floor of the state nventn. Rick Perry, a potential Republin printial ndidate, said Friday he supports state rights so much that he's fe wh New York's approval of gay marriage but still lled himself an "unapologetic social nservative. Perry, who has been weighg a printial n, said he oppos gay marriage - but that he's also a firm believer of the 10th Amendment.

Greg Abbott (R) about his stance agast gay marriage. The unnamed 32-year-old walked up to Abbott, shook his hand and then said, "I hope you [expletive] go to hell bee of your stance on gay marriage, " Abbott Communitns Director Matt Hirsch told the At Amerin-Statman. After the Supreme Court's historic lg on gay marriage last month, Abbott said the urt had "abandoned s role as an impartial judicial arber and has bee an unelected ne-member legislature.

↑ NPR, "Feral Judge Voids Texas Gay Marriage Ban, " Febary 26, 2014, " accsed Febary 27, 2014. ↑ The Tim‑Piyune, "Arguments gay marriage s om Louisiana and Texas set for January, " October 27, 2014.