Texas GOP Wishes to Punish Straight People Who Support Gay Rights

[meegbear]

The 2010 GOP platform in Texas supports laws that criminalize sodomy and suggests that straight people who support same-sex marriage should be penalized with jail time.The GOP platform was quoted as openly stating:

“We oppose the legalization of sodomy. We demand that Congress exercise its authority granted by the U.S. constitution to withhold jurisdiction from the federal courts from cases involving sodomy,” the GOP platform reads. Meaning that even though the U.S. Supreme Court overturned sodomy laws last decade (ironically in a case that stemmed from Texas), Texas Republicans would like the state to have the power to criminalize LGBT folks for having sex.

“We support legislation that would make it a felony to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple and for any civil official to perform a marriage ceremony for such,” reads the GOP platform.

If a straight person were to aid and abet a gay couple with marriage in Texas, th GOP would like to see that person serve mandatory jail time.

“We believe that the practice of homosexuality tears at the fabric of society, contributes to the breakdown of the family unit, and leads to the spread of dangerous, communicable diseases,” the platform reads.

http://gltnewsnow.com/2010/06/19/texas-gop-wishes-to-punish-straight-people-who-support-gay-rights/

[blogslut]

1. I love this new TX GOP platform!

It's going to turn Texas blue.

[NNN0LHI]

3. Think this will bother the Log Cabin Republicans?

I bet it doesn't.

Don

[zipplewrath]

7. For the greater good

The Log Cabin Republicans are the opposite of single issue polictics. They agree with the GOP on so much that they can overlook one single shining problem. That's a philosophy often suggested around here, that you should be happy with all the good you see, not be bothered by the huge problem hovering before you.

[blogslut]

8. Perhaps not

And perhaps anti-LGBT won't have much affect on the coming vote, but this will:

Texas Republicans add Arizona-like residency checks to platform

07:58 PM CDT on Saturday, June 12, 2010

By GROMER JEFFERS JR. / The Dallas Morning News
[email protected]

Texas Republicans voted Saturday to call for a state law to require local police officers to verify that people arrested on suspicion of a crime are in the country legally.


If Republicans have their way, the Legislature would make it a crime for an illegal immigrant to “intentionally or knowingly” be in the state of Texas.

The proposal, similar to the controversial law in Arizona, is part of the legislative priorities section of the platform approved Saturday at the state GOP convention in Dallas. Two state lawmakers have already promised to introduce such bills next year, although previous efforts to toughen immigration policies have come up short in past sessions. Gov. Rick Perry has said he doesn’t think Texas should adopt a law similar to Arizona’s.

The platform contains the stated policy beliefs and goals of the party, though candidates and officeholders are not bound to it...

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/061210dnpolgopimmig.97963a15.html">link

Texas is minority/majority state and, with this little bit of racist crap, The TX GOP just lost all those Hispanic/Latino votes they gained while Dubya was in office. They dug themselves a real deep hole and I am pleased as punch about it.

[Warpy]

9. Naw, they're usually two executives

making two executive salaries and who don't want the marriage penalty paid by working spouses. They love that illusion of tax cuts.

Since financial reform appears DOA this year and another crash seems to be in the offing, maybe their numbers will be depleted as those executives have to scramble for any low level job they can get.

[KonaKane]

21. Nothing bothers them. They are impervious to criticism

I have never been able to figure this oddly paradoxic, stubborn group out.

[hamsterjill]

2. Once again, it is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt

That we have some serious loonies in Texas.

Please accept my apologies for the idiots in Texas who have these mindsets. And please know that there are many Texans who certainly do not support policies such as these!

How in the hell do these people think they are going to build enough prisons to house everyone that THEY want to put away?

[Sebastian Doyle]

6. "Well, see that's all part of our plan......

....see, first thing we do is round up all the Mexicans and force them into labor camps to build the prisons. Then we throw them back over the Rio Grande, and then round up all the queers. God bless Texas! YEEEEEEHAAAAW!!11!1!!!1

[Posteritatis]

19. I imagine the fans of this plan aren't terribly concerned about prisons

A lot of them would probably prefer more permanent solutions.

[loudsue]

4. This is the official "put democrats in jail" platform.

Texas just gets funnier by the day. It's all those chemicals george bush let them dump into the water and the air and soil. It's doing funny things with their brains.

[The Backlash Cometh]

5. Welcome to the U.S.S.R.

You don't know how lucky you are.

[gateley]

10. Holy shit! When do we begin with the amputation of body parts? nt

[xchrom]

11. recommend

[Initech]

12. Wow. This is, dare I say, Nazi-esque?

[Posteritatis]

17. It's pretty Ugandan at the very least. (nt)

[Winterblues]

13. They "Hate us for our Freedoms"

:shrug: The Republican Party is filled with entirely too much hatred.

[RaleighNCDUer]

14. What you won't do when trying to keep up with Arizona. nt

[Bucky]

15. Looks like my fellow Texans are moving on past the "First they came for the Jews" stage

But let me tell you what's really going on here. I think some Texas Republicans were worried that South Carolina might be passing us up in the "most fucked up state" competition.

[FBI_Un_Sub]

16. Wasn't Gov Rick Perry talking secession

Wasn't Gov Rick Perry talking secession? Go! Don't let the door hit you in the butt.

[Posteritatis]

18. I'm sort of impressed they aren't even trying to code some of that stuff. Guh. (nt)

[EFerrari]

22. The impunity is startling. We need to tent the country. n/t

[walldude]

20. "WE believe"... yeah you do. And you are wrong. Get over it.

The next time some asshole who is on his 4th wife tells me how gays are destroying the "fabric of society and breaking down the family unit" I'm going to slap the shit outta them..

[Jester Messiah]

23. How do they even call themselves conservative?

They actually advocate government intrusion into the bedroom? Shouldn't their "fellow" conservatives be *ahem* tearing them a new one right about now?

[McCamy Taylor]

24. If homophobics are part of your base, you have a lot of closeted gays in your party.

I hope that Republicans realize this, and that it gives them nightmares.

[Kievan Rus]

25. This is why EVERY DEMOCRAT needs to VOTE IN NOVEMBER

I know that there's a lot of Democrats out there that we don't agree with. But, the right wing has gone completely off the deep end since Obama won the White House. And their base is energized. If (God forbid) they regain Congress and the White House, the 1950s will seem downright progressive to what this country has in store for it.

If you stay home in November, you're helping give Congressional and Senate seats to unapologetic corporatists, paranoid teabaggers, and whacko fundamentalists.

[Angry Dragon]

26. "Slip, sliding away..........."

It has become the norm in this country to figure out the most outlandish statements and rules one can think of to stay in power.
I have a plan, follow me to oblivion.........
One can only hope that these people can not reproduce

[Manifestor_of_Light]

27. They no comprende Full Faith & Credit Clause.

That's why a Dallas judge granted a gay couple a divorce who had been legally married in Massachusetts and moved to Texas. Greg Abbott had a shit fit.

The Full Faith & Credit Clause is why gay marriage will eventually be legal in all 50 states and the territories, and the conservatives won't be able to do a damn thing about it.

Oh, and throw in the 14th Amendment Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses while you're at it.


:banghead:

[Heywood J]

28. This is Texas...

I'm surprised this is only being added to the platform just now. I thought it was always part of the Texas GOP.

[Nikki Stone1]

29. So how bipartisan do we go on this?

It's a legitimate question.

[vercetti2021]

30. I'm

Even ashamed to call myself a texan anymore, this state has to many whack jobs coming from it, it needs to be put to a end, plus i heard Perry aka mr. lazy hair only works 8 hours a week! What a fucktard and this state of conservitards. Texas needs to go blue ASAP!

[Regret My New Name]

31. Is this the actual document?

http://static.texastribune.org/media/documents/FINAL_2010_STATE_REPUBLICAN_PARTY_PLATFORM.pdf


never mind, I see it....

[D23MIURG23]

32. rec'd - fuck those bigots.