Religious Right solidifies control over Texas GOP

[DaveSZ]

Let's not elect any more presidents from Texas!


http://www.statesman.com/metrostate/content/auto/epaper/editions/saturday/metro_state_041c079a4415608d00bd.html

*snip*

For many delegates at the three-day convention, religion and politics commingle with comfort, purpose and zeal. Delegates on Friday approved a platform that refers to "the myth of the separation of church and state."

It's a platform that offers tangible evidence of how religion -- a specific brand of religion -- guides Texas' party in power.

A plank in a section titled "Promoting Individual Freedom and Personal Safety" proclaims the United States a "Christian nation."

The rewritten "Celebrating Traditional Marriage" section now calls for legislation making it a felony for anyone to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple or for a "civil official" to perform a wedding ceremony for such couples.

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[GreenPartyVoter]

1. These people are sick

and have no use for real individual freedoms.

[DaveSZ]

3. The arrogance is what amazes me

This platform is the culmination of a great sense of religious arrogance and a lack of knowledge of our nation's history.

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. They really have gone too far.

These people have the same agenda pushed by white supremacists. How timely that this is all happening this weekend. Now we know that Reaganomics was a Trojan Horse for what may turn out to be an act of succession.

[Vickers]

2. Wow, just when you think Texas couldn't get any worse

BAM!

No offense to the good, patriotic, COnstitution-loving Texans out there: I grew up in Georgia, so I know how it feels to "lose" a state to fringe fanatics.

[DaveSZ]

4. Check out the platform here:

http://www.theocracywatch.org/texas_gop.htm


She's updated her site a bit.

[jmowreader]

19. I like this one: Federal Judiciary Reform

The Party calls on the House of Representatives and the Senate to exercise their authority to impeach and remove federal judges who abuse their constitutional authority.

I interpret that to mean that they want the five idiots who stopped the Florida recounts in 2000 removed from the Supreme Court. They probably interpret it to mean they want the judges who sided with Michael Newdow removed because they were going against the will of God.

Judicial Restraint is a bit worrisome..."we support the principle of judicial restraint, which requires judges to interpret and apply rather than make the law." Listen close, lurking freepers: "activist judge" means a judge who interprets and applies the law in ways you don't like.

[izzie]

7. Makes me think of the KKK only they do not hit the Pope or Jews.

I think they use a few others in their place. Scary but maybe good that they now seem to think they have such power they can put this out to every one. May wake up some people.

[elfwitch]

24. not out loud they don't

But they would be more than willing to "eliminate" Jews if they though they could gt away with it. They want all Jews back in Israel so they can have their little Apocalypse.

[libhill]

16. I am a Texan, and I just don`t get it

this state used to be solidly Democratic when I was coming up, bragged about having had no use for repukes since Reconstruction - I don`t know what the fuk happened, but I`m ready to get outta this state. Its just plain weird.

[JayS]

23. In a word, complacency on the part of the Democratic Party. n/t

n/t

[drscm]

5. There are times that I wish I believed in the vengeful Jesus they

preach, so that he could strike them down.

Their hubris, selfishness and self-centeredness leave little room in their hard, black hearts for the compassion that Christ taught.

They are the pharisees of our day, white (not whitened) sepulchers whose souls are stench.

[lpricanprynces]

6. Felony?

Yes, here in Texas, a child molestor can receive deferred adjudication for diddling a little kid, but they want to make it a felony to marry consenting adults who just happen to be gay?

God, some people are wharped mentally.

[DaveSZ]

12. We'll be ok though.

As long as we don't allow * to appoint any SC justcies, we'll be ok.

This is what they want to roll back though, and with a Scalia SC, they'll get that chance:

http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/church-state/decisions.html

[newyawker99]

22. Hi lpricanprynces!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[bogey18]

8. "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ,

"If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, then it is good enough for Texas children."
--Texas Governor Ferguson (on Spanish being taught in Texas public schools.)

Sometimes it is hard to imagine how dumb some of these people are...but then we have examples.

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. Welcome bogey18

That quote is better than one a freeper said on the internet, "Jesus will come again, and his name shall be Roy." In reference to the Judge who tried to allow the ten commandants to be displayed in the courthouse.

[NoPasaran]

17. I think she was actually against teaching Latin

A bit of an anti-Catholic dig there.

[Catt03]

11. Are they a little confused?

Do they know they are a state and not a country?

[LittleApple81]

13. Bush declared Texas a country in France.

When they told him JFK's quote:

"Benjamin Franklin once said that every American has two homes--his own country and France. And I am sure that in this visit which I undertake that I bring to France and to President de Gaulle the appreciation, the respect and esteem of all of the people of this country who value his courage over a period of 20 years in which he has served as one of the great Captains of the West."

Bush* said:

"To re-paraphrase John Kennedy, there is America and there is Texas."

TEXAS IS AN ALIEN COUNTRY (not even foreign, it is ALIEN). Look at the Texas GOP platform. IT IS UNBELIEVABLE.

[jmowreader]

20. Their marketing slogan is "it's like a whole nother country"

And now we know what kind of whole nother country: it is a Taliban-style theocracy with Christian mullahs instead of Islamic ones, and no burqas because they squish the Big Hair.

[bluestateguy]

14. This is why I'll be leaving Texas in the next year or two

I just don't fit in here, and I am outvoted in election after election.

I am a blue state guy.

[DaveSZ]

15. I don't fit in here either

This platform is what I would also consider unChristian.

[liveoaktx]

18. Please! You're talking about the GOP, not Texas Democrats

Just because the Faux Texan Bushes came from here doesn't mean a democrat should be discounted in the future merely because he or she is from Texas.

[The Backlash Cometh]

21. Okay.

I'll vote for the Texas Democrat who cleans up the mess in Texas.