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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 07:33 PM Jun 2014

It's official: Texas GOP endorses ‘reparative therapy’ for gays



FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The Texas Republican Party now endorses so-called “reparative therapy” for gays under a new platform given final approval at its annual convention.

Roughly 7,000 delegates Saturday ratified the platform without debating their party’s stance on homosexuality on the convention floor. They instead argued for five hours over immigration and medical marijuana before adjourning.

Gay conservatives had lined up to speak against the therapy language that had been added earlier this week. But they never got a chance to address delegates because a parliamentary motion to approve the full platform was called first.

An influential tea party group called Texas Eagle Forum had urged the party to support psychological treatments that seek to turn gay people straight. Such therapies are banned for minors in New Jersey and California.

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http://www.salon.com/2014/06/07/texas_gop_endorses_reparative_therapy_for_gays/

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It's official: Texas GOP endorses ‘reparative therapy’ for gays (Original Post) DonViejo Jun 2014 OP
And whole steaming pile of stupid alp227 Jun 2014 #1
Thanks . . . that was good n/t Strelnikov_ Jun 2014 #8
Wow . . . the crazy train is accelerating n/t Strelnikov_ Jun 2014 #2
better idea: reparative therapy for Republicans nt G_j Jun 2014 #3
DUzy shenmue Jun 2014 #6
Even better idea: BrotherIvan Jun 2014 #14
that shit is psychologically damaging! m-lekktor Jun 2014 #4
Arrest and imprison the entire party for abuse randys1 Jun 2014 #7
TexASS blkmusclmachine Jun 2014 #5
Texas vies with Mississippi as the most backward state in the union CanonRay Jun 2014 #9
I always feel dirty when I rec a thread like this OKNancy Jun 2014 #10
um, you guys, redruddyred Jun 2014 #11
Throw away your old copy. Brickbat Jun 2014 #15
excuse me, I was thinking transgenderism. redruddyred Jun 2014 #18
not for over 40 years barbtries Jun 2014 #16
Nope. Hasn't been described as such for decades. sakabatou Jun 2014 #20
The AMA opposes so called reparaitive therapy (as if somethings broken) azurnoir Jun 2014 #12
they actually WANT to be stupid. barbtries Jun 2014 #13
Hateful and stupid, no one group does it better in America than the Tea Party. n/t Jefferson23 Jun 2014 #17
Now this is the group who needs therapy starting with Ted Cruz. Thinkingabout Jun 2014 #24
Gay conservatives ............ PumpkinAle Jun 2014 #19
$$$. nt Jamaal510 Jun 2014 #23
I'll tell ya who needs serious therapy... SoapBox Jun 2014 #21
Fuck them all. NealK Jun 2014 #22
Remember The Alamoron! Tom Ripley Jun 2014 #25
so all you people who claim there are DECENT republicans Skittles Jun 2014 #26
A challenge to these stupid fucks: I'll give y'all a year to make me straight. You can't use Zorra Jun 2014 #27
Sickening! nt Live and Learn Jun 2014 #28
Moral bankruptcy blackspade Jun 2014 #29

BrotherIvan

(9,126 posts)
14. Even better idea:
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 08:05 PM
Jun 2014

Make Republicans illegal. I think we might just do it here in CA. Issa should be the first victim.

OKNancy

(41,832 posts)
10. I always feel dirty when I rec a thread like this
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 07:52 PM
Jun 2014

I wish that jerk that is from Texas who always makes stupid jokes about Oklahoma would show up.
Texas is just as bad.

barbtries

(28,702 posts)
16. not for over 40 years
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 08:11 PM
Jun 2014
http://psychology.ucdavis.edu/faculty_sites/rainbow/html/facts_mental_health.html

Removal from the DSM
In 1973, the weight of empirical data, coupled with changing social norms and the development of a politically active gay community in the United States, led the Board of Directors of the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Some psychiatrists who fiercely opposed their action subsequently circulated a petition calling for a vote on the issue by the Association's membership. That vote was held in 1974, and the Board's decision was ratified.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
24. Now this is the group who needs therapy starting with Ted Cruz.
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 11:13 PM
Jun 2014

This group is crazy and going downhill, hurry, they need the therapy immediately.

PumpkinAle

(1,210 posts)
19. Gay conservatives ............
Sat Jun 7, 2014, 09:29 PM
Jun 2014

why do they vote Republican, they will never be truly accepted and yet somehow feel they have something in common with the hateful rhetoric coming from their party.

Skittles

(152,964 posts)
26. so all you people who claim there are DECENT republicans
Sun Jun 8, 2014, 01:44 AM
Jun 2014

understand this: THEY SUPPORT A PARTY that is homophobic, racist, misogynist, anti-worker, anti-science, etc. THEY ARE NOT OK!!!

Zorra

(27,670 posts)
27. A challenge to these stupid fucks: I'll give y'all a year to make me straight. You can't use
Sun Jun 8, 2014, 03:25 AM
Jun 2014

torture, drugs, or any other type of abusive physical practices to do it. (A little peyote twice a month is ok).

When, at the end of one year, your efforts have resulted in monumental epic fail, you pay me five million dollars, and donate another $5 million dollars to the respective LGBT charities and organizations of my choice.

You phony hypocrites need to either put up or shut up. I'm calling all you stupid Texas republican bullshit bigot fucks out right here

Post an affirmative response here within one week, and I'll be your huckleberry; well make private arrangements. I know y'all won't accept my challenge, because the entire world, except for other phony christian fascist pigs like yourselves, knows for a fact that you're all a bunch of piece of shit lyin' phony hateful hypocrites.

So get those old white sheets and hoods out of your closets, put 'em on, burn your crosses bright in the night, and let the games begin...or just STFU forever with your ignorant hate based gay therapy bullshit. If anyone needs serious, intensive psychological, emotional, and spiritual help, it is definitely y'all.

Seek help. Most learned hatreds like yours can be cured...with patience, and a whole lot of love.

You pathetic phony "christian" losers. Whats the matter? You chicken? Nah, I think you already know "gay reparative therapy" is just some fairytale y'all invented to justify the intense hatred you feel for anyone and everyone who is different from you.

Either bring it, or grovel under the microscope of your lies, bullies. I'll be waiting.

The whole world is watching.

Much (Tough) Love,
Zorra

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