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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt'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 partys 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/
alp227
(31,959 posts)PZ Myers read the platform so you don't have to.
Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)G_j
(40,366 posts)BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Make Republicans illegal. I think we might just do it here in CA. Issa should be the first victim.
m-lekktor
(3,675 posts)they are vile asshoes!
randys1
(16,286 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)CanonRay
(14,036 posts)A race to the bottom!
OKNancy
(41,832 posts)I wish that jerk that is from Texas who always makes stupid jokes about Oklahoma would show up.
Texas is just as bad.
redruddyred
(1,615 posts)homosexuality is still a mental illness as per the dsm.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)It hasn't been since 1974.
redruddyred
(1,615 posts)and they fixed that a couple of years ago.
barbtries
(28,702 posts)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.
sakabatou
(42,082 posts)azurnoir
(45,850 posts)but wait for these guys in the GOP that's all like science and stuff
barbtries
(28,702 posts)at least it seems that way to me.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)This group is crazy and going downhill, hurry, they need the therapy immediately.
PumpkinAle
(1,210 posts)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.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Pukes and TeaTaliban.
Sickos.
NealK
(1,788 posts)Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Skittles
(152,964 posts)understand this: THEY SUPPORT A PARTY that is homophobic, racist, misogynist, anti-worker, anti-science, etc. THEY ARE NOT OK!!!
Zorra
(27,670 posts)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
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)blackspade
(10,056 posts)The GOP is the anti-gay party.