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n2doc

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Fri Jun 6, 2014, 08:41 AM Jun 2014

Texas GOP advances ‘reparative therapy’ for gays

By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, June 6, 2:54 AM

FORT WORTH, Texas — The Texas Republican Party would endorse psychological treatment that seeks to turn gay people straight under a new platform partly aimed at rebuking laws in California and New Jersey that ban so-called “reparative therapy” on minors.

A push to include the new anti-gay language survived a key vote late Thursday in Fort Worth at the Texas Republican Convention where, across the street, tea party star U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz fired up attendees at a rally to defend marriage as between a man and a woman.

Under the new proposed plank, the Texas GOP will “recognize the legitimacy and efficacy of counseling, which offers reparative therapy and treatment for those patients seeking healing and wholeness from their homosexual lifestyle.”

The full convention of nearly 10,000 delegates from across Texas will take a final vote on the platform Saturday.

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Texas GOP advances ‘reparative therapy’ for gays (Original Post) n2doc Jun 2014 OP
I'd like some reparative therapy for that sick piece of Teabagging filth theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #1

theHandpuppet

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1. I'd like some reparative therapy for that sick piece of Teabagging filth
Fri Jun 6, 2014, 09:28 AM
Jun 2014

But I think it's a hopeless case.

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