Did we all just get sent back to the 1990s?

This Neolithic mindset may play well with the 10-11% of the population who are the Republican base, but everyone else has moved on.

New Texas GOP Platform Declares Homosexuality "Abnormal Lifestyle Choice"

It also opposes "all efforts to validate transgender identity," and supports "Reintegrative Therapy" to eliminate "unwanted same-sex attraction."

By Mary Pappenfuss | Jun 19, 2022

In a giant step into the dark ages, the newly adopted platform of the Texas Republican Party now officially declares that homosexuality is an "abnormal choice."

The shocking platform, voted on by 5,100 delegates and alternates Saturday at the party's biennial convention in Houston, also affirms Texas Republicans' opposition to "all efforts to validate transgender identity" ― and calls for a ban on any gender-affirming medical care, including hormone therapy, for anyone under the age of 21.

Yet the platform supports debunked and dangerous conversion therapy — which it terms "Reintegrative Therapy" — to turn members of the LGBTQ community into heterosexuals and eliminate "unwanted same-sex attraction."

The platform spells out other positions explicitly opposed to the LGBTQ community under its section on "Homosexuality and Gender Issues." It opposes offering any special protections for members of the LGBTQ community, and renounces penalties for those who discriminate against the community.

Delegates at the convention were peppered with flyers attacking the LGBTQ community, including one warning: "Beware of the Homosexual Agenda."

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And once again I say we just dig a 5-mile wide moat around the Texas border and say "Buh-Bye!"