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Re: Texas Republican Platform

Posted: Mon Jun 20, 2022 7:20 am
by Rideback
Given that platform perhaps it was wise of the GOP to decline to have any platform at all in the 2020 election.

Texas Republican Platform

Posted: Sun Jun 19, 2022 8:35 pm
by just-jim
The Republican party appears to be headed completely off the rails….

From today’s (6/19) Heather C Richardson column;

“…. delegates to a convention of the Texas Republican Party today approved platform planks rejecting “the certified results of the 2020 Presidential election, and [holding] that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States”; requiring students “to learn about the dignity of the preborn human,” including that life begins at fertilization; treating homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice”; locking the number of Supreme Court justices at 9; getting rid of the constitutional power to levy income taxes; abolishing the Federal Reserve; rejecting the Equal Rights Amendment; returning Christianity to schools and government; ending all gun safety measures; abolishing the Department of Education; arming teachers; requiring colleges to teach “free-market liberty principles”; defending capital punishment; dictating the ways in which the events at the Alamo are remembered; protecting Confederate monuments; ending gay marriage; withdrawing from the United Nations and the World Health Organization; and calling for a vote “for the people of Texas to determine whether or not the State of Texas should reassert its status as an independent nation.”

Yep, really.

Jim Archambeault