Texas GOP Platform Calls For A Return To Racial Discrimination And Intolerance
The Texas GOP platform is calling for Congress to repeal the Voting Rights Act of 1963. The exact words are, “we urge that the Voter Rights of 1965, codified and updated in 1973, be repealed and not reauthorized.” Texas has decided to rescind the vote of African Americans, Latinos, anyone not white. Women and non-Christians can’t be far behind.
Anti-gay, anti-woman, anti-diversity, anti-education, the platform a reads like a manifesto for dominionism. As per Rachel Maddow….
Rachel Maddow said,
Having read the Texas platform, which is no doubt a reflection of the platform we can expect to see at the Republican convention and given the fact the Supreme Court refused to revisit Citizens United this week, I would say they have already infiltrated and are well on their way to taking over politics and government.
A few excerpts from the Texas GOP Platform:
Conscience Clause – We believe that doctors, nurses, pharmacists, any employees of hospitals and insurance companies, health care organizations, medical and scientific research students, and any employee should be protected by Texas law if they conscientiously object to participate in practices that conflict with their moral or
religious beliefs, including but not limited to abortion, the prescription for and dispensing of drugs with abortifacient potential, human cloning, embryonic stem cell research, eugenic screenings, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and the withdrawal of nutrition and hydration. We call on the Texas Legislature to pass legislation to strengthen and clarify the current conscience clause in the Occupational Code to include the above-mentioned persons and practices. We further encourage legislation that requires hospitals and clinics to inform all health care personnel of their right to refuse to become involved in abortion or euthanasia, and their protection from prosecution and retaliation under Texas law.
As far as I’m concerned the platform is one of the most virulent desecration of the American flag I have ever witnessed.
Live loud, love fierce, and suffer no fools. Katherine Manaan
12:56 pm
The souls of Alamo Defenders like James Crockett, David Bowie and all other deceased must be rolling over in their graves! The GOP have turned the name “TEXAN” into a dirty word!
1:44 am
EverythIng else aside. Do they know that wearing an American flag and pretty much anything resembling an American flag is against the US Code (therefor a desecration). Whenever I see people flailing their patriotism wrapped in some flag apparel, I have to laugh. I mean, these are things I learned in boy scouts. All real right wing Americans were scouts once right? I though it must be a requirement at some level.
12:38 pm
Below is a list of the GOP’s 2012 talking points, as elucidated by various conservative politicians and pundits:
- Corporations are people.
- Voting is a privilege, not a right.
- Federal workplace standards and business regulations are unAmerican.
- Women who use birth control are sluts.
- A chicken in every pot, and a spy-cam in every uterus.
- College students are snobs.
- Students who must obtain federal loans are unworthy of a college education.
- Public education is part of a left wing brainwashing conspiracy.
- Gay Americans are an abomination.
- Poor people deserve to be poor.
- Union workers are socialist thugs.
- The unemployed are lazy parasites.
- Latinos are illegal until proven otherwise.
- Naturalized citizens with heavy accents are not true Americans.
- The Bible trumps the Constitution.
- America is a Christian nation.
- Secularism equals Satanism.
- Global warming is a hoax.
- Environmentalism is unpatriotic and an attack on the will of God.
- The U.S. auto industry should go bankrupt.
- Cutting taxes for the ultra-wealthy and subsidizing corporations is patriotic.
- Cutting taxes for the middle class and providing funding for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and the Food Stamp program is unpatriotic.
- If you cannot afford to pay for your family’s health insurance coverage or preventative health care, then all of you are simply taking up oxygen and deserve to die anyway.
- All progressives are communists.
- Liberal Democrats hate America.
- The U.S. President is a Muslim socialist agent from Kenya.