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Texas Republican Party Drafts New Platform Advocating For Ex-Gay Therapy

Texas Republican Party Drafts New Platform Advocating For Ex-Gay Therapy

From Think Progress we learn Texas is making Florida work for “Most Messed Up State in The Union”…

Texas Republican Party Drafts New Platform Advocating For Ex-Gay Therapy

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Earlier this week, the Dallas Voice reported that the Texas Republican Party had stripped language from its platform that claimed that “homosexuality tears at the fabric of society and contributes to the breakdown of the family,” but the Houston Chronicle now reports that the language has been replaced with a different kind of condemnation. According to a first draft the Chronicle obtained, the Texas GOP will now endorse ex-gay therapy for “patients who are seeking escape from the homosexual lifestyle”: Homosexuality must not be presented as an acceptable alternative lifestyle, in public policy, nor should family […]

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Gay Senators Who Opposed ENDA

Gay Senators Who Opposed ENDA

Senators Mitch McConnell and Lindsey Graham both voted against ENDA which would prohibit LGBT discrimination in the workplace. But are Senators McConnell and Graham gay? The two GOP senators are running for reelection in 2014, are their constituents entitled to know that Senators McConnell and Graham are gay? Or can you be a GOP senator who is gay and also oppose laws that would end discrimination of gays in the workplace? We talk with Howie Klein the founder and treasurer of the Blue America PAC. New movies with Michael Snyder, and new music from Will Ryan and The Cactus County Cowboys along with Jeremy S. Kramer.

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