Texas official defends recorded racist remarks: ‘Get those blacks off the school board’ (via Raw Story )
A Texas city council member defended racist comments she made in a private conversation that was recorded. Connie Trube, a two-term La Marque City Council member, made the comments while discussing the financial and academic troubles in the La Marque…
If you can be convinced to ignore the science on Climate Change you can be convinced to ignore the science on gay reparative therapy.
Texas GOP platform embraces discredited therapy to cure ‘unacceptable’ LGBT people (via Raw Story )
In a draft copy of its official party platform, the Texas Republican Party has classified LGBT people as aberrant and endorsed the discredited practice of so-called “reparative therapy,” which seeks to rid people of same-sex attractions and turn…
From Think Progress we learn Texas is making Florida work for “Most Messed Up State in The Union”…
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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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Tim Murphy writes for Mother Jones and was a great interview last month. Here’s his latest from Mother Jones:
State Sen. Dan Patrick (R): Defending his party’s chaotic effort to force through a vote as the session was ending, the founder of the state’s tea party caucus told former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on his radio show that lawmakers had an obligation to ignore proper Senate rules and procedure if it meant saving fetuses: “I spoke to my colleagues and said, when Jesus criticized the Pharisees, he criticized them because their laws and their rules were more important than actually taking care of people. And in my view, stopping a debate to save thousands of lives, well, saving the thousands of lives is more important than our tradition of, well, you should never stop someone.”
The 10 Most Absurd Things Texas Republicans Said About Abortion This Year | Mother Jones.
Listen to my conversation with Tim below:
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