{"id":5827,"date":"2014-06-08T19:14:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T19:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=5827"},"modified":"2014-06-08T19:14:53","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T19:14:53","slug":"its-official-texas-gop-has-gone-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5827","title":{"rendered":"It's official: Texas GOP has gone mad"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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This idea might not be a flash for some folks, but it is to me.<\/p>\n

The Texas Republican Party has officially flipped its wig, gone bananas, become certifiably insane by adopting a plank it its party platform that endorses the notion that gay people can be made un-gay by something called “reparative therapy.”<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/texas-gop-endorses-reparative-therapy-gays-n125471<\/p>\n

The Texas GOP has concluded its meeting in Fort Worth. It came down hard on a lot of policy issues dealing with immigration, abortion and climate change. They disagree with Democrats on all those things. I get that.<\/p>\n

It’s the idea, though, that gay folks can be counseled away from their orientation that simply blows my ever-loving mind.<\/p>\n

I say this as a heterosexual male who never once — at any time in my life — decided<\/em> I would prefer to be intimate with females.<\/p>\n

And it’s that understanding of human sexuality that simply makes this Republican Party platform plank so difficult to accept.<\/p>\n

Of all the gay people I’ve ever known or read about, never have I heard of someone choosing<\/em> to be scorned, vilified, demonized, insulted, assaulted or otherwise denigrated because they choose to love someone of the same sex.<\/p>\n

According to the Texas Republican Party, however, “reparative therapy” suggests that homosexuality is a preferred lifestyle rather than an orientation to which someone is born. The platform plank adopted by the GOP says that the party recognizes “the legitimacy and efficacy of counseling, which offers reparative therapy and treatment for those patients seeking healing and wholeness from their homosexual lifestyle.”<\/p>\n

There you have it.<\/p>\n

The Republican Party of Texas has slammed itself into reverse and is heading into the Dark Ages.<\/p>\n

Amazing.<\/p>\n\n

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This idea might not be a flash for some folks, but it is to me. The Texas Republican Party has officially flipped its wig, gone bananas, become certifiably insane by adopting a plank it its party platform that endorses the notion that gay people can be made un-gay by something called “reparative therapy.” http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/texas-gop-endorses-reparative-therapy-gays-n125471 The … Continue reading It's official: Texas GOP has gone mad<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2161,3896,4622,4690],"class_list":["post-5827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-homosexuality","tag-reparative-therapy","tag-texas-gop","tag-texas-republican-convention"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5827\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}