Sunday, June 19, 2022

June 2022 - Texas Republican Party Platform

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; 
  • 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.” 

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