“restrict citizenship to children born in the United States whose parents are citizens”

14th amendment any one?

What year is it in Texas?

We should ban republicon marriages…they reproduce.

Texas is also planning, like Arizona, to legally ban pre-marital sex and also adultery. So much for limited government. What a bunch of hypocrites.

These people need political suicide counseling!

Now if they went with the last of those scenarios listed above, wouldn't that leave the Republican Party a bit short of politicians?

The American Taliban in action!

Is it too late to give Texas back to Mexico? Many heterosexual couple perform “sodomy” on a nightly basis. Imagine going to jail for getting oral sex from your wife. Yep, typical Rethuglicans and their homoerotic fantasizing.

Those Mega Churches are outta control. Fascist GOP are a bunch of ultra dangerous perv weirdos. Don't let your children near them! All real Nazis are closeted repressed homosexuals. How they can cause havoc. FreakShow. Zero I.Q. Daddy beat the shit out of them. How they show their colors these days. I know, I know, just stating the obvious…

I think Texas should dump their leaders political and spiritial both in the Gulf of Mexico at the old BP site and let them swim back to shore those that make it can stay.

Gay Marriage is WRONG, but what you do behind your own door should be PRIVATE. If you want to come into the USA, then do it LEGALLY. If you want to be an AMERICAN, abide by the LAWS of THE UNITED STATES and BE PROUD to be an AMERICA. Stand up for your RIGHTS as a CITIZEN and QUIT letting ILLEGALS have FREE Insurance and Welfare!

Theocracy is just non-sensical whether the theocrats are Christians, Muslims, or Pastafarians.

So if I understand this correctly…. Participating in oral sex would be a felony punishable for 5 to 15 years.

Based on my activity last month I would be in jail for life. OUCH!

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Does freedom of religion mean nothing to this country anymore? Lots of us have beliefs that don't try to send us into fire and hell for everything we do. Our gods couldn't care less what makes us happy as long as we succeed in spreading beauty and love through this world to the best of our personal ability. If one wants to impose a biblical offense on someone who doesn't believe in the bible, isn't that just the exact same thing being done by terrorists over seas? “What we think is right IS right. No room for compassion.”

This whole thing, everything involved in this platform, just breaks my heart. And I was having such high hopes for humanity. People would rather be told what is right than face the consequences of learning for themselves.

Why would gay marriage be wrong? If you were married to the love of your life, and for whatever reason your wife had a sex change. Would that mean that you don't love her anymore? What is wrong with marrying your soulmate regardless of thier sex? People are different, and have different beliefs! It's all part of life, everyone should just start getting used to change!

No, *hypocrisy* is wrong. trying to ram your own narrow religious beliefs and interpretations down the throats of others is wrong. Your self-anointed “party of conservative Christian family values” is a fraud: http://www.armchairsubversive.org

Hypocrisy Incarnate, thy name *remains* GOP, as in “Greedy Old PErverts.”

Yeeeach.

DID I READ THAT CORRECTLY (?):

“restrict citizenship to children born in the United States whose parents are citizens”

WTF… Here's a suggestion, go after Rick Perry's children first. Never thought people would actually declare their desires to have humanity regress, guess I was wrong.

Go after John McCain, AZ senator; he was born in Panama.

Boy these closet cases just never quit, do they? From Tx of course…. land of the traitors

To steal a quote, it is time to rid Conservatism from this Nation like a burning cane field in a high wind.

Oh grow up americanwoman and join the 21st century. Youd marry your dildo if you could so piss off

Extremism begets more and opposite extremism. When you let one party get away with selectively enforcing and ignoring the laws that it finds inconvenient to its “special interests”, pretty soon, everyone wants in on the “game”. And that is what we are being reduced to by the recent succession of worthless and irresponsible leaders playing the “election game”.

it's past time to CRIMINALIZE THE GOP HYPOCRITES
whose special interests are breaking apart the country the past ten years.
Away with them!

So does this mean they will also arrest heterosexual couples engaging in anal or oral sex?

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Look, repeating what you hear from FOX News doesn't work here on this forum. Do you know how hard it is for American Citizens to get Welfare? I know people that are in terrible situations and have been denied Food Stamps and Welfare because they still possess “assets” that they could liquidate for quick cash – you know, like their only car or their personal possessions. Getting welfare is very difficult and it just isn't handed out like candy.

Please tell me where I can find the GAO numbers that officially state the number of illegal immigrants currently on welfare. Why don't you post that instead of just blabbering off something you heard from Rush or Hannity.

Oral and anal sex are well known (and fun) ways to practice birth control, so of course! Procreation or damnation. While we're at it, why don't we start promoting female circumcisions, lest they actually enjoy it as much as their “man…”

That's change we can believe in!

They're just jealous because they know kinky liberals have more fun ;)

ya do it.this means that 99.9% of congress will be behind bars.oh,they might like that.they do have nice prisons and the golf is just wonderful.

The 14 year marriage my wife and I have indulged in would have brought about the apocalypse if there was any truth to their fallacy, I mean religion.

Save a soul, eat a pussy, that's what I say! Or an ass, but only after a shower ;)

Today's news headlines never fail to amaze … even though I'm not shocked considering it's Texass Rethuglicants …but still WTF! This American Taliban, knuckle-dragging Christofascists actually want to impose their “Christian” Sharai law. I'd hate to be a gay person or a Mexican immigrant living in TX … or worse yet a gay Mexican immigrant!

Excellent. This is great news. The Texas Republicans will distinguish itself as the neanderthal party.
Did they give any thought to their Mexican American base? Maybe they didn't notice that the new, popular Mayor of Houston is openly gay, happily partnered with children?
I agree with Rvrctyrdnck. These guys have seriously miscalculated. We'll finally rid ourselves of their infestation.

It is not possible in this country for illegals to get welfare. Even American citizens can't get welfare easily. Wake up and quit listening to the hate and fear mongers!

Homophobia and denying people equal rights is WRONG! Now, leave us Progressives alone and go back to your CON idols .. watching the suicider, Glenn Beck and listening to the drugster, Rush.

Lets take the whole party, cram them into a big box and ship it to Dubai. That'd keep the Dubai courts tied up ForEver, and the Texas Haters could find happiness becoming martyrs.

Texas: It's like a whole other planet!
There are times I ask myself if we all might have been better off in 1860 saying “See ya… don't let the door hit yer asses on the way out…”

mojo sends

Felony???
Well, they were voted into office. So the folks there have to live with it, not the rest of the country.
Good luck dumbasses.

SO if I stick a bowling pin up my butt, that's perfectly fine, but two consenting adult males wanna have gay sex (which is bizarre to me but oh well) then we need to turn them into FELONS?

Holy crap people, aren't there better things to do with our time?

There are people that do some sick sick weird stuff to each other. But it's not like they're hiding under my bed to SPRING it on me in front of my eyes. I live in Los Angeles and STILL never see two men kiss EVER…..in 2010.

Why is this such a threat to some people? There are people shooting needles in their arms and snorting chemicals that are KNOWN to be lethal.

So, yeah, two guys having BUTTSECKS is the last thing I wanna see. But that's why bedrooms have things called WALLS.

Let Texas and Arizona both leave the Union. They can become the United States of bigotry and ignorance.

Probably won't be long before we find out they are cheating on their wives WITH MEN!!!!! Isn't that how they operate?

What, no stoning of adulterers? Oh wait, then the entire TX GOP would be dead …

Give texass back to Mexico !

Actually, if you read the Republican Party platforms in many states (even California, the Carolinas, etc) you will find that their GOP platforms on the issues of homosexuality and other issues are very much the same. While it's very hard for liberals to accept, America is full of conservatives.

Sorry but Raw is going right wing….wouldn't publish this at other headlines……….
not a SPILL….but a TOXIC HEMORRHAGE

Yeah. They're similar in their opposition to gay marriage, not the criminalization of consensual sex. That kinda goes against the party of “anti-big government”. It also doesn't make sense that a party that says the government is inherently incompetent should suggest the government regulate people's private sex lives. This article just highlights that everybody but the most fringe elements have abandoned the GOP.

WTF Is wrong with these people. They bitch about the Taliban then turn around and try to create the same thing in principle. Texas shouldn't secede from the union. We should be kicking these backward a$$ idiots out of it. Then build a big wall so none of these idiots get in to contaminate the rest of us.

This is obviously a pre-election shaking of the reeds. Some crazy GOP extremist spouts of vitriol, the GOP smugly says “Well, that's extreme, but we understand the sentiment and support family values.” Then the Dems are approached by the press and ask “So, how about the racist fuckos down in Texas?” Then the Dems can either say “no comment,” which makes them a coward; or “those guys sure are crazy,” which alienates conservatives.

Lol is this a joke? It doesn't matter, because soon Texas will be majority latino, aka it will turn into a rightful blue state, and they will support gay marriage and all blue principles.

To those of you using the Bible as a weapon against homosexuality, you are wrong. Homosexuality is not a sin. The Bible is constantly being taken out of context to support anti-gay views. Scholars who have studied the Bible in context of the times and in relation to other passages have shown those passages (Leviticus, Corinthians, Romans, etc) have nothing to do with homosexuality. These passages often cherry-picked while ignoring the rest of the Bible. The sins theses passages are referring to are idolatry, Greek temple sex worship, prostitution, pederasty with teen boys, and rape, not homosexuality or two loving consenting adults.

http://www.soulfoodministry.org/docs/English/No…
http://www.jesus21.com/content/sex/bible_homose…
http://www.christchapel.com/reclaiming.html
http://www.stjohnsmcc.org/new/BibleAbuse/Biblic…
http://www.gaychristian101.com/

Thats why Jesus never mentions it as well. There is nothing immoral, wrong, or sinful about being gay. Jesus, however, clearly states he HATES hypocrites. If you preach goodness, then promote hate and twist the words of the Bible, you are a hypocrite, and will be judged and sent to hell. Homosexuals will not go to hell, hypocrites will.

This is very similar to the religious bigots of the past, where they took Bible passages to condone slavery, keep women down, and used Bible passages to claim blacks as curses who should be enslaved by the white man. People used God to claim that blacks marrying whites was unnatural, and not of God's will.

For those of you claiming homosexuality is a “lifestyle”, that is a false and ignorant statement. Homosexuality is not a choice. Just like you don't choose the color of your skin, you cannot choose whom you are sexually attracted to. If you can, sorry, but you are not heterosexual, you are bi-sexual. Virtually all major psychological and medical experts agree that sexual orientation is NOT a choice. Most gay people will tell you its not a choice. Common sense will tell you its not a choice. While science is relatively new to studying homosexuality, studies tend to indicate that its biological.

http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/03/differ…
http://www.newscientist.com/channel/sex/dn14146…
Gay, Straight Men's Brain Responses Differ
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,155990,00.html
http://www.livescience.com/health/060224_gay_ge…
http://www.springerlink.com/content/w27453600k5…
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/…

There is overwhelming scientific evidence that homosexuality is not a choice. Sexual orientation is generally a biological trait that is determined pre-natally, although there is no one certain thing that explains all of the cases. “Nurture” may have some effect, but for the most part it is biological.

And it should also be noted that:
“It is worth noting that many medical and scientific organizations do believe it is impossible to change a person's sexual orientation and this is displayed in a statement by American Academy of Pediatrics, American Counseling Association, American Association of School Administrators, American Federation of Teachers, American Psychiatric Association, American Psychological Association, American School Health Association, Interfaith Alliance Foundation, National Association of School Psychologists, National Association of Social Workers, and National Education Association.”

The National Library of Medicine pubs confirm that sexual orientation is natural, biologically induced in the first trimester of pregnancy, morally neutral, immutable, neither contagious nor learned, bearing no relation to an individuals ability to form deep and lasting relationships, to parent children, to work or to contribute to society.

From the American Psychological Association: homosexuality is normal; homosexual relationships are normal.

The American Academy of Pediatrics, American Psychological Asociation and American Psychiatric Asociation have endorsed civil marriage for same-sex couples because marriage strengthens mental and physical health and longevity of couples, and provides greater legal and financial security for children, parents and seniors.

America's premier child/mental health associations endorse marriage equality.

This was taken from another poster that shows why we need to legalize gay marriage. If you don't feel for this person after reading it, you simply aren't human.

“I am not sure what our President thinks of this dicission but coming from a poor family and knowing what discrimination is all about I would assume he would not care if “Gays” have equal rights. The whole reason why they are asking for rights to be considered married is from the same reason why I would be for it. My own life partner commited suicide in our home with a gun to his heart. After a 28 year union I was deprived to even go his funeral. We had two plots next to each other. But because we did not have a marriage cirtificate “(Legal Document)” of our union his mother had him cremated and his ashes taken back to Missouri where we came from. That is only one example how painful it is. His suicide tramatized me so much and her disregard for my feelings only added to my heartach. That happened on March 21 of 2007 and I still cannot type this without crying for the trauma I have to endure each day. Oh did I mention I am in an electric wheelchair for life? Yes I am and it is very diffacult to find another mate when you are 58 and in a wheelchair. “

The American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the National Association of Social Workers state:

“There is no scientific basis for distinguishing between same-sex couples and heterosexual couples with respect to the legal rights, obligations, benefits, and burdens conferred by civil marriage.”

http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/courts/supreme/high…

Thus, mental health professionals and researchers have long recognized that being homosexual poses no inherent obstacle to leading a happy, healthy, and productive life, and that the vast majority of gay and lesbian people function well in the full array of social institutions and interpersonal relationships.

http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/courts/supreme/high…

The research and clinical literature demonstrate that same-sex sexual and romantic attractions, feelings, and behaviors are normal and positive variations of human sexuality.

http://www.apa.org/pi/lgbt/resources/therapeuti…

The longstanding consensus of the behavioral and social sciences and the health and mental health professions is that homosexuality per se is a normal and positive variation of human sexual orientation.

http://www.apa.org/about/governance/council/pol…

Uh, did the leave out of their platform that all unmarried women should remain in the cloister of their home until their father obtains for them a suitable marriage partner? Or, that women should be seen (preferably escorted by a male family member) and not heard? Or, that single mothers tears at the fabric of society while contributing to the breakdown of the family unit. Or, that women should wear appropriate head wear to prevent the temptation of angels to come down to have sex with them thus producing Nephilim who will them corrupt mankind?

Welcome to The Dark Ages.

Depends on how you define “full of”. These people aren't much more than 20% of the population, but they vote in higher numbers.

No, because even gender-neutral “sodomy” laws are usually only enforced against gay people.

Ah, the Texas Taliban are at it again! The christian version of sharia law. Our enemies are no longer foreign. Perhaps Texas should secede so that we can invade it and destroy it for its oil. How sick do these people have to be to obsess over what other consenting adults do with their genitals?

The only reason I can see as to why Texas republicans are doing this is because it makes it more exciting for them when they are bent over a table being forceably taken by Rent-boy.

America loses to team Bin Laden. Score, Team Bin Laden wins everything America loses all including soul. Teabaggers go wild in the stands chanting OBL, OBL, OBL!

What about married GOP HERMAPHRODITES? Will these hypocrite GOOPERS arrest THEMSELVES? I demand they medically prove their own alleged “opposite sex” genders.

Do that Texas, and all of your children would be imprisoned!

1. Outlaw republicons.
2. Outlaw republicon marriage.
3. Outlaw republicon reproduction. (Charge pregnant republicons with conspiracy to create more criminals.)

So appropriate.

I just wish these Repube men would stop the self hatred and just admit they are gay.
Come on you Con men that post here.
Take the first step and admit you love penis. You certainly think about it enough.
It will set you free.

Jay I wish for that daily.
Fed troops march in and control Texazzzz in 12 minutes.
Con men are rounded up and tried for treason.
They are given depends as they have all crapped their pants in fear.
Jesus is a no show.
Then those found guilty in military tribunals are lined up and shot for being the traitors they are.
Perry is the first to go.

Shadow you should know by now that Cons dont trust education or intelligent people.
Facts dont matter.
Jesus rode in on his Jesus Horse (dinosaur) and told them to punish the gays..

AMERICANwoman, get away from me
AMERICANwoman, momma let me beee

Prsteve you arent talking about cons. You are talking about the cons that are bigots and haters. Most of the con men you are talking abut think about penis daily. They cover it up by saying they hate the gay. But in reality they are full of self loathing.
They have sexual ID issues.

Parrot these con men are afraid that they will be found out. They love penis. So they spend their time thinking about the gay and professing hatred of a fellow American citizen.

Has anyone ran this by Snopes.com? I mean,really,this is
too wacky to believe.

American woman is obviously a lez. She spends her days thinking about gays getting the right to marry. She covers her gayness up by pretending to believe its wrong. She has an obvious sexual ID issue.
And she is a traitor to the constitution.
She wants to treat some citizens as less than others. That is not American.
She is loyal to the American Taliban only.
AW please just come out of the closet and be free.

- Problem gambling, adultery, drug abuse, and committing murder are also behaviors. Should we promote and celebrate those as well ? If you say no, obviously you are a bigot and ignorant.
- Any other behavior (i.e. tattooing and drug use) that can spread disease is regulated.
- Government commandeered marriage as an institution when it had no business or right to do so. How about that so called separation of church and state that the ACLU loves so much ?
- Dark Ages ? We've gone from “How Much is That Puppy in the Window?” to BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP on the radio. Thanks for progression, liberals.
- Let's throw out all the norms, shall we, liberals ? We'll no longer use our names, street addresses, days of the week or months, not wear any clothes anytime, and we'll use our front lawns for a toilet … hey, c'mon, do you want to break away from the traditional or don't ya ?

You just can't handle the facts. Face it … when one guy looks at another guy's hard, hairy, smelly behind and sees love – HE has a major sickness. Very putrid, indeed.

Leave it to the dimwits that comprise the Texas GOP, but “The law of unintended consequences” would see far too many “Straight” folks being arrested for taking a “Walk on the wild side.” The Texas GOP's latest out-of-date mindset is laughable, especially in 2010. GD idiots.

That modern?

Whilst reading this at first seems amusing because it's so darn ridiculous, the more I think about it the more it troubles me. Society is seriously in a bad way when people with these views have a strong chance of being voted into power because if they do that position of authority is going to act as a form of validation that sure incredibly discriminatory views are acceptable. They are not.

What “tears the fabric of society” is divorce, but you won't hear a word from them about banning divorce, will you? Cafeteria Biblicans- they reject the teachings of Jesus and pick and choose verses of the Bible to support their stupidity and prejudice. Next time you hear somebody spout some homophobic garbage, ask them why they hate Jesus?

Another Jesus hatin' homophobe. Go read what Jesus taught, go pray as He told you to do, and get back to us with your apology

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Misleading story. It was just one guy that proposed this, not the Texas GOP.

I do not vote by party – I said I am a liberal conservative. I am shocked and saddened all the hatred that has emerged – especially in the southern states. Racism is barely disguised homophobia is unleashed, and now lawmakers want to control what happens in our rooms … shudder.

Hey, why not crucifixion? That would be a good penalty……either that our death camps
Texas is filled with Right wing radicals…..I am sure it would please them

The sexually phobic and flat earthers need to find another issue to focus their time and energy on in the 21st century. How about aiding in cleaning up the muck polluting the gulf coast?

Onward, Joe Mustich, Justice of the Peace,
Washington, Connecticut, USA.

I'm glad I live in a state that supports civil rights and marriage equality rights too.

The Taliban would be very comfortable in Texas. Aside from the pick-up trucks and prominent adam's apples, it would look like home.

So, the right is not ok with The Government being up in my business.

But, the right is ALL ABOUT The Government being up in my bedroom.

I have got to tell you…the right's obsession with things they shouldn't have control over is just astounding.
How about we enact a new law…if you legislate against a group of people, let's use homosexuals as an example, and it turns out you ARE one of those people…your law immediately gets overturned, and those negatively impacted are monetarily compensated OUT OF YOUR POCKET.

I guess to republicans gays are their niggers. They seem to have a need to persecute somebody.

Even if it *were* a lifestyle choice, it would be no one's business but the one who chose it.

People are afraid of things that are different from themselves.

(Also, does anyone else see the irony that one of the stories linked is from Fox “News”? )

I want to “like” this more than once!!!

Texas Republicans are becoming more and more like the Muslim Taliban. Its amazing the similarities!! Kind of ironic

Well the upside would be…we could send all the Catholic priests and GOP politicians to Texas and get them behind bars where they belong

This is self-loathing at its best: this crowd is no doubt infused with closet gays,

Nice post, Michelle. You'd think that of all the real problems we have in this country, these fanatics would try to tackle those instead of wasting their relentless and mis-directed energy on a lifestyle that has Constitutional protection. For example, they hate homosexuality because, for one thing, they think gay men commit more sex crimes that heterosexuals. This is nonsense. If they want to attack a real domestic-relationship problem then they should spenf their energy trying to stop beating and abuse of countless women by their “men.”

Wow, nice rant there Joe. But let's do a quick fact check. Gambling is legal, and a minority have a gambling problem. Nobody celebrates it, Marriage is legal, and a minority engage in adultery. Society does not condone it. Murder is a crime,people pay for it and nobody celebrates it. To put a gay lifestyle into the same category as murder is nonsense, and to co mpare it with problem gambling is an inappropriate comparison. Gambling ruins lives, gay lifestyles in and of themselves do not. Instead of picking the negative behaviors you did why no pick these: healthy relationships, community involvement, love and affection, personal responsibility. All of these are characteristics of gay men and women that I have known.

Let's cut to the chase, folks. These people are the enemy. No normal, rational person would ever want to live in America as they envision it. I hate to say that it's gotten to this, but it's us or them.

>>>We've gone from “How Much is That Puppy in the Window?” to BLEEP BLEEP BLEEP on the radio.

Another old Regressive, stuck in the past. Bad news Joe: its 2010. The good news is you can buy all of the Lawrence Welk shows on DVD. You can sit in your trailer and watch them all day long and pretend Eisenhower is still in the White House, women are still in the kitchen and the darkies still know their place. That is of course you are not too scared to use that new fangled technology called a DVD player.

On a slightly unrelated note: has anyone else noticed how the people that are so repulsed by the gays also never pass up an opportunity to talk or write about it in all the erotic details. You know Joe, there’s a word for people like you who think about gay sex all the time. They are called homosexuals.

I thought we humans obliterated all of you neanderthals a long time ago. My bad.

I certainly hope these aren't the same people who want less government.

What a sex act has to do with government is totally beyond me.

There is very definitely something wrong in Texas, and either there are no intelligent people there or they are afraid to stand up to the GOP and tell them to move on. One would think in 2010 that this type of rhetoric would be over and forgotten

If we had separation of church and state, then there would be no issue with churches that allow same-sex weddings to have them.

Let Texas secede. Declare war. Round up the idiots. Put them in Guantanamo.

Does this mean every woman who gives her husband a BJ will be arrested? How will cops arrest their own wives?

Two things to say whenever anyone insists that ones sexuality is a choice:

1- If people choice to be gay, then obviously people also choose NOT to be gay. Can you tell us about how you came to the decision to be heterosexual (assuming you really are heterosexual)?

2- If your position is gay people do not deserve any civil rights protections because they choose to be gay, as opposed to a black person or a woman who did not choose their race or gender, do you agree that people should not have any civil rights based on their religion? After all, religion is a choice, it’s a lifestyle. No one is born Christian or Hindu or Jew etc.

Hey Joe, just because YOU have a hard, hairy and smelly behind does NOT mean that EVERYBODY else does as well. A lot of people have much more class than you I'm sure.

Is the Texas GOP that full of closeted self-hating homosexuals that they find this really necessary? Of course, that question is rhetorical. The answer is a resounding YES!

I just read in Newsweek that Texas has more thrice-married people than any other state in the US.

I just read in Newsweek that Texas has more thrice-married people than any other state in the US.

are you suggesting that all behaviors that spread diseases be highly regulated by the government? That would mean every interaction between all individuals, animals, plant life, etc. would need to be monitored closely by the government and anyone who does anything that spreads any sort of disease be punished by law. . . so tell me, how long will snot-nosed toddlers get for all the disease they spread?

gotta disagree – Gays don't think about Gay sex as much as these so-called “family values” Right – wingnuts…..these people latch onto this Blatant Bigotry..coudl you even Imagine this being said about any other Group of American Citizens? Sounds like Nazi Propaganda about the Jews in early 1930's Germany.

It would be great to see another OKC in Dallas or Houston or San Antonio….

or, being predominantly catholic, they will do what all fundamentalists fear and become such a majority that we all answer to the pope (the fundies only consider the catholics as allies while they help them pass their orthodox laws onto non adherents but once they have their way they'll turn on the catholics too)

Your last comment you stole from Sam Kinison. The difference is that he was funny, you are just sad…

-Your first statement is too stupid to deserve a comment beyond that
-How is drug use that can spread disease regulated? Again, a stupid comment
-How is the separation of church and state the government “commandeering marriage as an institution”? Answer: It is not. This is another stupid comment
-You can still listen to old-time music on the right radio channels. And if you want “bleep bleep bleep” music, that is on another channel. The wonders of free choice!

Let's LOOK at the norms, see their etiology, and UPDATE as necessary. For example, going from IGNORANCE to ENLIGHTENMENT. THAT would be the LIBERAL way, and much preferable it is.

And lastly, you state “You just can't handle the facts” when not actually producing any facts. Overall, a FAIL.

Ah, but the GOP does not like science, education, reason, or admitting their latent homosexuality…

its ONLY the Gay people's lives they want to regulate.

Very few readers at this website would consider homosexuality a “lifestyle”. Just the few conservatives who read this site to make themselves feel superior to us “dumbass liberals”.

Gee, do you think the Log Cabin Repubs (Gay Repubs) will finally realize just how much hate the GOP has for them? They fool themselves about the GOP all the time.
When are they going to get it?

How this is going to be enforced?

Cameras in the bedroom? Weekly proctos for all?

You do know that sodomy is anal sex? Not oral sex…Feel free to look up big words you don’t know.

I totally agree. I am sick and tired of these traitors. Let them and all the old confederate states go. They refuse to move into the new century. So be it. Bye Bye.

Texas needs to walk their macho hombre talk and secede from the rest of the country.
They're not as brave as the un-American bullshit they spew and we don't need them anymore now than we did a year ago. They were originally part of Mexico and they need to be part of it again.

I sure hope for the good of the country, you don't vote repub for a very long time.

What “tears the fabric of society” is not treating everyone with respect and equality. It is as easy as that. Hate is always based on evil misinformation and ignorance. Live and let live. Enjoy the diversity out there. That is what makes life worth living. “All people are created equal members of one human family”! (official saying of Key West, FL)

As a life-long Texan, let me just say that Texas Republicans are morons. They love to vote for people that will turn around and screw them (along with the rest of us in the state). They love to talk about liberty, but they don't understand the meaining of the word. They rail against big government, but love the heavy hand of law enforcement. They think life is sacred, but drool over the death penalty (well, maybe not the Catholic Republicans). They love Jesus, but don't understand his compassion for the poor. They love Ayn Rand, because by and large they aren't deep thinkers (neither was Ayn Rand). They actually think the tax system causes corporations to not engage in capital investment – uh, sorry, but I have NEVER heard of a business that didn't invest in iteself because of taxes. They love the pursuit of profit, but don't care much for charities because they are too “liberal” and help The Other.

…more of the whacko mindset that that call themselves “normal”.

Actually, the Texas GOP Platform also calls for the repeal of no-fault divorce.

I stand corrected. Out of the closet, openly gay people that are not ashamed probably think about sex no more or no less than their hetro counterparts. It’s the repressed, closeted gays like Larry Craig and George Rekers (and Joe) that cant stop thinking about gay sex. In a way, I feel sorry for people like Joe. They spent the best years of their youth repressing who they were because of bigotry and shame. Now they find themselves in an age where their sexual identity is no longer something to hide. But alas, they are now old and undesirable to the objects of their affection. They are doomed to spend their days cruising restrooms and hiring hustlers off of Craigs List.

1: You spelled Republican wrong, which says a lot about your intelligence level right off the bat.

2: Don’t group all Republicans in with these Texas nuts.

These people don’t deserve to call themselves Americans, let alone Republicans. Using (and embarrassing) the entire party to further their insane cause just makes us all ashamed. These people sicken me.

Every time you people selfishly engage in oral sex, it makes the baby Jesus weep. Why do you people insist on making the baby Jesus weep?

There are scriptures that seem to promote the practice of gay sex. For instance, consider the words of Our Savior – “For thou art PETER, and upon this ROCK I shall place my THRONE… Ugh, ugh, ugh…”

SO THERE!!!

true but texas has more than its share

Once again, Republicans in Texas show their complete idiocy, bigotry and hypocracy. Show me a Texas politician who doesn't give blow jobs to oil company executives…..

As much as I want to get out of this state (I’m a teenager who was raised here, of course I’m going to want to leave the nest), I appreciate CT for what it is.

Still, I’m disgusted with some of the things happening in CT. Like the four orphans being forced to go to a foreign country because the government refuses to let their guardian (who came from that country) stay.

Sorry S&P but regressives like Joe would think that Eisenhower was far left liberal if he were alive today.

mexico will not want them who would

more like each others wives

nothing like wearing the good old righteous mantle of religious bigotry to sew hatred of others.

if people want to live in a country ruled by religion, please relocate out of the USA which values FREEDOM & EQUALITY and people staying the f**k out of others lives. thanks.

we all know anyhow that the christian god values the drunken and incestous, just read about Lot and his daughters. that's the guy their “god” saved.

sex has everything to do with government havent you read 1984? control of sex is how big brother controls people

Guys, this is nothing new. The Senator apologizes to BP, people get mad, so then they do what they do…make a spectacle of something else. “Look over there”

Clearly, this is a desperate grab for attention.

The world is moving on to bigger and better things. The GOP's whitewashed yearning for 1950s culture is becoming as quirky as the SCA's playskool yearning for medieval culture.

All of these religious kooks will have have to go to jail then because we all know conservative Christians SUCK!

Are you kidding me? You just sound stupid when you say that. I am a straight woman and mother and I would prefer my children be around some of the homosexuals that I know who are intelligent and kind than to be around a person such as yourself. Not only do you sound ignorant, but judgemental. Have you ever heard of “Judge not, lest ye be judged?”

like the israelis and palestinians they hate each other but they really are identical

per capita?

This platform would also repeal the 2007 texas law that allows police to issue a citation, as opposed to arrest, for marijuana possession.

Texas GOP == Taliban

Misleading comment, this is the platform of the Texas GOP, as voted on by its members, true knuckle-draggers all.

What next? Bring back slavery? They'd love to do that.

Have you read _Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology_?

Actually, it’s both, that’s what Lawrence in the Lawrence VS Texas case was busted for, oral sex.

Perhaps insulting the intelligence of others isn’t so smart in your case.

Do not know. It was highlighted in an article talking about the fact that marriage is less necessary today than it has been in the past. Have yet to finish the article.

What about when I engage in oral sex with the baby Jesus? Does he weep then?

“We believe “

Correct, but your delusion isn't rooted in fact.

So much for the right-wing wanting to keep the “big bad government” out of your house. … this is what happens when you don't live your life rooted in physical reality.. you become hypocritical on almost every topic out there. I hate regressives.

You can't possibly have taken from my comments that I have antipathy toward any person or group beyond the writers of this absurd and hateful plank on the part of the Texas GOP.

I suppose it really depends on how good you are at it. Now, if you're capable of unscrewing the head and working on the wires, as they say… Well, then it's quite possible.

If you included the undiscovered ones that would include every republicon.

If the extremist GOP were to re-criminalize sodomywe would have to arrest every Republican politician because we've been getting 'f+cked up the *ss' by their conservative principles for many years now.
i think the Texas Taliban would be more comfortable living in Afghanistan so they can be closer with their Middle Eastern Jihad brothers and sisters.

$1000 to anyone who can find any reference in the bible specifically forbidding oral sex.

Restore Texas to its rightful governance: The Republic of Mexico. The “browning” of the anglos might, in a few generations, restore some semblance of sanity.

being a member of the UN implies that we, indeed, are not the greatest and most important country in the world, that we do not make the rules, but we simply follow the ones set by others.

and i’m pretty sure the language thing should translate as such: “damned mexicans ought to learn our language if they want to attend our schools”…i don’t believe it’s saying we shouldn’t teach languages to students, but rather that normal education shouldn’t be taught in OTHER languages…

And let’s not forget those poor mules…

http://www.newshounds.us/2005/05/06/bizarre_sex_habits_of_the_extreme_rightwing.php#more

And let’s not forget those poor mules…

http://www.newshounds.us/2005/05/06/bizarre_sex_habits_of_the_extreme_rightwing.php#more

Become an Austinite. It's the the anti-Republican!

Keep it Weird, Yall….

Okay and let's criminalize fellatio (especially when performed on Oil and Gas Exec's) and that would put most of the GOP (and some Blue-Dogs) of Texas's, Louisiana's, Mississippi's, Alabama's “lawmakers”, in Congress, in prison….

Why doesn't this den of idiots just CECEDE and stop being a headache on the REST of the country? Maybe they could form a small countrylet with Arinazi and call themselves the United States of Idiocy.The Rad right christianistas are sickening and sick.

This platform states that the federal government should have no moral authority, yet supports the criminalization of sodomy and same-sex marriage. I just don't think they've quite thought this through… The only way to run such a diverse nation, where beliefs and backgrounds now range in such a wide spectrum, is to continue to support peace and encourage tolerance and coexistence. We have to agree to disagree on certain issues, so long as violence or harrassment is never an acceptable solution.

NEWSFLASH: Gay marriage will most likely actually REDUCE communicable “gay” diseases. If gays are allowed to marry, more of them may resolve to abstain from sex until marriage, or at least not run around as promiscuously as their stereotypes. Less promiscuous sex, less communicable diseases. Or how about allowing education on contraception? And they should change their quote from Not one of the state's 181 legislators is a Hispanic Republican.” to Not one of the state's 181 legislators is an intelligent Republican.” And trust me, I've met some intelligent Republicans who think these proposed laws are garbage.

Oh, and does this new law mean they're going to arrest every single teenage girl who performs fellatio on a classmate just to be more popular?

…scratch that, that's a good idea.

To Texan Log Cabin Republicans, denial is more than just a river in Africa (denial = the Nile). It's a way of life. An awful one, but…

I would agree that you are an anti-liberal half-wit. Texas is a great state, but most do not appreciate what is given to them. It seems to me that most people on this web site agree that by discriminating against LGBT, you are somehow not American or an ignorant American Redneck from Texas. However, if you do go to church and you do believe in the bible (word for word, not as you interprete it), then it is wrong for you to be a homosexual, be engage in such actions or to allow these actions to continue. They are not discriminating against LGBT, just the actions, as most American discriminate against criminal’s, drug user’s, and prostitue’s actions. Are these not people and do they not see themselves as being in a free country to do what makes them happy. So yes, I do think most people are nit-wits for screaming that they are being discriminated against because they are LBGT when they discriminate everday and are even more hateful when they do it, yet they claim tolerance and show none. As for the gays in the military, since men (women in their own areas) share common areas, showers, living quarters, etc… by having gays in the military you violate someones personal space when you allow a person who has feeling for the same sex to see a straight person naked during showers, changing clothes, etc… We do not let men and women take showers together, change clothing in front of each other, etc… because it is a serious violation of one’s personal space, so then it should also be a violation against men and women who are LGBT. Until men and women(not in a relationship with each other) shower together, live together and change in front of each other, then military men and women should feel safe that their personal space is protected. You would not want someone looking at you and invaded your personal space.

I would agree that you are an anti-liberal half-wit. Texas is a great state, but most do not appreciate what is given to them. It seems to me that most people on this web site agree that by discriminating against LGBT, you are somehow not American or an ignorant American Redneck from Texas. However, if you do go to church and you do believe in the bible (word for word, not as you interprete it), then it is wrong for you to be a homosexual, be engage in such actions or to allow these actions to continue. They are not discriminating against LGBT, just the actions, as most American discriminate against criminal’s, drug user’s, and prostitue’s actions. Are these not people and do they not see themselves as being in a free country to do what makes them happy. So yes, I do think most people are nit-wits for screaming that they are being discriminated against because they are LBGT when they discriminate everday and are even more hateful when they do it, yet they claim tolerance and show none. As for the gays in the military, since men (women in their own areas) share common areas, showers, living quarters, etc… by having gays in the military you violate someones personal space when you allow a person who has feeling for the same sex to see a straight person naked during showers, changing clothes, etc… We do not let men and women take showers together, change clothing in front of each other, etc… because it is a serious violation of one’s personal space, so then it should also be a violation against men and women who are LGBT. Until men and women(not in a relationship with each other) shower together, live together and change in front of each other, then military men and women should feel safe that their personal space is protected. You would not want someone looking at you and invaded your personal space.

You're irony-impaired, evidently …

sew =/= sow

I hear the Texas GOP wants to test all passengers from states allowing medical marijuana that transiting through Dallas and Houston and arrest all those who have used pot in the last 30 days.

*Facepalm*
It's like the statesmen are trying to be stereotypical.

Anyway, I can understand why the platform is against gays, sexual freedom and evolution because they are things that fundamental christians have always opposed. But why are they against teaching languages and the UN?

*Facepalm*
It's like the statesmen are trying to be stereotypical.

Anyway, I can understand why the platform is against gays, sexual freedom and evolution because they are things that fundamental christians have always opposed. But why are they against teaching languages and the UN?

*Facepalm*
It's like the statesmen are trying to be stereotypical.

Anyway, I can understand why the platform is against gays, sexual freedom and evolution because they are things that fundamental christians have always opposed. But why are they against teaching languages and the UN?

The last gasp of Texas' Republican freak show.

True, Regressives would not support someone like Eisenhower today. But somehow I think they would look past all that once they see the sweaty, jowly face of Tricky Dick standing alongside Ike.

No it is not an oxymoron, every republicon is gay. Most are just in the closet.

Hmmph! they didn't go far enough. What they need to add to their platform:

§ Wimmin are required to keep their hair at least 12″ long, to allow easy access and to facilite their men being able to drag them back to the double-wide.

§ Any Republican politician – at the local, state or national level – having been discovered performing or receiving sodomite attention, shall be forgiven, because “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”.

Hmmph! they didn't go far enough. What they need to add to their platform:

§ Wimmin are required to keep their hair at least 12″ long, to allow easy access and to facilite their men being able to drag them back to the double-wide.

§ Any Republican politician – at the local, state or national level – having been discovered performing or receiving sodomite attention, shall be forgiven, because “all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God”.

Serious repercussions for texass. They have a lot of resources but like the rest of the South are too lazy and stupid to get any benefit from them.

If any of you liberal half-wits would read, or could read, the full document you would agree with 99% of it. No wait, scratch that. It is pro-American, pro-constitution, pro-military, and pro-individual rights and responsibilty. You would hate all of it.

You've GOT to be kidding me.
Can we somehow outlaw fat, greedy white guys in government ?

thats just human nature
we all need someone to blame

How is the criminalization of private sex acts 'pro-individual rights'? For that matter how is their stance on abortion anything like being for individual rights? They also oppose gestational contracts. They want to do away with all forms of “porn”, too bad they can't define it. They also want to do away with social security. As for being 'pro-constitution' they call several times for the legislative branch to impede and block the judicial….how is that 'pro-constitution'? They also call for the constitution to never be modified, which is cute since they were just calling last year for an amendment. You're just wrong. Try reading it yourself and see how much you agree with. Truly it's full of BS. It's inseprable from the directives of middle eastern theocracies.

Babawonga, you're either (1) insane, (2) illiterate, (3) a moron, or (4) employing such dry humor as to be imperceptible.
I have now read the document, instantly available in PDF form from the article. I do not agree with 99% of it. Did you read this travesty? Frankly I'm 100% certain that at least SOME of those who have signed onto this doggie-doo is a closet pole smoker. Think of pre- and current right-wingers like George Rekers, Ted Haggard, Joey DiFatta, Larry Craig, etc.

As a Republican, I find the actions of the TX GOP to be an embarrassment. You redneck idiots need to grow up.

Oh, what pie-in-the-sky nonsense. The time has come to call Republicans out for being the pieces of shit they are. And I ESPECIALLY mean the spineless goons who say, “well, I just agree with them on fiscal issues,” or “abortion is my only issue.” Sorry, no good. If you find yourself voting with these hate-filled, Scripture-spewing apes and don’t denounce them as moronic, evil filth, you’re no better. And I wish there’d come a day- there won’t- when I never, ever had to hear another word about fucking religion, when we’re discussing the society at large, or our nation that belongs to all of us. But honestly.. I truly believe that religion will ultimately be the downfall of America anyway.

What is this the 18th century? One that will never fly, two the GOP just shot themselves in the foot, talk about a way to mobilize the Latino vote … Nice work idiots. Grand Old Party, bye bye.

I hear the FEMA camps are almost ready.

Reno's economy will really pick up….

Also, what about all the STDs that take place between heterosexuals – hello??? It's not who's having sex, it's unsafe sex in general. It's not like homosexuals are full of STDs just waiting to spread them around – it's an STD, not HomoSTD!!!

so am i as a married straight female living in texas breaking the law because i like to engage in anal sex with my husband???? the TX GOP makes me embarrassed to be a Texan. If straight people can marry then why cant gay people, church and state are suppose to be separate, clearly they are not.

And sao we continue our road to fascism !!!!

And sao we continue our road to fascism !!!!

And sao we continue our road to fascism !!!!

Texas republicans make me ashamed to be born and raised in Texas. Dont steak for Texas your homophobic beasts. I am a proud GAY Texan.

wtf!!!!! first off I would not put gay marriage in the same boat as criminals, i mean that idiotic. Also as a straight female me and my husband would not be able to have anal or oral, come on now this is the 20th century. what I do in my own home is not the governments business . i really doubt this will pass but if it does I'm officially now longer will call myself a Texan and get the hell out of this state. We have the worst freaking laws here.

Poor Republicons don't get any oral sex!

This makes me ashamed to be a Texan. This is nothing but a disgusting display of discrimination.

Republicans are for small government!

Small enough to fit neatly into your personal life.

This is the mindset of the typical Republican. You say you are pro-individual rights and you support this????

guess all those idiot Texan republicans are gunna give up BJ's… sucks to be them… LOL

guess all those idiot Texan republicans are gunna give up BJ's… sucks to be them… LOL

guess all those idiot Texan republicans are gunna give up BJ's… sucks to be them… LOL

guess all those idiot Texan republicans are gunna give up BJ's… sucks to be them… LOL

guess all those idiot Texan republicans are gunna give up BJ's… sucks to be them… LOL

guess all those idiot Texan republicans are gunna give up BJ's… sucks to be them… LOL

i guess it's a good thing my friends both adopted their foster son. sounds like if something happened to one of them, the other one wouldn't get their child they've raised for 4 years.

this state's gone insane. and it's embarrassing. i think with the exception of these mostly old, white men, nobody gives a crap about the whole gay issue anymore.

i guess it's a good thing my friends both adopted their foster son. sounds like if something happened to one of them, the other one wouldn't get their child they've raised for 4 years.

this state's gone insane. and it's embarrassing. i think with the exception of these mostly old, white men, nobody gives a crap about the whole gay issue anymore.

i guess it's a good thing my friends both adopted their foster son. sounds like if something happened to one of them, the other one wouldn't get their child they've raised for 4 years.

this state's gone insane. and it's embarrassing. i think with the exception of these mostly old, white men, nobody gives a crap about the whole gay issue anymore.

i guess it's a good thing my friends both adopted their foster son. sounds like if something happened to one of them, the other one wouldn't get their child they've raised for 4 years.

this state's gone insane. and it's embarrassing. i think with the exception of these mostly old, white men, nobody gives a crap about the whole gay issue anymore.

i guess it's a good thing my friends both adopted their foster son. sounds like if something happened to one of them, the other one wouldn't get their child they've raised for 4 years.

this state's gone insane. and it's embarrassing. i think with the exception of these mostly old, white men, nobody gives a crap about the whole gay issue anymore.

i guess it's a good thing my friends both adopted their foster son. sounds like if something happened to one of them, the other one wouldn't get their child they've raised for 4 years.

this state's gone insane. and it's embarrassing. i think with the exception of these mostly old, white men, nobody gives a crap about the whole gay issue anymore.

so much to write but it would be wasted. this is stupid and backwards.

This is just moronic. And people wonder why Texans are looked at as green aliens from outer space. Being conservative is one thing. I will respect your view to not agree with gay marriage. Heck, you don't have to legalize gay marriage, but to make it a felony? Seriously, why don't they focus on the rampant drug use or ever rising true crimes? Or the lackluster education the children are getting?

“18th Century are you kidding me” I think Gepoge Washington would slap your face. Anal sex for all FUCK YEAH!

As a Canadian, I can't believe this crap. What the hell is going on with you guys? I'm reading the comments, and I know that many, many Texans disagree with these proposed hate laws, but still- how do they even get proposed? Sometimes I look at you and I'm like, wow, they have come a long way. It's not so crazy, people bad mouth you guys for no reason, but daaayyum, come on yall. Get your shit together and vote some sense into the GOP.

I think it's time that we looked on the bright side here. I certainly think that the Democrats are going to point towards Texas during the upcoming elections and the future presidential elections. If Richard Steele had a brain in his head he would be down there with his boots at their throats. Texas is standing out like a big red blinking light, wait that means prostitution doesn't it? Just point to Texas and ask the people is this what you want for your children and for your life. This is what the Republicans want to do to you.

And I wonder why the tea party isn't up in arms over this? This is a large sense of government intrusion into your life. Do they approve of this?

why is there not a single Republican party party member standing up and blasting this right out of the Gulf?

Why did we fight Mexico to get Texas? It is time to give Texas back to Mexico.

starvapor don't lump all us Texans in together. GOP bs is in EVERY state

as a liberal half-wit, the only part i agree with is the part of illegal immigration (which is already illegal). everything else moves our country backwards and is no way “pro-American”

I wish I knew – people like this are unfortunately deeply ensnared in our country's past and present. We are supposed to be about freedom and democracy yet so many dumbheads spend many hours actively trying to put others down. It is positively senseless. I mean there is just no logical way to defend them, yet there they are.

I can't give them that much – They _do_ have to legalize gay marriage. I insist that I be allowed to marry whoever the heck I want. I like the slogan “Don't like gay marriage? Then don't get one!”

that last comment is absolutley false Ohio Representative Steve Austria is a hispanic Republican

GAY PRIDE HOUSTON 2010…THIS WEEKEND! WOOOOO HOOOOO!

And this crazy bullshit is why the WORLD thinks the United States is insane.
Unfortunately, this is the crazy bullshit that the rest of the world hears… Way to perpetuate a horrible sterotype. Makes me sick.

Not impressed.

Get a clue, honey! It clearly states “Not one of THE STATE'S 181 legislators is a Hispanic Republican.” As in THE STATE of Texas, not the state of Ohio.

Get a clue, honey! It clearly states “Not one of THE STATE'S 181 legislators is a Hispanic Republican.” As in THE STATE of Texas, not the state of Ohio.

Get a clue, honey! It clearly states “Not one of THE STATE'S 181 legislators is a Hispanic Republican.” As in THE STATE of Texas, not the state of Ohio.

Get a clue, honey! It clearly states “Not one of THE STATE'S 181 legislators is a Hispanic Republican.” As in THE STATE of Texas, not the state of Ohio.

Get a clue, honey! It clearly states “Not one of THE STATE'S 181 legislators is a Hispanic Republican.” As in THE STATE of Texas, not the state of Ohio.

The GOP needs to be arrested for promoting violence against homosexuals in the name of god in their little statement there. That shit at lest should make them liable for a class-action suite from fathers and mothers who lost their sons and daughters to this very kind of violence.

The GOP needs to be arrested for promoting violence against homosexuals in the name of god in their little statement there. That shit at lest should make them liable for a class-action suite from fathers and mothers who lost their sons and daughters to this very kind of violence.

The GOP needs to be arrested for promoting violence against homosexuals in the name of god in their little statement there. That shit at lest should make them liable for a class-action suite from fathers and mothers who lost their sons and daughters to this very kind of violence.

The GOP needs to be arrested for promoting violence against homosexuals in the name of god in their little statement there. That shit at lest should make them liable for a class-action suite from fathers and mothers who lost their sons and daughters to this very kind of violence.

The last comment says that, “Not one of THE STATE's 181 legislators is a Hispanic Republican.”

That was referring to the state of Texas. Not ohio. Critical reading skills for the win.

The last comment says that, “Not one of THE STATE's 181 legislators is a Hispanic Republican.”

That was referring to the state of Texas. Not ohio. Critical reading skills for the win.

The last comment says that, “Not one of THE STATE's 181 legislators is a Hispanic Republican.”

That was referring to the state of Texas. Not ohio. Critical reading skills for the win.

what exactly does “pro-American” mean? Im an American. I've lived here all my life, as have my parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and great-great grandparents before me. And I think that laws restricting individual rights is just about the most un-American thing you can do. You do remember from some long ago grade school lesson that the basic tenants of American belief, the ones we started a revolution over, are “Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” That “all men are created equal.” How is criminalizing what two people do in the privacy of their own bedrooms, or making it illegal for them to care and provide for their children pro-individual rights and responsibiltiy. And, perhaps from the same grade-school lesson, that the very first amendment to your beloved Constitution (actually the Bill of Rights–and, if you can cite any portion of it other than the 2nd amendment and your vague notion that there is something called “freedom of speech,” which apparently only applies if you agree with the speech involved, I will eat my own foot) provides for separation of church and state. How can it be “pro-Constitution” to essentially legislate church dogma? I've got no problem with religion, but it is amzing to me that Republicans are so quick to incorporate the Bible into the Constitution (with awesome catch phrases like pro-Family, pro-America, and pro-Values as if people who do not go to church every week and who do not live in families with a mother, father, 2.5 kids and a dog somehow hate America), when it is expressly forbidden, but completely flip out at the notion that the Constitution might create an expectation of privacy or, I dont know, the right for all Americans to live their lives and love who they want. Also, how did the military get involved here? Do gay folks and/or immigrants somehow affect our military strength? Seems to me that our awesome military is kicking some ass (whether or not they should be there is a different question). What about gay immigrants! Oh my God! Better keep them out or we'll be taken over by the Chinese because our military will completely cease to operate. But I suppose I'm jus an illiterate, anti-American liberal half-wit.

A texas state rep from Ohio?

is there such a thing as a Hispanic Republican???

I am a Texas Republican. Personally and religiously I support traditional marriage for many reasons. However, I adamantly disagree with government telling me what I can and cannot do in the bedroom. Government should be small; the power of the people to enjoy life and pursue happiness should far surpass the power of the government. The next thing you know they will start trying to outlaw premarital relations, and then it will be against the law to go to second base, and so on and so on. How crazy can lawmakers get?

It's Texas what do you expect this is the same state who wants to rewrite history books for the united states because they believe the information should be stressing the superiority of American capitalism, questioning the Founding Fathers’ commitment to a purely secular government and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light.
I'm all for gay marrage but could you expect anything less from a state who produced George Bush and this text book bull shit? I think they are out of line and need to be brought into the twenty first century, or just rid them from the U.S

The comment says that none of 181 TEXAS legislators is a Hispanic American…always good to throw in a little Ohio trivia, however. ;-)

The comment says that none of 181 TEXAS legislators is a Hispanic American…always good to throw in a little Ohio trivia, however. ;-)

I am a Hispanic Republican. There are many.

I do want to say that the entirety of America is not like this. I live in the humble state of CT and we have legalized gay marriage (so sodomy laws would seem particularly ridiculous) and are fairly liberal, even compared to our neighboring state, New York. This entire article disgusts me. What's up with the Southwest? Arizona with its immigration laws, now this…

The comment refers to Texas' 181 representatives – not Congressmembers or reps in other states.

What a load of ignorance…

I agree with you but right now, that's not the legal fight to be had in Texas. Other states are now considering gay marriage and the fight against Proposition 8 may be brought to the Supreme Court. Duking it out in Texas individually just doesn't seem like a good idea right now.

I don't care about the laws against mexicans, fuck mexicans! But this bullshit against buttfucking and blowjobs is fucking outrageous! Straight like that doing this stuff too you fucking retards!

gay pride houston this weekend!!!! san antonios was last weekend, and dallas is coming(no pun),lol!! and splash in s padre, and jus about every girl i know here in texas is bi, and the guys too… and that is no joke!! IM A GAY TEXAN, AND I HAVE A TON OF GAYY FRIENDS!! these republican who claim to represent us, are a joke and wont be around much longer!! TEXAS GAY PRIDE!! WOO HOO IS RIGHT!!

But this bullshit against buttfucking and blowjobs is fucking outrageous! Straights like doing this stuff too you fucking retards!

This is the same organization that gave you racist bumper stickers and tee shirts at their big convention in 2008, nice people aren't they? What you are seeing is the TRUE face of the GOPs, wait until they find a way to go after YOU for something they decide is sin.

Those damn Mexicans are ruining their great state! That's why.

Ugh, this entire thing is a travesty.

Um, disgusting.
The founding fathers wanted religion and government as far away as possible from each other. Why do conservatives consistently LIE about that?! I'm pretty sure lying is against the doctrine of the religion they supposedly love so much…

I don't think these guys have thought this through! Sodomy also means anal and/or oral sex with a member of the oposite sex! No more birthday BJ's in Texas!

I am a Texan and I most certainly do not share these beliefs at all! In fact, I don't believe anyone in my immediate surroundings does. It is a travesty that stereotypes abound are so mellifluously perpetuated so much so that just because someone is from Texas or California or is Hispanic or Caucasian it most definitely MUST preclude certain traits. It is categorically true that a very few number of nitwits and zealots send a very false image of American society to the rest of the world. What I find most frightening about this article is this statement from the Texas GOP “opus”, “We oppose any criminal or civil penalties against those who oppose homosexuality out of faith, conviction, or belief in traditional values.” I do believe that may be interpreted to mean it is within a GOPs right to “gay bash” or take any action “criminal” or otherwise to uphold their faith. I find that terrifying.

Pathetic.

I agree! Its so rewarding to be a texan…no one sings songs and reps their country or state like texans do…but this…im not proud of! I like the comment made by jasonM..68, why DID we fight Mexico for Texas if we are just giving it right back to them? Why cant out government worry about that problem first rather than what people are doing romantically (a positive thing) behind closed doors?! Get these lousy drunk criminals out of Texas, stop worrying about the LGBT community! No matter what laws you enforce people are going to do what they want, especially in the bedroom…this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! You should be ashamed in your self and the reps of Texas Gov Perry! YES…lets minimize the millions we receive to help our future generations be better than the old farts that yall are now, because yall know whats best for Texas…stfu!! Im seriously moving to canada when I have the ability to…free healthcare for all, less than a 10% crime throughout the country, and no dumbass reps coming up with the most insane un-important bologne they can think of to better themselves (not the people)! How to explain to an ignorant person that they are in fact ignorant??!! Its like trying to tell a crazy person they are crazy…urgh!

I agree! Its so rewarding to be a texan…no one sings songs and reps their country or state like texans do…but this…im not proud of! I like the comment made by jasonM..68, why DID we fight Mexico for Texas if we are just giving it right back to them? Why cant out government worry about that problem first rather than what people are doing romantically (a positive thing) behind closed doors?! Get these lousy drunk criminals out of Texas, stop worrying about the LGBT community! No matter what laws you enforce people are going to do what they want, especially in the bedroom…this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! You should be ashamed in your self and the reps of Texas Gov Perry! YES…lets minimize the millions we receive to help our future generations be better than the old farts that yall are now, because yall know whats best for Texas…stfu!! Im seriously moving to canada when I have the ability to…free healthcare for all, less than a 10% crime throughout the country, and no dumbass reps coming up with the most insane un-important bologne they can think of to better themselves (not the people)! How to explain to an ignorant person that they are in fact ignorant??!! Its like trying to tell a crazy person they are crazy…urgh!

I agree! Its so rewarding to be a texan…no one sings songs and reps their country or state like texans do…but this…im not proud of! I like the comment made by jasonM..68, why DID we fight Mexico for Texas if we are just giving it right back to them? Why cant out government worry about that problem first rather than what people are doing romantically (a positive thing) behind closed doors?! Get these lousy drunk criminals out of Texas, stop worrying about the LGBT community! No matter what laws you enforce people are going to do what they want, especially in the bedroom…this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! You should be ashamed in your self and the reps of Texas Gov Perry! YES…lets minimize the millions we receive to help our future generations be better than the old farts that yall are now, because yall know whats best for Texas…stfu!! Im seriously moving to canada when I have the ability to…free healthcare for all, less than a 10% crime throughout the country, and no dumbass reps coming up with the most insane un-important bologne they can think of to better themselves (not the people)! How to explain to an ignorant person that they are in fact ignorant??!! Its like trying to tell a crazy person they are crazy…urgh!

I agree! Its so rewarding to be a texan…no one sings songs and reps their country or state like texans do…but this…im not proud of! I like the comment made by jasonM..68, why DID we fight Mexico for Texas if we are just giving it right back to them? Why cant out government worry about that problem first rather than what people are doing romantically (a positive thing) behind closed doors?! Get these lousy drunk criminals out of Texas, stop worrying about the LGBT community! No matter what laws you enforce people are going to do what they want, especially in the bedroom…this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! You should be ashamed in your self and the reps of Texas Gov Perry! YES…lets minimize the millions we receive to help our future generations be better than the old farts that yall are now, because yall know whats best for Texas…stfu!! Im seriously moving to canada when I have the ability to…free healthcare for all, less than a 10% crime throughout the country, and no dumbass reps coming up with the most insane un-important bologne they can think of to better themselves (not the people)! How to explain to an ignorant person that they are in fact ignorant??!! Its like trying to tell a crazy person they are crazy…urgh!

I agree! Its so rewarding to be a texan…no one sings songs and reps their country or state like texans do…but this…im not proud of! I like the comment made by jasonM..68, why DID we fight Mexico for Texas if we are just giving it right back to them? Why cant out government worry about that problem first rather than what people are doing romantically (a positive thing) behind closed doors?! Get these lousy drunk criminals out of Texas, stop worrying about the LGBT community! No matter what laws you enforce people are going to do what they want, especially in the bedroom…this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! You should be ashamed in your self and the reps of Texas Gov Perry! YES…lets minimize the millions we receive to help our future generations be better than the old farts that yall are now, because yall know whats best for Texas…stfu!! Im seriously moving to canada when I have the ability to…free healthcare for all, less than a 10% crime throughout the country, and no dumbass reps coming up with the most insane un-important bologne they can think of to better themselves (not the people)! How to explain to an ignorant person that they are in fact ignorant??!! Its like trying to tell a crazy person they are crazy…urgh!

I agree! Its so rewarding to be a texan…no one sings songs and reps their country or state like texans do…but this…im not proud of! I like the comment made by jasonM..68, why DID we fight Mexico for Texas if we are just giving it right back to them? Why cant out government worry about that problem first rather than what people are doing romantically (a positive thing) behind closed doors?! Get these lousy drunk criminals out of Texas, stop worrying about the LGBT community! No matter what laws you enforce people are going to do what they want, especially in the bedroom…this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! You should be ashamed in your self and the reps of Texas Gov Perry! YES…lets minimize the millions we receive to help our future generations be better than the old farts that yall are now, because yall know whats best for Texas…stfu!! Im seriously moving to canada when I have the ability to…free healthcare for all, less than a 10% crime throughout the country, and no dumbass reps coming up with the most insane un-important bologne they can think of to better themselves (not the people)! How to explain to an ignorant person that they are in fact ignorant??!! Its like trying to tell a crazy person they are crazy…urgh!

I agree! Its so rewarding to be a texan…no one sings songs and reps their country or state like texans do…but this…im not proud of! I like the comment made by jasonM..68, why DID we fight Mexico for Texas if we are just giving it right back to them? Why cant out government worry about that problem first rather than what people are doing romantically (a positive thing) behind closed doors?! Get these lousy drunk criminals out of Texas, stop worrying about the LGBT community! No matter what laws you enforce people are going to do what they want, especially in the bedroom…this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! You should be ashamed in your self and the reps of Texas Gov Perry! YES…lets minimize the millions we receive to help our future generations be better than the old farts that yall are now, because yall know whats best for Texas…stfu!! Im seriously moving to canada when I have the ability to…free healthcare for all, less than a 10% crime throughout the country, and no dumbass reps coming up with the most insane un-important bologne they can think of to better themselves (not the people)! How to explain to an ignorant person that they are in fact ignorant??!! Its like trying to tell a crazy person they are crazy…urgh!

I agree! Its so rewarding to be a texan…no one sings songs and reps their country or state like texans do…but this…im not proud of! I like the comment made by jasonM..68, why DID we fight Mexico for Texas if we are just giving it right back to them? Why cant out government worry about that problem first rather than what people are doing romantically (a positive thing) behind closed doors?! Get these lousy drunk criminals out of Texas, stop worrying about the LGBT community! No matter what laws you enforce people are going to do what they want, especially in the bedroom…this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! You should be ashamed in your self and the reps of Texas Gov Perry! YES…lets minimize the millions we receive to help our future generations be better than the old farts that yall are now, because yall know whats best for Texas…stfu!! Im seriously moving to canada when I have the ability to…free healthcare for all, less than a 10% crime throughout the country, and no dumbass reps coming up with the most insane un-important bologne they can think of to better themselves (not the people)! How to explain to an ignorant person that they are in fact ignorant??!! Its like trying to tell a crazy person they are crazy…urgh!

I agree! Its so rewarding to be a texan…no one sings songs and reps their country or state like texans do…but this…im not proud of! I like the comment made by jasonM..68, why DID we fight Mexico for Texas if we are just giving it right back to them? Why cant out government worry about that problem first rather than what people are doing romantically (a positive thing) behind closed doors?! Get these lousy drunk criminals out of Texas, stop worrying about the LGBT community! No matter what laws you enforce people are going to do what they want, especially in the bedroom…this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! You should be ashamed in your self and the reps of Texas Gov Perry! YES…lets minimize the millions we receive to help our future generations be better than the old farts that yall are now, because yall know whats best for Texas…stfu!! Im seriously moving to canada when I have the ability to…free healthcare for all, less than a 10% crime throughout the country, and no dumbass reps coming up with the most insane un-important bologne they can think of to better themselves (not the people)! How to explain to an ignorant person that they are in fact ignorant??!! Its like trying to tell a crazy person they are crazy…urgh!

I agree! Its so rewarding to be a texan…no one sings songs and reps their country or state like texans do…but this…im not proud of! I like the comment made by jasonM..68, why DID we fight Mexico for Texas if we are just giving it right back to them? Why cant out government worry about that problem first rather than what people are doing romantically (a positive thing) behind closed doors?! Get these lousy drunk criminals out of Texas, stop worrying about the LGBT community! No matter what laws you enforce people are going to do what they want, especially in the bedroom…this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! You should be ashamed in your self and the reps of Texas Gov Perry! YES…lets minimize the millions we receive to help our future generations be better than the old farts that yall are now, because yall know whats best for Texas…stfu!! Im seriously moving to canada when I have the ability to…free healthcare for all, less than a 10% crime throughout the country, and no dumbass reps coming up with the most insane un-important bologne they can think of to better themselves (not the people)! How to explain to an ignorant person that they are in fact ignorant??!! Its like trying to tell a crazy person they are crazy…urgh!

I agree! Its so rewarding to be a texan…no one sings songs and reps their country or state like texans do…but this…im not proud of! I like the comment made by jasonM..68, why DID we fight Mexico for Texas if we are just giving it right back to them? Why cant out government worry about that problem first rather than what people are doing romantically (a positive thing) behind closed doors?! Get these lousy drunk criminals out of Texas, stop worrying about the LGBT community! No matter what laws you enforce people are going to do what they want, especially in the bedroom…this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! You should be ashamed in your self and the reps of Texas Gov Perry! YES…lets minimize the millions we receive to help our future generations be better than the old farts that yall are now, because yall know whats best for Texas…stfu!! Im seriously moving to canada when I have the ability to…free healthcare for all, less than a 10% crime throughout the country, and no dumbass reps coming up with the most insane un-important bologne they can think of to better themselves (not the people)! How to explain to an ignorant person that they are in fact ignorant??!! Its like trying to tell a crazy person they are crazy…urgh!

I agree! Its so rewarding to be a texan…no one sings songs and reps their country or state like texans do…but this…im not proud of! I like the comment made by jasonM..68, why DID we fight Mexico for Texas if we are just giving it right back to them? Why cant out government worry about that problem first rather than what people are doing romantically (a positive thing) behind closed doors?! Get these lousy drunk criminals out of Texas, stop worrying about the LGBT community! No matter what laws you enforce people are going to do what they want, especially in the bedroom…this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! You should be ashamed in your self and the reps of Texas Gov Perry! YES…lets minimize the millions we receive to help our future generations be better than the old farts that yall are now, because yall know whats best for Texas…stfu!! Im seriously moving to canada when I have the ability to…free healthcare for all, less than a 10% crime throughout the country, and no dumbass reps coming up with the most insane un-important bologne they can think of to better themselves (not the people)! How to explain to an ignorant person that they are in fact ignorant??!! Its like trying to tell a crazy person they are crazy…urgh!

I agree! Its so rewarding to be a texan…no one sings songs and reps their country or state like texans do…but this…im not proud of! I like the comment made by jasonM..68, why DID we fight Mexico for Texas if we are just giving it right back to them? Why cant out government worry about that problem first rather than what people are doing romantically (a positive thing) behind closed doors?! Get these lousy drunk criminals out of Texas, stop worrying about the LGBT community! No matter what laws you enforce people are going to do what they want, especially in the bedroom…this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! You should be ashamed in your self and the reps of Texas Gov Perry! YES…lets minimize the millions we receive to help our future generations be better than the old farts that yall are now, because yall know whats best for Texas…stfu!! Im seriously moving to canada when I have the ability to…free healthcare for all, less than a 10% crime throughout the country, and no dumbass reps coming up with the most insane un-important bologne they can think of to better themselves (not the people)! How to explain to an ignorant person that they are in fact ignorant??!! Its like trying to tell a crazy person they are crazy…urgh!

I agree! Its so rewarding to be a texan…no one sings songs and reps their country or state like texans do…but this…im not proud of! I like the comment made by jasonM..68, why DID we fight Mexico for Texas if we are just giving it right back to them? Why cant out government worry about that problem first rather than what people are doing romantically (a positive thing) behind closed doors?! Get these lousy drunk criminals out of Texas, stop worrying about the LGBT community! No matter what laws you enforce people are going to do what they want, especially in the bedroom…this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! You should be ashamed in your self and the reps of Texas Gov Perry! YES…lets minimize the millions we receive to help our future generations be better than the old farts that yall are now, because yall know whats best for Texas…stfu!! Im seriously moving to canada when I have the ability to…free healthcare for all, less than a 10% crime throughout the country, and no dumbass reps coming up with the most insane un-important bologne they can think of to better themselves (not the people)! How to explain to an ignorant person that they are in fact ignorant??!! Its like trying to tell a crazy person they are crazy…urgh!

I agree! Its so rewarding to be a texan…no one sings songs and reps their country or state like texans do…but this…im not proud of! I like the comment made by jasonM..68, why DID we fight Mexico for Texas if we are just giving it right back to them? Why cant out government worry about that problem first rather than what people are doing romantically (a positive thing) behind closed doors?! Get these lousy drunk criminals out of Texas, stop worrying about the LGBT community! No matter what laws you enforce people are going to do what they want, especially in the bedroom…this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! You should be ashamed in your self and the reps of Texas Gov Perry! YES…lets minimize the millions we receive to help our future generations be better than the old farts that yall are now, because yall know whats best for Texas…stfu!! Im seriously moving to canada when I have the ability to…free healthcare for all, less than a 10% crime throughout the country, and no dumbass reps coming up with the most insane un-important bologne they can think of to better themselves (not the people)! How to explain to an ignorant person that they are in fact ignorant??!! Its like trying to tell a crazy person they are crazy…urgh!

I agree! Its so rewarding to be a texan…no one sings songs and reps their country or state like texans do…but this…im not proud of! I like the comment made by jasonM..68, why DID we fight Mexico for Texas if we are just giving it right back to them? Why cant out government worry about that problem first rather than what people are doing romantically (a positive thing) behind closed doors?! Get these lousy drunk criminals out of Texas, stop worrying about the LGBT community! No matter what laws you enforce people are going to do what they want, especially in the bedroom…this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! You should be ashamed in your self and the reps of Texas Gov Perry! YES…lets minimize the millions we receive to help our future generations be better than the old farts that yall are now, because yall know whats best for Texas…stfu!! Im seriously moving to canada when I have the ability to…free healthcare for all, less than a 10% crime throughout the country, and no dumbass reps coming up with the most insane un-important bologne they can think of to better themselves (not the people)! How to explain to an ignorant person that they are in fact ignorant??!! Its like trying to tell a crazy person they are crazy…urgh!

I agree! Its so rewarding to be a texan…no one sings songs and reps their country or state like texans do…but this…im not proud of! I like the comment made by jasonM..68, why DID we fight Mexico for Texas if we are just giving it right back to them? Why cant out government worry about that problem first rather than what people are doing romantically (a positive thing) behind closed doors?! Get these lousy drunk criminals out of Texas, stop worrying about the LGBT community! No matter what laws you enforce people are going to do what they want, especially in the bedroom…this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! You should be ashamed in your self and the reps of Texas Gov Perry! YES…lets minimize the millions we receive to help our future generations be better than the old farts that yall are now, because yall know whats best for Texas…stfu!! Im seriously moving to canada when I have the ability to…free healthcare for all, less than a 10% crime throughout the country, and no dumbass reps coming up with the most insane un-important bologne they can think of to better themselves (not the people)! How to explain to an ignorant person that they are in fact ignorant??!! Its like trying to tell a crazy person they are crazy…urgh!

I agree! Its so rewarding to be a texan…no one sings songs and reps their country or state like texans do…but this…im not proud of! I like the comment made by jasonM..68, why DID we fight Mexico for Texas if we are just giving it right back to them? Why cant out government worry about that problem first rather than what people are doing romantically (a positive thing) behind closed doors?! Get these lousy drunk criminals out of Texas, stop worrying about the LGBT community! No matter what laws you enforce people are going to do what they want, especially in the bedroom…this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard! You should be ashamed in your self and the reps of Texas Gov Perry! YES…lets minimize the millions we receive to help our future generations be better than the old farts that yall are now, because yall know whats best for Texas…stfu!! Im seriously moving to canada when I have the ability to…free healthcare for all, less than a 10% crime throughout the country, and no dumbass reps coming up with the most insane un-important bologne they can think of to better themselves (not the people)! How to explain to an ignorant person that they are in fact ignorant??!! Its like trying to tell a crazy person they are crazy…urgh!

I live and Texas and love in Texas, but don't really love Texas any more because they want to throw me in jail for being born who I am. The vitriole being spewed in this “platform” is purely political pandering to the, for lack of a better term and using current vernacular, tea-baggers. This same article on Yahoo would generate humpty-million thumbs up and hell yeahs. Maybe I should read my news on the Raw Story – you posters don't rile me up. Yes Texas seems to be backwards. Some of the most outspoken here against immigration are children of immigrants themselves. They got here first and they want it all. I attribute that to the ignorance of an abundance of Texas citizens. They aren't stupid, necessarily. Just ignorant. They spend too much time watching television, and listening to talk radio. And because of their ignorance, they will push this platform in church, and on the street, and on the radio. And because of their ignorance, the candidates who state they adhere to this platform will be elected. This is the Texas way. Not the right way, not the intelligent way, but the Texas way. And the Log Cabin Republicans (are they still around) will vote for them. And the African American and Hispanic Republicans. Because you see, they think that because they are Republicans, they will reap the benefits of being Republican. They still haven't figured out that it is not who you know, but who you blow, in Texas politics. And for that, they will go to jail with me, because sodomy is against the law. My q

How is denying consenting adults their choice in sex life or marriage “pro-individual rights”?

Go Texas!!!

Heck, they probably want to stone them. Let's just make the Old Testament the law of the land already, then maybe we can get rid of these hypocrites with their own Bible!

Texas, where Bigotry is Law.

Excuse you idiot, but don't call Mexicans “lousy drunk criminals” because there are plenty of those that are American born thank you very much.

There is a reason Iowa, where same sex marriage is legal, is number one or two in each of the last 25 years in education and Texas is way down the list.

I am going to have anal sex tonight in honor of my gay/bi Texas brothers and sisters!

So stupid. Another reason why I would never support or visit texas.. and im straight. But I would never support hatred and discrimination. What disgusting pieces of shit you are, Texas.

Fuck Texas, that's MESSED up. LIVE IN THE NOW. They're fucking ugly and white trash anyway.

Isn't ironic that a state full of fucking assholes wants to outlaw fucking assholes?

I thought Republicans were for LESS government interference in our lives? This is what happens when you replace education and intellect with religion.

As a resident of TX I am ashamed that this state would condone this type of behavior. I live in Austin, one of the most liberal cities in the state, but this is just horrendous.

I would like to hope some of you NORMAL Texans out there, would speak up and defend the underdog. EQUALITY FOR ALL. Prejudice is a disease. This is our fight, this generation. African Americans were first, now we have to fight for equality for gay and lesbian people. Love for all.

If ignorance is bliss, Texan Republicans must be the happiest assholes in the world! Excuse me, I forgot, assholes have a function. They're just the happiest morons in the world.

Ok. I'm a born and raised Texan. Doesn't mean I support this bullshit, and doesn't mean I'm a rebublican bc I'M NOT. I'm as outraged as any of you, and it makes you look just as discriminatory and bigoted to refer to ALL Texans as “white trash” or to say you'll never visit Texas because of ONE party's ridiculous and outdated views. Seriously? Talk about the pot calling the kettle black…

This is really poetic. I love your play on words…very much to the point….Bravo!!!

A side note, Rick Perry is up for re-election, so Texans, if you have any brain at all, vote DEMOCRAT and get these stupid republicans out of office so we can be progressive here. FYI Austin, TX is one of the most liberal towns in the country…and the number 2 most tolerant of homosexuality in the US, according to a couple studies I read a while back. We're not all backwards and ridiculous.

TEXAS STILL KICKS OTHER STATES ASS!

Pro Individual Rights huh? Did you even read the article?

I like how some people so believe that letting a homosexual couple be in love is going to 'tear up the fabric of society'. Let's feed the hungry children. Ha.

Trading hate for hate. Good job, various commenters. As a Texan, I certainly do not condone these actions, nor have I ever voted for this party to be in power. Of course we fight an uphill battle in politics, since the state has been notoriously red for a long time. This is a digraceful display of misplaced Biblical law in our current government.
However, the mudslinging should leave stains on the hands of our representatives, not on those of you more noble people that live in higher places.

What kind of fuckery is this?? I'm a born Texan and this is NOT representative of how I or anyone I know feels!! This is disgusting. Not that any of this is going to pass but I'll do whatever I have to do to fight it. I'm so ashamed that people I share air with feel this is acceptable.

Why was Ted Kennedy's and Barney Frank's biggest sponsor NAMBLA? Remember Bill Clinton and the cigar?

So that means you are a closet gay hispanic.

Can we just bomb Texas and get it over with. This is the sickest shit I've read in a long time. I'm still shocked that people think like this. Truly.

There is no sense to vote into the GOP (Goofy Old Perverts)

No but they get lots and lots of anal sex at their republicon conventions. Every closet is being used at the republicon convention.

Glad I am Canadian. Anyone who thinks this way in my country would be committed.

not all the people who come to america illegaly are “lousy drunk criminals “. A lot of them work hard just like the rest of us. Also, this whole article is stupid. If this goes through, im moving out of texas after high school

this is why Texas should become independent…cause of fucktards like all of you

That would make every republicon a felon. If God had meant Texans to ski He would have made bullshit white.

lol… oh texas… it's the little angry red-headed step child of the United States. i don't know about anyone else but i'm kind of getting sick of the whole let's attack gay people. who cares. let them be already. it's so boring to talk about.

I'm a native Texan and this is not how the entire state feels. Equality for ALL!!!!!!!

Luckily, most people in the world that are informed on American politics (like me) realize this is a deep south brain fart, not a whole US issue.

I'm gay and Mexican. I also have better grammar than you and possibly a bigger understanding on this issue since it affects me entirely. Mexican immigrants probably don't pay taxes like you do, but we wouldn't have food in our tables without their labor. These people are here to work unlike the many non-Hispanic unemployed people that spend OUR tax dollars with their welfare, medicare, food stamps, etc. It makes no sense for you to defend one group but hate on the other. Selective discrimination is still discrimination, ass. Oh, dictionaries are very helpful when you don't know how to spell something.

Amen.

Hey, don't take it out on all Texans! I'm a liberal democrat living in Texas and I personally don't know ANY republican friends who would go along with this bs. I agree with this being some sick shit. Gonna do whatever I can to make sure I don't have to live under such disgusting, back woods, ignorant, hateful laws.

actually, if you go back and read their views closer, it says they oppose the custody of children to any homosexual, meaning if they were to get their silly laws passed, then both of them would lose custody regardless of whether one is a biological parent or not. ugh.

Asshole.

Not all that live here are fucking assholes. I am 1) gay, 2) a republican (yes – an oxymoron – but it's possible) and 3) proud to be both. I am ashamed of our current governor and and the republican party – and I damn well plan to do something about it this coming November.

If you rid Texas from the US then you would create the one of the richest countries in the world, thus crippling the US. Can't get rid of Texas without serious reprocussions.

and the sheep run scared.

and the sheep run scared.

My family has been in Texas since before the Texas Revolution. This platform is not representative of the feelings or beliefs of the average native Texan. The national press is going to take this as another opportunity to paint all Texans with the homophobic redneck xenophobe right-wing christian brush. These so-called Texans are imports, much like the Bush family. They are not from here and do not speak for the vast majority of us.

My family has been in Texas since before the Texas Revolution. This platform is not representative of the feelings or beliefs of the average native Texan. The national press is going to take this as another opportunity to paint all Texans with the homophobic redneck xenophobe right-wing christian brush. These so-called Texans are imports, much like the Bush family. They are not from here and do not speak for the vast majority of us.

This is so disgusting and makes me sick almost as much as the gulf oil spill, SHAME ON U!!! is all i can say! How would u feel u rich scumbags if u were arrested and put on trial for doing ur wife and the high paid hookers we know u buy!

as a native austinite and lesbian, it makes me so sad to know that this is going on right in my own city (for those of you who don't know it's the capital). as sad as it is to read about, i don't think it will pass.

Eat my hot little 30 year old tight ass u loser! bet ur a guy and u like to do a girl up her ass and u like ur little cock sucked don't ya! what does that make u!

Lunatic fringe…I know you're out there…right there in Texasssss.

Do you flail yourself with a spiked whip every night too?

Um, what about straight people who enjoy sodomy?

You are an idiot!!!!! The only thing Texas is remembered is by having sent George W Bush to the rest of us and screw up the country and leave it in the worst shape with the worst deficit of Modern History. If this is what Texas is about. I pass. You should stay there too, nobody is going to care.

I'm a from Texas (after reading this, I'm not sure I want to admit that), and this article makes me sick to my stomach. Believe it or not, not EVERYONE from Texas are as ignorant and narrow minded as these idiots. It's 2010 people.This just angers me MORE than you can imagine. I've GOT to move.

Replace the word “thinks” with the word “realizes” and you'll have it correct.

gaysugar.com im sure the texans would <3 this site

And this is why I am ashamed to say I was born in Texas. Austin TX is one of the most liberal cities in the country! it comes in 2nd for highest vegetarian population behind San Francisco. How Texas officials think this way I do not know but all i know is I'm getting my ass out of this state ASAP

You personify why southern people are portrayed as stupid.

We all totally agree. Leave already. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.

proud texan, why don't you go stick a baby jesus butt plug up your ass because you obviously need some sweet release! we don't want you, so please, get out of the USA!

Wait a minute bnlah…you're on the Texas GOP platform…aren't you?!

WOW!! WTF?! I am also from Texas and this is bullsh*t. Can people really be this retarded? And they are running our country. Wow.

Republican friends lie to your face. This is how they believe…gawd told them to believe this way. Otherwise explain good-hair Perry as gubna. He believes this. They voted for Perry. ipso facto.

I see nothing wrong with this…except the oral sex part. Heterosexual couples should be able to engage in oral sex in the privacy of their own home.

This is absolutely despicable. Makes me so glad I'm Canadian. Where I live, gay marriage is legalized and it's not like our society is falling apart or anything of that sort. It just means that there are more happy couples out there who can share joy in marriage.

Does that mean all those “public servants” who get blow jobs will be arrested? What a crock of shit. Hypocrisy to say the least. This platform does not represent all Texans or all conservatives. What a shame to be in public office in the year 2010

Yeah, and I wonder WHY the national press is going to do that… <Sarcasm>

Clearly not all Texans share these views. There is no reason to bash the whole state. Have you ever visited the Montrose area in Houston? Every business is covered in rainbows and equality signs. I was born and raised here and proud of it, just as you are all proud of where you come from. If people seem to think we're so stupid, then I think that you should take a look around you, wherever you live, because every state has prejudice and ignorance. It is not just limited to one state and to think that is complete bullshit.

HAHA. Thats funny

The South is an embarrassment to the U.S. I hate having to deal with the stereotype of rednecks that comes from people like these Texan politicians while travelling abroad.

Hey, don't you have stories from your own country to comment on? Like that Indian girl stomped to death by her White classmates? What was her name?

Good grief, what next? Denying civil rights to women? Texas comes across as a backwater…shame on the GOP.

Oh, go to hell. The South shouldn't be an embarrasement. We didn't produce Obama.

LOLOLOL

are you SERIOUS??? since when is it the government's dam business who we sleep with or who we love?? doesn't the government have BIGGER things to worry about than peoples' private lives???? I am disgusted and ashamed. Texas GOP? you just lost my vote in the next election. My husband and I have been life long Republicans, but this may just change that for ME..

By the way…Austin Texas is a VERY diverse city. Many Californians are flocking to Texas because Texas is one of the FEW states with available jobs and a somewhat decent economy, AND a workable state budget. Houston just elected it's first gay mayor…not all Texans have tunnel vision like those who support this proposed platform.

But heterosexuals also shouldn't be allowed to partake in anal sex, even if they both enjoy it?

Also, do you agree with the sections on education? I don't really see how spending less money on education will improve anything.

same thing, NONE OF THE GOVERNMENT'S DAM BUSINESS!!!

Right, the deficit was the worst of modern history at the time of George W Bush. However, it is far worse now under Obama.

No one seems to get it anymore; the last few presidents have all been terrible.

Also, it's pretty sad that you personify a whole state with one person who comes out of it. Yeah, there are those that believe the things mentioned in this article, but honestly, there are those people everywhere. Just because the GOP is trying to pass these laws, doesn't mean that they'll pass.

EXACTLY! Equality for ALL!

I've recently moved to Texas form Maryland and I believe it is very unfortunate that some people are still this small minded community is ANY state. It is 2010, everything has advanced, technology, communication. Why not equality? This is absolutely revolting and people like this are no better than the Nazis and supremacists that made such an impact many years ago. To act like homosexuals are no better than animals is wrong and should be illegal. We are all made of flesh and blood and people seem to forget that. We are all equal despite what race, color, gender, orientation or beliefs. Why don't people accept that?

uhh so i guess its ok for them to get bj's and have anal with all their hookers and hoes, and hey if their friends and politic buddies are too .. they will let that slip by too… but god forbid a gay person does it its against the law and wrong? because they are evil and spreading diseases?? WTF thats the stupid thing ive ever read, im canadian and if this was happening in my country id be right on parliaments door steps protesting this out….i doubt this law will pass… but still even the fact that people made it is disgusting

thanks for making me laugh @ your comment “made bullshit white”…too funny! :)

thanks for making me laugh @ your comment “made bullshit white”…too funny! :)

If they're going to try this, then they need to have the same thing for heterosexual adulterers…

it shouldn't be, but god knows it is. Texas is a fucking joke if they think they can control anyone's sexual behavior.

Me too. I'm in Houston, Harris County. We voted for Obama, even if the rest of the state did not. We have a lesbian mayor and next weekend is our HUGE gay pride parade. These opinions aren't the majority, but they are scary nonetheless. There was a lot of scariness in that tirade. Corporal punishment? Evolution and global warming as questionable theories? Shameful. Disgusting.

Your ignorance is disgusting. How about they say women aren't allowed to orgasm? Would you think that's okay?

Im a republican too, and this isnt the republican party I would vote for!!!!!! I fully support marriage equality and adoption rights!!! And someone said it before what if I want to have anal/oral sex with my husband are they going to arrest me with a felony!? COME ON TEXAS WE CAN DO BETTER THAN THIS!!

Wow! What an intelligent comment (sarcasm)! Oh wait you're from the South, I guess intelligence is kind of a foreign concept to you.

If history has anything to do with this… my guess is whoever wrote the platform will be outed within the next month after being found soliciting sex in an airport bathroom or hiring a prostitute on rentboy.com.

P.S. Learn how to spell!

“We believe that homosexuality tears at the fabric of society, contributes to the breakdown of the family unit, and leads to the spread of dangerous, communicable diseases.” How about Texas starts focusing on the fact that they have one of the highest percentages of teenage pregnancy in the country? Replace “homosexuality” with “teen sex” in that statement then maybe they'll start making progress.

A right wing bigot actually acknowledging the rules the rest of us live by don't apply to them, as though somehow they're better than everyone else.

I'm shocked.

What will happen to Rick Perry and all of the other Republicans who are not gay if this type of legislation passes?

http://www.opednews.com/thoreau022704_texas_gov…

You are the most ignorant fucking person a live. I can't wait until your fat ass dies, one less person ignorant person to suck up my air.

Repugs should be more worried about the assholes hijacking their party than what gay folks do in private.

The only good thing about Texas is the Death Penalty. I can't wait until these motherfuckers get caught on camera with a whore sucking their tiny pathetic dicks.

Excuse me, but you will note this is the GOP platform and not the “Texas Platform”. Many of us in our great state don't support the GOP, in fact the majority of large cities, (Dallas, Houston, Austin, etc. voted Democratic in the last presidential election). Texans who fight for human rights, support interfaith and intercultural activities and a … See Morepro-environment, like myself and many others, need your support, not your blind hatred of our great state! It truly bothers me to hear broad statments made such as “a state filled with F'ing A'holes” and “Nuke Texas”. I'm proud of my state and of all those before me in my Texas family who fought for desegregation (my grandad) and gay rights (my father) and who were the first to dedicate a portion of profits towards non-profit work and fight for making profit sharing legal. Yes, those things began with TEXANS! So I say if you lump us together you are as ignorant as those you point fingers at. Get off your asses and fight to make a difference to help promote progressive values, don't just sit there and say stupid hurtful statements like this.

This is why I plan on moving OUT of Texas once I finish college. The Democrats can never get it together enough to battle the GOP. This is going too far, and too backwards in this modern era where people should be accepted and treated equally. This platform should make Texans embarrassed by it's injustice.

Everything in the paragraph of “the Texas GOP seeks to end” would set back everyone 10 years mentally. God damn, GOP.

Im ashamed to live in texas, i moved here 7 years ago from new jersey,

and where i live, which is in magnolia texas, PEOPLE HERE DO THINK LIKE THAT!

Im probably the only liberal democrat in my town, but hell there is a lot of rednecks down here.

Stupid, ignorant fools whose lives are haunted by hate and bigotry. Shame to anyone who votes for the archaic measures that they are presenting. Hypocrites! They had rather live in a world ruled by hate and prejudice than one ruled by love and acceptance.

What the hell are these idiots thinking if they recite the Pledge of Allegiance and end it, “…with Liberty and Justice for All” ???

This makes me ashamed to be a born and raised Texan. Excuse me while I go have a good cry…and maybe some toast.

You cannot argue something is a right if it is not good for the body. Penetration of the anus causes tearing and bleeding of the soft tissues and can damage the sphincter muscles, causing incontinence and anal prolapse.There is also a high concentration of disease causing organisms in the anus and the introduction of pathogens during the sex act itself, exposing the participants to a spectrum of contagious diseases. Democrats do not care how unhealthy homosexuality is, they just want to enforce their radical immoral worldview on the rest of America. Texas has it right. Vote Republican!

The irony is that this is going to fuck us all in the ass.

Sounds liek you have engaged in pretty risky behavior there.

There are not any republicons that are not gay.

There are not any republicons that are not gay.

There are not any republicons that are not gay.

“about than peoples' private lives” The whole Sodomy Rights movement has been all about what has been going on in homosexuals bedrooms & how they want to redefine society over it. They still want tell you who does not have a right to get married under the assumption sexual orientation is a right. Polygamists in Canada are suing under the same assumption. You cannot argue something is a right if it is not good for the body. Penetration of the anus causes tearing and bleeding of the soft tissues and can damage the sphincter muscles, causing incontinence and anal prolapse.There is also a high concentration of disease causing organisms in the anus and the introduction of pathogens during the sex act itself, exposing the participants to a spectrum of contagious diseases. Democrats do not care how unhealthy homosexuality is, they just want to enforce their radical immoral worldview on the rest of America. Texas has it right. Vote Republican!

“about than peoples' private lives” The whole Sodomy Rights movement has been all about what has been going on in homosexuals bedrooms & how they want to redefine society over it. They still want tell you who does not have a right to get married under the assumption sexual orientation is a right. Polygamists in Canada are suing under the same assumption. You cannot argue something is a right if it is not good for the body. Penetration of the anus causes tearing and bleeding of the soft tissues and can damage the sphincter muscles, causing incontinence and anal prolapse.There is also a high concentration of disease causing organisms in the anus and the introduction of pathogens during the sex act itself, exposing the participants to a spectrum of contagious diseases. Democrats do not care how unhealthy homosexuality is, they just want to enforce their radical immoral worldview on the rest of America. Texas has it right. Vote Republican!

“about than peoples' private lives” The whole Sodomy Rights movement has been all about what has been going on in homosexuals bedrooms & how they want to redefine society over it. They still want tell you who does not have a right to get married under the assumption sexual orientation is a right. Polygamists in Canada are suing under the same assumption. You cannot argue something is a right if it is not good for the body. Penetration of the anus causes tearing and bleeding of the soft tissues and can damage the sphincter muscles, causing incontinence and anal prolapse.There is also a high concentration of disease causing organisms in the anus and the introduction of pathogens during the sex act itself, exposing the participants to a spectrum of contagious diseases. Democrats do not care how unhealthy homosexuality is, they just want to enforce their radical immoral worldview on the rest of America. Texas has it right. Vote Republican!

Save a tree, eat a beaver.

A good defense is a strong offense. Why don't gays/progressives push for adultery becoming illegal? Hell, it's one of the commandments. Sodomy didn't even make the top ten. At least make it a misdemeanor. Can you imagine the increase in revenues when people are ticketed for that offense? No more recession.

A good defense is a strong offense. Why don't gays/progressives push for adultery becoming illegal? Hell, it's one of the commandments. Sodomy didn't even make the top ten. At least make it a misdemeanor. Can you imagine the increase in revenues when people are ticketed for that offense? No more recession.

A good defense is a strong offense. Why don't gays/progressives push for adultery becoming illegal? Hell, it's one of the commandments. Sodomy didn't even make the top ten. At least make it a misdemeanor. Can you imagine the increase in revenues when people are ticketed for that offense? No more recession.

The texas gop better rethink their position! I have never met a man that didn't like oral sex! So does this law mean they want to give that up? Or will loose lips tip off the police about a political rival and his wife [or partner] enjoying a little oral sex which will lead to embarrassment and arrest? Man ! I'm sure glad I don't live in texas with all their rules! Will they only enforce their laws on “certain” people or will all be expected to follow the stringent uptight confining laws? What a bunch of narrow minded, ignorant racists. I wish rick perry and his buddies would secede from the union! This country doesn't need these kind of intolerant buffoons! Let them secede and good riddance to these nuts. Isn't this the very reason we left England?

But the South is an embarassment. It shouldn't be but it always has been. Illiteracy, slavery, ignorance, inbreeding, klan, lynching, laziness, they got it all.

Yes, but you are responsible for the NITWIT former President G.W. Bush, who couldn't string a paragraph together to save his life. I totally understand WHY “The Dixie Chicks” were embarrassed he was from Texas!

Excuse me, but just because someone is from the South does not mean that they have any less intellectual ability than someone from the North or wherever the fuck you are. Yeah, what my state is doing is fucked up, and as soon as most of us can, we'll start fighting it, but for you, someone who doesn't live here or know the culture to judge all of us based on what you've read and heard, is a true lack of intelligence. I'm 17 and I could probably fucking school you on half the shit you think you know. Christ and people wonder why there's still oppression in the states, fucking idiots, everywhere, thats why. You're all fucking stupid, I'm so glad my generation is nothing like any of you “adults” because we're the ones that are going to changing this deadbeat fucking country into what it should be.

Reading this article makes me feel uneasy. I am a gay resident of Texas. I live with my partner of 4 years and we both happen to be state employees. I cannot believe that our beautiful state is being influenced by such hateful individuals. Life as a homosexual is already a hard thing to deal with and now they want to make it illegal for me to make love to the love of my life? Are you kidding me? As a child, growing up in Texas schools and playing in Texas parks, I never once imagined that an important group of people who influence the very blocks that surround me would want to hurt, degrade and limit me so badly. Tonight, i will pray to God and ask that he bless each of you with wisdom, compassion and forgiveness because you are all brainless, cruel and disgusting.

Bet you got a chubby while writing that.

um… condom?

Anal sex… good for the goose AND the gander!!!!

Welcome to my world!!! I've been told many of the same things because of my Arizona address.

mary ann has a good point, its not everyone. and i dont get how someone would go to jail for sodomy, what would the cops do, spy on people when theyre having sex and and then arrest them. and they really should stop saying theyre making something illegal because of theyre faith, if theyre gonna make sodomy and gay marriage illegal they should make tattoos, piercings, shellfish, lintel soup, sex before marriage, disobaying parents, lying, cheating, masterbation, impure thoughts, and harming one's body( smoking, drinking, ect.) well i think you get the point

Again I say to you…. CONDOM!

No wonder Texass is #1 in teen pregnancy.

are you guys going to make farting a crime good lord you over weight ignorant state! you want to cut pre-school?why not bring back slavery while your at it whats wrong with you?

What you fail to understand, sir, is that this applies to HETEROSEXUAL couples as well, and that sodomy laws include ORAL sex as well. By the way – your mouth is likely more dirty than your anus. Republicans always bemoan the government's encroachment in our personal lives and, when elected, are always the first to bring government into the most private aspects of our personal lives. As per usual, Texas is sorely mistaken.

You make some good points, but your ideas would gain more respect if you could spell. If you don't know how to spell a word, look it up, or ask someone and use your computer's spellcheck. It's not too late in life for you to care if people think you're stupid, especially when you're probably not.

Shameful and un-American.

You have got to be kidding… this is BS at its purest! Pious, self-righteous BS… This is nothing but infringement on individual rights as far as the sodomy laws go… As for the lottery, in addition to the funding for education, it also provides JOBS! End funding for pre-K? Folks, most families I know that have two parents, both have to work to support their families… and there are single parent households too where the single parent has to work to support the family… I can go on and on about this…

Again, it's all pure BS…

[And I live in Texas, so please don't stereotype me and others I know as being for this or responsible for this]…

The Gulf is about to have so much oil it could be paved and all these jerks worry about is who is doin what with their d**ks.

This point of view is not shared by all people in Texas. I for one think that it's disgusting! I cannot believe that these people think they are speaking for all of us. I'm not gay or bi, but I should have the right to be with someone of the same sex if I want to, without fear that I'll be arrested just for holding her hand. I'd hate to get a call from my best friend to bail her out coz she landed in jail over something like this. I have a feeling that this is going to end up isolating a lot of people who have recently become Republicans due to the current issues in Washington.

No wonder I hate Texas…they're just a bunch of ignorant intolerant RACISTS.

i’m confused by this “part for whole” analysis. i am not religious by any stretch of the imagination but to say that all catholics support pedophilism simply by association is ludicrous. political party lines are so blurred these days that you can absolutely be a republican and think all of this is a crock of shit. it’s pretty fallacious to take one example or situation and have it represent a whole idealogy..

Okay this is crazy. Its obvious Texas is trying to limit anything (i.e information, teachings…etc) that isn't taught or accepted in the bible, but what did the preschoolers do to deserve this? And about corporal punishment… what is this, the 1940's ? Don't children have rights? Its not a teacher/principal's place to handle the behavior of a child in such a manner, its the duty of the parents. Any violence against children should be absolutely prohibited. And Texas obviously doesn't understand homosexuality is a personal choice, & as an adult Texans should have the right to make that choice. Who the hell are they to tell you what you can and cant do in the privacy of your own home? And if Texas is concerned about sodomy harming the participants…. EVER HEARD OF A CONDOM ?

No, not everyone in Texas agrees with any of this…

And, it's just as unfair to be stereotyped as racist simply because someone lives in Texas…

Teh stoopid! IT BURNS!

I live in Texas, though I can say I don't adhere to that POV.
I wish people wouldn't say EVERYONE is like that…

This is the older generation and they think what they're raised to think.
The younger generation is much more pliable to gay rights and stuff like that…
Hopefully some of that generation replaces the hard assed oldies there.

Anyway, this is really appalling the way they are being so damned forward about it.
“OMGOSHH BUTTSECKS IS A CRIMMEEEE!111!!”

Uh, guys?

He was making a joke.

(Or at least I assume he was…)

Too bad this isn't a hilarious and crafty sabotage attempt on the part of Texas Dems.

Fellow Texans,

Obviously this platform does not speak for us; it is document with a disgusting amount of Texas GOP sponsored threats. We have an election coming up, y'all. We cannot expect an administration strutting around on this platform to be anything short of catastrophic.

I have no heart for these ignorant right-wing dillholes, But I do live in Austin texas, Im proud to say i was born here and I do get a little pissed when people assume everyone here Thinks in such a manner…….Oh and ive met rick perry…..he's a deusche

“Many Californians are flocking to Texas because Texas is one of the FEW states with available jobs and a somewhat decent economy, AND a workable state budget”

“This is absolutely despicable. Makes me so glad I'm Canadian. Where I live, gay marriage is legalized and it's not like our society is falling apart or anything of that sort”

Anyone notice the irony between these two posts. Also it should be important to note that no-fault divorce is a far bigger threat to the family and society at large than gay marriage.

Anyways, these article shows you how f*cked up this country is. If we're not being grinded up under the heel of international bankers, military industrialists, and spendthrift socialists who think that throwing tax money at problems solves them, then we've got crazy religious fundies who are wanting government to patrol people's homes to see who they're sleeping with.

This is disgusting on SO many levels – and as if the blatant homophobia and attempted legislation of bible LORE weren't enough…they're trying to ban bilingual education and government funding of pre-k education?

Texans this is WRONG, and for all of you who comment below that you want people to stop stereotyping all Texans as ignorant/racist/homophobic/whatever….GO VOTE AGAINST THIS. Make a difference. No one can but you.

I think I'll move to Texas if this passes, I agree with these ideas. The reason you guys don't like this is because you live in sin, you want to be your own god and decide what is good and right for your own life. I respect these officials and their adherence to Biblical principals. If more states would do this, the United States might return to what it once was, when the founding fathers were in charge.

You're very unintelligent for making this comment. I'm a Republican from Dallas. And I would never agree to what this platform states. But people like you spreading hate are what make people like “Them” want to continue passing such laws and platforms. If you stand for “Tolerance for all” why would you make such a ridiculous comment like “racists”. Do you even know what the word means?

here we go with stereotyping again…

These Texas guys and gals have Gay on the brain. No one is this fixated about something without subconsciously really liking it. So many Texans are subconsciously Gay that if they were honest and “manned-up” about it then Texas could become the world's first Gay country!

I am so embarrassed to live in Tx, I always have been, we don't have a say in what goes on here, it just goes on. It's very degrading being a citizen here.

so many of us will vote against all of this… as well as vote against Rick Perry returning for another year of his BS… but, all we can do is try… there's no guarantee we'll win…

You are saying that you don't believe in oral sex either? My husband and I are quite fond of it thanks for your concern though.

“The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation.” -Pierre Elliot Trudeau, former Prime Minister of Canada. Don't like gay people? You know what, that's ok. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. America couldn't be a free country if those who choose to remain hateful and ignorant didn't have the right to do so.
However. Nothing gives one group the right to say that the way another person was born makes them less of a human. Nothing gives one group the right to limit the education of our children. Nothing gives one group the right to decide who can be married and who cannot. Call me old fashioned, but I think cohabitation sets a couple up for failure and gay couples should have the same opportunity for a life long partnership as a straight partnership.
So Texans who disagree with the GOP, please stand up and vote.

It's not even the concern of being gay, I completely agree with the lifestyle don't get me wrong. I am straight and married and I can proudly say my husband and I like oral and anal sex… so we should be arrested too.

Sin is living out of communion with God. If God is love, how can this hate be without sin? The founding fathers were for liberty, not having the government legislate morality. Your response clearly shows the lack of understanding that is driving this ridiculous set of proposals.

WOW!!
The founding fathers gave us freedom of religion so YOUR religion can't dictate MY religion.
Your religion teaches tolerance, and acceptance by a loving God. You can't claim you are a Christian because you go to church on Sunday. You need to be a Christian the rest of the week! You want the country to go back to where there was slavery and woman had zero rights?? GET A CLUE!!

i just got done having butt sekks with my girl , no wonder i’m unemployed because i’m now a felon… guess i’ll have to go on wellfare

“The reason you guys don't like this is because you live in sin, you want to be your own god and decide what is good and right for your own life.”

Of course we want to decide for ourselves what is good and right for us, This is America, and we have every right to do so. We don't like this because it violates our freedom to make our own decisions.

Ever watch V for Vendetta? This is Texas in the future….

yea you sound like you belong in the westboro baptist church more than texas. go to this website and truly DENY that you do ANY of this: http://www.11points.com/Books/11_Things_The_Bible_Bans,_But_You_Do_Anyway

There is no constitutional way anti-sodomy laws can be reinstated; the U.S. Supreme Court has already struck down such laws as unconstitutional. If any state were to even attempt to reinstate such laws, then federal courts would intervene and stop them so fast it'll make their heads spin.

Hmm… sending us gays to jail for sodomy. You guys obviously didn't think this plan through. For the crime of engaging in oral and anal sex with other men, you are going to lock us in a building with other men… for years? Hundreds of gay men in confined spaces, with nothing to do but work out, eat very little [because I hear the food sucks] and what else?… Oh yeah, bang each other. [I've seen Oz, I know what kind of kinky stuff goes on in prison] By the time we all get out we're going to be in amazing shape and in very good moods [because of all the illegal sex we're going to be having]. I'm almost sorry I won't be living in TX much longer. That kinda sounds like good times to me.

No but in all seriousness, these people are ridiculous. It amazes me that with all the things the repulican party could tackle in the state [oil spill, education, teen pregnacy to name a few] they pick butt sex and bjs as our biggest problem. And they wander why nobody takes them seriously?

I like Texas, ALOT. In fact I'd rather live there than in Massachusetts (my current state of residence for what I hope isn't much longer). But this aggrevates me to an extent that I can't even express. Hopefully Dr. Paul steps up and slaps some sense into people. Who you have sex with is your business. Not anyone elses and definately not the governments. Also making gay marriage a felony? WTF? The “mandate that evolution and global warming be “taught as challengeable scientific theory”" seems a bit redundant. All science is challengeable, that's why its science. Man…

Agreed. I keep saying “What about Lawrence v. Texas? Did people forget about that case already? Its only been 7 years”

There is no God

It's past time for Texans to SLAP SOME COMMON SENSE INTO THEMSELVES.
They've been too lazy or stupid to do that so far.
TEXAN STUPIDITY should be a federal offense punished by life in prison, no parole.

do you even listen to yourself? they’re trying to pass this law because they are bias against homosexuality just like you’re bias against texans. you are no better than the ignorant people trying to pass this law.

THIS IS CRAZY? DID THEY MAKE IT A LAW TO REMOVE PART OF PEOPLE'S BRAINS SO THEY CAN DE-EVOLVE TOO?

SO TIRED OF THE RELIGIOUS AGENDA!!! START EVOLVING PEOPLE! GAY IS BEAUTIFUL!

I totally agree, the government shouldn't be able to tell us who we can and can't sleep with. what is happening to our rights???? Obama is messing up everything with him being in office, seems like he is messing us up more than Clinton or Bush!!!!!! I guess I'll be locked up cause I'm not changing for someone else I am what i am and very pleased at my lifestyle!!!!

Very true, the same for us lesbians for oral sex, they lock us up and it will be with women and we all have watched prison shows or know people that has been there and the only sex is with other women, come lock me up I will have a ball going one to another lol, no prefer not but you get the point!!!

Hey asswipes, this would put 78% of the tory party behind bars. Ooops! That's what they want…to be some ones bitch in the big house.

What about the commandment to “Above all else, Love one another?” This law is not loving in any way shape or form. Also, what about not judging others. Oh, and also what about all sins being the same in God’s eyes, so judging someone for participating in the act of “sodomy” is just as wrong as being the one participating in the act.

Conservatism is a mental illness. We need to identify those that cannot be cured and put them away for their own safety. There aren't as many of them as there seem to be — the rest are just the misinformed that jump on the bandwagon. Once the illness is contained, those bandwagoneers will come back to their senses in time, and our country can heal properly.

Sound like a plan? >:)

Homosexuality is not a choice….people are born with a bend in their sexuality and experiences help shape that sexuality, but what gender you are attracted to is not a conscious choice.

No porn either
http://guttertruth.blogspot.com/2010/06/you-can…

Um…what the hell does this have to do with Obama? lol

How is the Republican platform Obama's fault? He has nothing to do with Republicans being bigoted idiots.

Any time you guys want to roll up Austin and move it east, I'll help you. Texas doesn't deserve Austin.

I agree with you so much. I am a lesbian in Tx, this is ridiculous. I want to be able to sleep with my partner when I so choose to, no one should tell me you can't have oral sex it is a felony I think Tx. needs to do some readjusting!!!!

I agree!

“You cannot argue something is a right if it is not good for the body.”
I suppose that would include smoking tobacco, drinking alcohol, and eating fast food. Good to know that Texas has it right.

Personal choices should not be mandated, just as most would argue that smoking, drinking, and eating fast food are their personal choices. So don't try to cover it up your homophobia with that argument, because it's not even logical.

This political stance disgusts me.

You are no gentleman, sir!

The religious right wackos have got ahold of the Texas legislature and I can't wait to see them go down in a ball of flames. And take Palin with you

They'd have to promptly arrest the governor, Rick Perry if this passed. He enjoys sodomizing.

Every family has a gay relative. If all gays would call in sick for one day, regardless of your job, the world would stand up and take notice. Business would have to close for the day. Hospitals would be so short handed, you wouldn't want to wish that on anyone. That list would go on and on. We, the gay community know it. I only wish we would not be afraid to show it…

If you vote Republican, you support the platform. If you're a catholic, you support the paedophilic organization. Any person who believes that race supercedes worth is a racist; the Republican platform is, in fact, racist. Tolerance does not include tolerating violence against children and prison sentences for having a partner that isn't state-approved. No tolerant person simply shrugs off human misery.

I agree with you, but technically removing a part of the brain would be evolution, not de-evolution. As it is a mutation/ modification not seen before in humans, it's evolving. Evolution doesn't necessarily make organisms smarter, just better equipped to survive.
However, going back to knuckle-dragging would be considered de-evolving.

I'll go along with Sam on that — despite everything the Republicans have done to portray the educated as a suspicious lot, if you want to be taken seriously, and have your voice heard, you have to be able to use the English language effectively — at the very least.

Bullets penetrate the body, causing tearing and bleeding of the soft tissues and shattering bones. There is a high possibility of disease-causing organisms entering the body, both by way of the original projectile and afterward in the hospital, up to and including flesh-eating disease. Unlike the targeted objects of adult sex, bullets often penetrate random by-standers, many of them children, pregnant women, and older white people. Republicans do not care how unhealthy gun ownership is, they just want to enforce their radical, immoral worldview on the rest of America.

Ironic isn't it?

And wasn't much good at it. Impatient, impatient.

Most people are aware that Austin is gay-friendly. Like the media-meme that Americans loathe Britain now, because of BP, it simply isn't true. Line up, and we'll do it on a case-by-case basis as we meet you. But until then, admit that if the majority of Texas citizens were not just as ignorant as the GOP platform suggests, that platform would have been laughed off the stage. If you don't like the reality that your state wishes to embrace, you'll have to stand up and be heard. Because except for the occasional internet contact, we aren't hearing from anyone sane in Texas or Arizona.

This will not fly with the GOP from Texas and all the Law Makers in DC. Look this is what these guys do and they can't afford to spend the RNC money on Gay/Sex Clubs anymore. In Georgia Law Makers tak pride having sex with animals. If you have read it yet after 8 years of headlines the GOP and even some Dems are freaks in the sex department. Former Senator Larry Craig was looking for a booty call in the men's room and Rep. Mark Foley liked young boys. The GOP as a join supported the conduct of their fellow Republicans. Does anyone remember the Republican Law Makers who attended Duke Cunninghams wild parties with men/female entertainment. Oh they called it a poker game but Porter Goss just said poke. Now you can attack Obama for helping Americans and you can continue the mission to make sure Obama and the USA fail but no way can Texas change the sex policy for the GOP. Rush has to go overseas for his action with kids because of the US Laws.

The authors of these planks obviously love big government when it comes to enforcing their religious beliefs.

Oh, and AP style for Texas is Tex. not “TX”.

Yeah, those rednecks in Texas are against sodomy as long as it's between two men. They love watching two women go at it, and it's all right for a guy to get a BJ from a woman or bang his wife in the can. Why don't they form their own redneck country and leave the rest of us alone. The country is laughing at you losers… hahahaha.

The important thing, Caceaf1, is that you shouldn't have to explain yourself in any way. That's my opinion as a heterosexual: what your sexuality is is nobody's goddamn business. You don't have to “legitimize” yourself as far as I'm concerned.

*They* have to legitimize their bigotry, and naturally, they cannot.

It's called Obama Derangement Syndrome or ODS. Some people hate Obama so much, everything under the Sun can be blamed on him, regardless of whether or not it makes any sense whatsoever.

Bush was the one who wanted to outlaw gay marriage in the first place – Obama had actually given gays more rights than ever. Personally, it's stupidity and bigotry like this that makes me glad I no longer live under Rick Perry's tyrannical rule.

Just putting it out there, as an educated Texan, not all of us are this ridiculous.

BOW

Well, with the large number of conservative hispanic population in texas, perhaps the GOP is appealing to their ignorance and prejudice — aren't most of them catholic? Not that bright and think in kind of a collective manner? Is that what Texas is telling the rest of the USA? I wonder if our California hispanics are this stupid — we just managed to change the California constitution against gay marriage. Both partys really WANT illegals here — they are a hostage demographic, cheap labor and not that bright overall because they come from third world countries where they get little education. So, maybe on our way to third world land we are going to become stupid and ignorant and hate on gays, etc., etc. If you ask me Texas is in your face slamming not just gays, but really, hispanics as people who can be abused and easily derailed — you know, like they are in Mexico. And as they are increasingly being abused here in the USA. Welcome, if I were a Mexican at this point I'd rethink coming to the USA or Mexico #2 and perhaps run straight on through to Canada. As for me, being an American, I'm thinking maybe I should run through to Canada too. The GOP is the do nothing party of nuts and the Dems are the other do nothing party of spinelss whiners. Either way, they both serve the special interest groups, the large corporations and the very wealthy. What you have here is just a nod to the fact that apparently hispanics will tolerate anything, are anti-gay and easily controlled. Right? Pretty much the same as Americans.

This is embarassing!!! I want to move and I have always been proud to be a Texan, this makes me SICK!

no, just most of you ;)

That quote? The one above? Yeah, that one… The most ridiculous piece of shit thinking in the history of planet earth. Ah, but it's Texas, home to some of the dumbest MF's the USA has to offer. These guys and gals would have had a SWELL time during the inquisition.

Why is it? Because Obama talks shit but when it comes to actually taking a STAND he is the weakest punk bitch, hell, that I ever remember as president. He makes Carter look like FDR.
Agree with him or not Bush had balls enough to do exactly what he wanted and fuck you if you didn't like it. And guess what, look how much shit that Bush destroyed in 8 years. Man, say what you want, that took some balls. Obama is a fucking wimp … or more likely, a closet republican.

Please don't generalize all Texans based upon this garbage. There are plenty of us that find this to be disgusting. My family and friends will not be voting for anything like this

Republicans and Texans are BIGOTS….rednecks, stupid, uneducated, gun toting racist homophobs….many of whom are closeted homosexuals without the courage to live their lives honestly.

You really don’t deserve a reply because you’d be too stupid to understand and too ignorant to embrace it.

straight or homosexual we all still people we deserve to be treated just like everybody else back in the day it was about slave and we over come that and now the government is turning their head to running against the homosexual which is not right and if you believe God and telling us this n that about what he said well God also said do not judge anyone gay straight bi transsexual Black White Asian r Mexican and that's exactly what you guys are doing..so therefor you guys also going to hail..we de homosexual have the rights to be our self just like any other human on this planet..WE ARE THE PEOPLE ON THIS EARTH TOO SO RESPECT US FOR WHO WE ARE AND NOT WHAT YOU GUYS WANT US TO BE!!

god created all of us to be different if all of us was de same de life would be boring..GO GAY R NO WAY!! $_$ ahha kidding..anyway is fine just dont judge us r n e 1 else..cause we all special in our own ways WAT DE GOVERNMENT NEED TO WORRY ABOUT IS MAKIN DE STATES A BETTER PLACE N ALL DE MONEY WE SPENDIN ON STUPID SHIT EXPECT FOR WORRY ABOUT OTHER STUPID SHIT..THEY WORRYIN ABOUT DE WRONG SHIT..

and for all the people that judge us you guys should look at yourself first before you guys talk about others..

awee ur sweet

i love ur comment cause its soo true

I accidently hit like on this – apparently an error I can't correct. johnnie is apparently an eighth grader based on his vocabulary. Actually I really like Carter and think he has a lot of balls. So there, little boy Johnnie.

We got the message alpha was trying to make. Get over the petty spelling corrections. In this forum substance is more important than spelling.

put away de illness makes no sence u guys sayin stupid shit we are all humans hea no 1 is perfect in this word..god made us all to be different..n its not a illness its just who we are

shit i guess imma be lock up wit u..cause i aint changin for no 1 to fuk dat shit…dis is who we are…everybody have their own life to live..WAT IM SAYIN IS LIVE UR OWN LIFE N NOT WORRY ABOUT OTHERS

also i gotta say LIVE UR OWN LIFE TO DE FULLEST N NOT WORRY ABOUT OTHERS..STRAIGHT GAYS R BIS WHO CARES LET US BE US N U GUYS BE U!!

I LIKE ALOT OMG HAHA DATS TRUE THEY DIDNT THINK IT THOUGH…CAUSE WE ALL WILL BE IN DERE N WE ALL GONNA BE FUKIN N MAKIN OUT N CRAP..EXCUSE MY LANGUAGE..its like a big gay prison party ahhahah lmao ^_^”

I live in TX I am not a bigot, a fundamentalist or straight, and i feel like my voice is not being heard by my representatives.

its not old fashion its just how it is n i love ur words!!

Oh, yeah, as if Texas republicans will be willing to give up their hummers!

Oh, yeah, as if Texas republicans will be willing to give up their hummers!

LOL. Well guess what…. it isn't!

I have read alot of the replies here, and have only one thing to add,
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the problem,
Vote!!! Spread the word!! tell everyone about this platform, friends, neighbors,
political leaders and yes, tell your churches too!
shoot this ignorance and hatemonging and bible perverting crap down
and show people what Texas Pride and education is!
or shut up, do nothing, and watch it get passed.

Actually AP style for Texas is Texas. States with 5 or fewer letters don't get shortened. :)

Every state has “rednecks” “gangbanger” “losers” I could go on and on, so what makes you think you are better than anyone?

Please be kind m'am. I'm a Texan and I'd sooner shave my head than let some of my extremist counterparts take control of the government and impose disgusting and hateful laws on homosexual people. Some people just don't know how to drop the ape-like ignorant bible-thumping and finger pointing and screaming long enough to discover that what others do in the privacy of their own bedrooms or within their circle of friends concerns no one else. I apologize on behalf of my idiot asshole neighbors, but realize that we are all not that way. In any case, I share your rage.

Texan politicians would turn the US into Iranian US. They want to be our hard-line fundamentalist Christian mullahs. The would hire morality police to cruise around and have the authority to beat up anyone showing signs of lax moral character.

Keep religion out of my government. I'm serious. I don't mind leisurely fairy tales but not when they dictate what is to happen in Congress in the age of technology. Let's all join hands and choose to grow up.

Unfortunately I have a feeling they would start picking and choosing who they arrested, they would just “forget” to arrest some people.

have you ever noticed how fixated conservatives are on sex? the biggest perverts are conservative God fearing Christians. Those fundies just love getting in other people's undies. They just can't help it. It's appears to be innate.

40% of Americans think Jesus will return by 2050.

http://bit.ly/cpiibu

Education is a solution

supreme court cases can be overturned.it happens all of the time.

Every state has “rednecks” “gangbanger” “losers” I could go on and on, so what makes you think you are better than anyone?

The fact that you are responding more strongly to percieved Texas bashing than to the Texas Republican Party for human decency bashing.

Also the fact that these guys aren't simply “rednecks” “gangbanger” “losers” but platform writers for one of the two major parties for your state.

Vote?

Thats your best solution?

I agree, indeed, apathy is the problem, but the Right sees themselves at “war” and they are fighting for neo-fascist policies. Voting is the laziest form of action a person can take.

I agree with your alarm, indeed anyone who sees themselves as a progressive ought to be, but we need direct-action. Organize. Clear ethical positions. NO more compromises.

These guys want to make eating your wife punishable by 15 years in prison?!

The real obscenity here is that nearly half the American people support the people who want to do this!

except for card-carrying republicans and evangelicals …

wow.. im like crying.

I (not joking here) seriously thought conservative christians were more into anal sex than anyone else. isn't that the big thing with young, christian kids these days? so they could technically still stay virgins until marriage?

Have you been taking blathering lessons from Sarah Palin?

What a joke..Texas, Arizona, the people of the south. What a joke really. Not humans but cretins..reptilians. The laughingstock of the world. What a joke of a people.

To wit: Gee Duhbya

I'm a Texan. I was a punk rocker in high school and college in the 80s and politically involved in progressive issues, anti-racist campaigns, homosexual civil rights movements and various other activities including direct actions against big oil and other corporate excess. I hold a Bachelor of Arts from The University of Texas and graduated with 3.8 GPA in my college and a 3.6 overall. I don't own a gun. I live in a racially mixed neighborhood with virtually no race based antagonisms. My children are sociologically color blind. While straight, I have interacted with homosexuals my entire adult life and have very close friends, both single and couples, who are homosexual. My children, one of whom is going through puberty, are entirely non-plussed by all of this.

I wasn't raised by hippies – I was raised in a very conservative military family. My father is vitriolically homophobic and something of a racist although he is educated at a Master's Degree level.

My point, Willhize, is that, yes, Texas is a very consevative state. In fact, as this article illustrates, pretty around the bend conservative. In addition to all of the above, I have friends who are conservative who are as horrified as what is going on in the Republican Party as I am. Bigoted, “rednecks, stupid, uneducated, gun toting racist homophobs…” aren't exclusive to Texas – I've traveled the entire lower 48 extensively as a professional musician and there are an abundance everywhere. Maybe more here than other places, but everywhere nonetheless. Blanket generalizations cheapen dialogue and are a common tactic of the people of which you speak so extremely.

I'm not defending these people. Lowering yourself to their standards nullifies your point and grants them an instant win. There are Texans, Arizonans, South Carolinans and people surrounded by ignorance elsewhere on the right side of history in this. If you truly want to be, I suggest you choose your targets to those deserving rather than the entire geographic area.

Umm… the “I don’t recall” guy. You know, what’s his name.

dumbass Obama is a democrat ,this is your baby fuckin gun totin repubs doing this. did you even read the article ,so go and keep your lifestyle as a sheep , follow the herd

And, just for the record and to commiserate a bit, I spent a lot of the 80s literally getting the shit beat out of me by bigoted, redneck, stupid, uneducated, gun toting racist homophobes. I don't regret a single scar.

good job on the immigrant stuff, the sodomy thing though really is more of a concern to the church and should be left out of the government.

Oh and by definition sodomy is any type of sexual interaction that is not for the purpose of procreation. not just anal. imagine getting convicted for pulling out. not exactly fair.

After reading this I'm in tears. I love this state, but I'm really, really tired of being attacked for loving my boyfriend.

This article was very biased and written for the Texas Democrat Party

It is nice to see the GOP so far out of touch with the mainstream of the USA that they will never have the Presidency again.

Self-marginalization is a power medicine, they seem to not be able to HEAR themselves and perceive how others judge them, totally blind!

oh trust me i did i put it on facebook myspace n im goin to tell all my friends about dis crap

Actually a small minority adhere to these silly Goppers right wingnut beliefs.

First you have the fact that only half of the eligible people vote, then the GOP is roughly half of that. Then the gop is split up into 3 different factions: The Moderates (Crist, etc), the Xian Conservatives and the TeaBaggers. So in reality you end up with 15% of the population, which is also the percentage of people with an IQ below 88!

USA=Freedom…SIKE!! they just want u to think that u have Freedom here but with all these LAWS they are taking away alot of ur freedom. There's no such thing as freedom anymore. Swine flu was FAKE btw. and ever see those jets that leave chem trails in the sky? the future for this world looks scary D:

As long as the textbooks aren't published in Texas!

Larry Craig Had better stay out of restrooms in Texas.

Sadly, it is not the people but the loudest segment of a divided population and those in office currently who are pushing as hard as they can to grab whatever possible straws in order to return to the past they perceive as being better. They seem to be afraid that their lifestyles will be adversely affected by the “other”. It is very sad and hopefully this 1800's fever will abate soon.

That's “Democratic” party. If the Texas Republican party looks like a bunch of sex-obsessed fools with a despotic streak because of their own platform that is their own doing, not a result of any bias in the reporting.

You know, if any of those 181 people were actually having sex, their opinions might be a little different. What people do behind their bedroom doors has nothing to concern you if it's not hurting anyone. (“Being consensual, adult+adult sexual acts. Any sadomasochism must be fully approved by both parties.” :P Just stick that in the bill)

if you're going to use the bible against homosexuality, you should also use it for these bible laws:
-bible says you can’t work on the Sabbath and the penalty is stoning
-bible says the same penalty about planting different crops side by side.
-Any body who curses their mother or father should be put to death.
-You can’t wear clothes made of more than one fabric.
- touching the skin of a dead pig makes one unclean.
-If a man or woman has sex with an animal, both human and animal must be killed.
-If a man has sex with a woman on her period, they are both to be “cut off from their people”
-People who have flat noses, or is blind or lame, cannot go to an altar of God.
-Anyone who curses or blasphemes God, should be stoned to death by the community.
-Anyone who dreams or prophesies anything that is against God, or anyone who tries to turn you from God, is to be put to death.
-If anyone, even your own family suggests worshiping another God, kill them.
-If you find out a city worships a different god, destroy the city and kill all of it's inhabitants… even the animals.
-There are rules of selling your daughter, her master making her marry him, and then her role if he wants more wives.
-If a man sleeps with an unwed virgin, he must marry her. But if her father refuses to give her to the man, then the man must pay the “pay money according to the dowry of virgins”
-if a man rapes his female slave… the woman gets punished and the man's sins are forgiven.
- any child who is stubborn or rebellious should be stoned to death.

from what i've seen with republicans getting caught in same sex acts in public, i'm starting to think they're the inventors of the Glory Hole.

from what i've seen with republicans getting caught in same sex acts in public, i'm starting to think they're the inventors of the Glory Hole.

i truly am sorry for what you go through. i grew up in south florida, around a lot of homosexuals (partly because of colorguard). i didn't even know about homophobia until i moved tennessee at the age of 17. you shouldn't have to live in fear. you have every right to hold your head up high, love your man, and tell those asshole where they can stick their damned law!
this law is worst than Don't Ask Don't Tell or the ban against gays donating blood. america is too damned nosy with other countries business that they don't notice that we're the ones in trouble.

and it's against the bible to have sex in any position other than missionary. god, how boring is that? if they sentenced people prison time for going at it doggy-style or reverse cowgirl and other ways, the prisons will bust at their seams!

Anyone who who supports the Texas GOP can go fnck Jesus Christ in the ass.

This is in the works if the Supreme Court doesn't strike down this foolish set of laws!

Dear Texas GOP:

Blow Me!

I'm going to admit straight off the bat that I'm not going to sit here and read all of the comments on this thread because, frankly, there are a lot of them and from what I have already seen the rest will be in the same vein of people calling Texans ignorant rednecks diseased with intolerance and bigotry being countered by Texans trying to explain that this is not a sentiment that the whole state shares (with a few trolls thrown in for good measure, of course). So forgive me if I restate anything already mentioned, I would just like to put my two cents in.
For those of you who are putting all of Texas on blast, please know this: the majority of us do not feel this way. Texas is a very large state and, for those of you who have not had the pleasure of visiting, is surprisingly diverse. Texas actually has the highest percentage of gay parents in the union, at least according to the latest study I have read, granted it could be different now seeing as how that was a few months ago.
Most Texans would like the government to stay out of their personal lives and their homes, so you can see how this would not make a lot of us happy because it is an invasion of what we hold very dear, out privacy. I do believe that there are those out there who support it, but you cannot say that just because you are from somewhere more Northern that there are not people in your state who feel the same. That being said, that still does not justify the above statements. Texas republicans generally come in about two groups: moderate being the majority and extremist the minority. Unfortunately, one stereotype that does apply is that in smaller, more rural towns there is more intolerance; however I think that you will find that most Texans feel that what people do in their own home is their business and their business alone. Also unfortunate is the fact that whatever GOP member that penned this is relying in the support of said extremist voters, and I can only hope that this disgusting piece of sexism isn't an actual platform and if it is, I will surely be writing my congressmen to let them know what a step backwards for personal liberties this is.
Finally, for those of you who feel that we are more upset over Texas looking bad rather than being upset over this blatant middle finger to the Civil Rights Act, please try to look at it this way: if someone said something that made your mother (or someone else that you cherish) look bad, would you first leap to your mother's defense or would you argue every point that person made first? Texans have a love for Texas that is hard to understand from the outside looking in, and in all honesty, if you have a problem with that, I could really care less. If you're going to be so quick to generalize and stereotype all Texans, and all southerners for that matter, then you are surely no better than the person or persons who made the statements in the article above.

And I shudder to think what the Roberts Supreme Court might do.

Texas GOP's Deep Shit Platform Explodes, Sinks

I just have one question. If the majority of those in Texas “do not feel this way,” then how is it that you elect so many legislators who DO “feel this way”? I hate stereotypes and generalizations, but I have trouble believing that the state legislators in states such as Texas and Oklahoma (to name two states which have proposed and often passed some rather draconian legislation) are mavericks who don't reflect the values, preferences, and philosophies of their constituents.

They need to get of the cross and get a life!
http://ogunquitbeachinn.blogspot.com/

Further proof that TX and the Republicans are full of bigoted morons.

Then why do you keep electing people who support that sort of platform?

BULLSHIT. You do feel this way. Why do you think that nutjob Rick Perry was governor? Why do you think you elected GEORGE W. BUSH as governor? Why do you allow this to happen? You Texans are dumber than dog shit and fatter than Rush Limbaugh on a force feed conveyor belt.

Can we reduce the number of Congressmen from Texas? If 60% of Texans are illegals shouldn't they lose their electoral votes as well?

Sure would make the USA a better place to live …

If I had messed up the culture as much as heteros have (and I had no brain) I'd be looking for scapegoats too.

I dunno about that, have you read the Song of Solomon? o_o

I think you mean that “if you have a problem with that, you COULDN'T care less.” Saying “I could care less” implies that you care a great deal at the moment. I'm not usually a grammar nazi, but in this case you've stated the exact opposite statement from what you meant.

Being from Texas, I cannot honestly say I speak for a majority or a minority… I don't have numbers/statistics to present to you… All I can say is that I know a good number of people [family, friends and acquaintances] who do not agree with some or all of this garbage. So, with that being said, whether minority or majority, stereotyping ALL TEXANS in one category is just as much BS as these proposed laws and policies.

FYI: I never voted for Perry and will never vote for Perry. Hell, I'm not even Republican…

agreed 150%!!!

Yep! How many pol's [Rep and Dem] have been caught in gay relations with male pages, et