Texas GOP adopts platform of erasing minorities by 'assimilation' into an 'American identity'

The Republican Party of Texas voted over the weekend to adopt a platform that, if enacted, would strip reproductive rights from women regardless of federal law, would serve to shame LGBT people for not living "an acceptable alternative lifestyle," and see minorities assume an "American identity."

As the Houston Press noted on Monday, the 26-page platform report was approved unanimously by every Republican state delegate on Friday.

Under the heading of "Strengthening Families, Protecting Life, and Promoting Health," the platform explains how state GOP lawmakers are expected to deny equal rights for LGBT people and to "abolish abortion."

"We call upon the Texas Legislature to enact legislation stopping the murder of unborn children; and to ignore and refuse to enforce any and all federal statutes, regulations, executive orders, and court rulings, which would deprive an unborn child of the right to life," the resolution states. "We support the elimination of public funding or the use of public facilities to advocate, perform, or support elective abortions, embryonic stem cell research, research on fetal tissue, or human cloning."

The platform sets a goal of "completely eliminating public funding for Planned Parenthood" and new "laws that restrict and regulate abortion."

Suggesting that the U.S. Supreme Court's decision legalizing same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, the platform calls on the "Governor and other elected officials of the state of Texas should assert our Tenth Amendment right and reject the Supreme Court ruling."

Sexual education for students should consist of "abstinence until marriage," and should not include "policies and curriculum that teach alternate lifestyles including homosexuality, transgender and other non-traditional lifestyles as normal," according to the party platform.

Additionally, the party calls for racial and ethnic groups to shed their cultural identities in favor of an "American identity."

"We favor strengthening our common American identity, which includes the contribution and assimilation of diverse racial and ethnic groups," the platform declares. "We encourage non-English speaking students to transition, via best practices, to English within one year, allowing them to quickly assimilate and succeed in American society."