Texas Republicans Adopt Astonishingly Extreme Party Platform
This not a Sovereign Citizen manifesto issued by some drunken crackpot in a rundown compound on the fringes of Lubbock, it is the official platform of the largest and most powerful political organization in the state:
The main theme of the Texas Republican platform this year is nullification and destruction of everything they oppose, including women’s rights, ethnic diversity, comprehensive sex education, LGBT rights, the separation of church and state, voting rights, and the federal government.
Right off the bat, Texas Republicans began their platform document with a preamble pledging their belief in God and and went on to list adherence to “the laws of nature” as a principle – even though the Constitution makes no such references. But it only got worse from there. Texas Republicans openly called for nullifying federal laws and ignoring the rulings of federal courts:
Federally mandated legislation, which infringes upon the 10th Amendment rights of Texas, should be ignored, opposed, refused, and nullified. Regulation of Commerce in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution has exceeded the original intent. All attempts by the federal judiciary to rule in areas not expressly enumerated by the Untied States Constitution should be likewise nullified. Any federal enforcement activities that do occur in Texas should be conducted under the authority of the county sheriff.
They openly called for eliminating several critical federal agencies which handle labor unions, healthcare, tax revenue collection, and illegal drugs and firearms:
We oppose the appointment of unelected bureaucrats and we support defunding and abolishing the departments or agencies of the Internal Revenue Service, Education, Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Commerce, Health and Human Services, Labor, and Interior (specifically, the Bureau of Land Management), Transportation Security Administration, Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and National Labor Relations Board.
It only gets nuttier as it delves into social issues. The GOP naturally supports creationism and opposes sex education in public schools, condemns homosexuality in Biblical terms, and calls for an absolute ban on abortion. They also call climate change a hoax, demand “English only,” and top it all by calling for the repeal of the Voting Rights Act.
This amazing document can be viewed in full here.
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