ADDENDUM::Texas GOP Platform Draft Endorses Gay Conversion Therapy

 More on the Texas GOP platform for 2014:

As the Houston Chronicle reports, the platform is far from completed. The draft is being amended by a committee of 31 delegates; the process is expected to wrap up late Thursday. Another group of delegates will then have to review that new draft, before the final document goes up for approval on the floor later this week.

Young Conservatives for the Freedom to Marry, a group of pro-marriage equality Republicans, is working to change the national Republican platform in 2016 and get rid of the anti-gay language.

Even before the Texas state GOP convention began, there was controversy surrounding the issue of gay rights.

Last week, Republican gay rights organizations called out the Texas Republican Party for denying them the chance to put up booths at the event.

State GOP chairman Steve Munisteri confirmed to The Huffington Post that the two groups, the Log Cabin Republicans and Metroplex Republicans, were denied space. The issue, he explained, is that their position runs counter to the current party platform. A policy was established at the last convention that groups wanting to set up booths can't advocate for positions that contradict the platform.

Besides LGBT issues, the Texas Republican Party platform draft opposes mandatory vaccinations, supports restricting abortion and backs "eliminating bureaucratic prohibitions on corporal discipline and home schooling in foster homes."

The only thing missing form this report is Benghazi:

“We call upon the United States House of Representatives to appoint a select committee and a special prosecutor in order to subpoena testimony to fully investigate all aspects of the Benghazi debacle, including,but not limited to, the reason Ambassador Stevens was in Benghazi; the denied assistance before and during the attack, the accounts of personnel who participated in the defense of the Embassy Annex, and the apparent attempt by the White House to deceive the American public with a concocted story about a spontaneous reaction to a YouTube video. We call for bringing those responsible to justice.”

Texas GOP Platform Draft Endorses Gay Conversion Therapy