2014 protect state/church separation in Hawaii: Vote “No” on Amendment 4 - Freedom From Religion Foundation

On Nov. 4 voters in Hawaii will decide whether the state should use public money to fund private preschool programs, including religious preschools. The proposed amendment—CON AMEND: Relating to Early Childhood Education—would amend Section 1 of Article X of the Constitution of Hawaii to allow the appropriation of public funds “for the support or benefit of private early childhood education programs,” including religious programs. The state constitution currently prohibits the use of public tax dollars to benefit private schools.

Many Hawaiian preschools are faith-based, housed in places of worship, and include sectarian curricula, teaching, and instruction. In funding these preschool programs, the state, in essence, would be paying private religious institutions to indoctrinate children far too young to decide religious issues for themselves.


2014 protect state/church separation in Hawaii: Vote “No” on Amendment 4 - Freedom From Religion Foundation

Barton: 'If You Choose Not To Vote, That's The Same As Casting Your Vote For Evil' | Right Wing Watch

"This is serious business, man," Copeland declared and Barton was entirely in agreement, adding his own warning that those who do not vote candidates who oppose abortion rights will be held just as accountable as those who vote for pro-choice ones.

Not voting for anti-abortion candidates "keeps you from being on the life platform," Barton said. "There is only one place of life, any place else except that is not life. There's not a third choice. If you do nothing, you have not chosen life ... If you choose not to vote, that's the same as casting your vote for evil":
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/barton-if-you-choose-not-vote-thats-same-casting-your-vote-evil#sthash.vsKYxuoQ.dpuf

Barton: 'If You Choose Not To Vote, That's The Same As Casting Your Vote For Evil' | Right Wing Watch

Georgia Republican: State-sponsored religion will end big-government tyranny

Hice wholeheartedly endorsed Scalia’s remarks, in spite of the fact that the words “under God” were not added to the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance until it was more than 60 years old and in spite of the Constitution’s First Amendment’s Establishment Clause, which explicitly forbids the U.S. government from endorsing any religion.

“To be in the midst of a fight against secularists who are trying to impose on all of us that it is unconstitutional to acknowledge God and to honor God,” said Hice, “the secularists want to tell us that that’s unconstitutional. And Scalia is arguing that not only is that, in fact, constitutional, but it is in the best interests of who we are.”

“One of the biggest dangers that we are facing today,” Hice continued, “is judges who think that the Constitution is some sort of living document that changes with the times.”

This is a problem, Hice said, because for Americans to view the Constitution through “the lens of secularism” is not what God intended.

“Folks, that is problematic, that is an enormous danger,” said Hice.

“When it comes to the idea of religious liberty,” he said, “it is not constitutional for the state, if you will, just to be neutral towards religion.”

Religion, Hice said, is “an entrenched part of who we are” as Americans “and a necessary part of who we are.” God-fearing governments, he said, produce “a moral people who are self-governing of their own lives and thus don’t need the big arm of intrusive government all over us. Because we are self-governing people.”

“You remove God and you remove religion,” he said, “and you remove the state from encouraging religious belief and you get more secularism, you get more problems, you get more crime, you get all, whatever, fill in the blank out there.”

“End result,” Hice said, “you get bigger government.”

“Government has a responsibility to encourage religious belief,” he concluded, “because that is is the foundation, as I said earlier, of how limited government can exist.”

Georgia Republican: State-sponsored religion will end big-government tyranny

I'll just leave these here,,,

Phyllis Schlafly: Obama Intentionally Bringing In Ebola To Make America More Like Africa

In an interview with WorldNetDaily published today, Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly weighed in on the unfounded theory gaining traction in the right-wing media that Central American young people are to blame for an outbreak of a childhood respiratory illness in the U.S.

“There are all kinds of diseases in the rest of the world, and we don’t want them in this country,” Schlafly told WND, adding that “of all the things [Obama has] done, I think this thing of letting these diseased people into this country to infect our own people is just the most outrageous of all.”

She went on to imply that President Obama is intentionally allowing people infected with Ebola into the United States because he wants America to be “just like everybody else, and if Africa is suffering from Ebola, we ought to join the group and be suffering from it, too. That’s his attitude.”

Gordon Klingenschmitt's Embarrassing Campaign Rolls On

Ever since he won the Republican primary and became the official GOP nominee for an open seat in the Colorado state legislature, Gordon Klingenschmitt has proven himself to be a complete embarrassment to his party as party officials and fellow Republicans have repeatedly denounced him.

The state GOP has quickly learned that having a radical Religious Right activist and anti-gay exorcist as its candidate is creating nothing but headaches since Klingenschmitt seems to have no idea what he is doing, as he demonstrated once again when he recently told local residents who asked to meet with him to discuss his rabidly anti-gay views that he would not do so until after the election and even then, he'd only be willing to meet after screening them because he fears for this safety:

Michael Savage: Obama Should Be Called 'Obola,' Will Destroy America With Abe Lincoln Praise

Michael Savage took to “The Steve Malzberg Show” today to promote his new book, “Stop the Coming Civil War,” and expound on his conspiracy theory that President Obama is deliberately infecting Americans with Ebola.

“The fact of the matter is, in two more years we’re not going to survive,” Savage said of the Obama presidency. “He has been conducting a civil war on America’s institutions from the day he seized power. But it’s not just him. Take a look at the people surrounding him, ‘the four horsewomen of the apocalypse,’ they’re all thirty, forty years radicals on the left, that’s what they’re doing, they’re achieving their revolutionary goals right in front of our eyes.”

Linda Harvey: Fight 'Evil' Gay Marriage With 'Civil Disobedience'

“This is attempted theft of what God has ordained and our Lord will not honor this lawlessness,” Harvey said. “Allowing homosexuality to become normal in America may certainly be part of God’s judgment on our once-Christian nation for our irresponsible sexual practices and for turning our back on what the Lord has taught us. Even so, God will at some point allow the consequences of such defiance to play itself out and that will be a very tragic day indeed for those who have thumbed their noses at the Lord as they celebrate sin.”

Pat Buchanan: 'Massive Civil Disobedience' Needed To Fight 'Anti-Christian Discrimination'

Incensed with the Supreme Court’s recent decision to turn down appeals of several marriage equality rulings, Pat Buchanan fears that Americans, a “once-free people,” are now “under the rule of a judicial dictatorship.”

Buchanan writes in his syndicated column today that court rulings in favor of gay rights are just the latest in a long line of decisions that have “ordered the de-Christianization of all public institutions in what was a predominantly Christian country.”

“Secular humanism became, through Supreme Court edict, our established religion in the United States,” he said. “Why was there not massive civil disobedience against this anti-Christian discrimination, as there was against segregation?”

After praising opponents of desegregation busing for making “our black-robed radicals back down,” Buchanan quotes the pro-slavery, Confederate Army chaplain Robert Lewis Dabney's comments on “the failure of conservatives to halt the march of the egalitarians.”

GOP Congressional Candidate: Atheism, Post-Modernism Contributed To Sandy Hook Shooting

Zach Dasher, the cousin of the Duck Dynasty family who is challenging incumbent Republican Rep. Vance McAllister in Louisiana’s 5th Congressional district, once blamed atheism for the Sandy Hook school shooting.

Before running for Congress, Dasher was the proprietor of the website Willingtothink.org, which bills itself as a website and podcast “a website and podcast dedicated to encouraging folks to be willing to think about the deeper questions in life.”

“These children that were killed in Connecticut were made for purpose and to be honest with you even the killer himself was made for a purpose,” Dasher said on one podcast titled “Why did this happen,” which discussed the Sandy Hook shootings.

Dasher says the Adam Lanza, the shooter, was “made in the image of God” but started to believe “what the atheist says.”

“He was made in the image of God,” he said. “But somewhere along the way he believed what the atheist says. He reduced humanity to nothing more than a collection of atoms, to be discarded like an old banana peel. I guarantee you, now this is my hypothesis, that even saw himself as nothing more than chemicals.”

GOP Congressional Candidate: Atheism, Post-Modernism Contributed To Sandy Hook Shooting

Free Speech Exercised, Tested At UK's Constitution Day | WUKY

So I was doing a bit of digging on Robert "With Jews We Lose" Ransdell and found this gem. Only issue, I'm not sure what aspect of this entire incident is the stupidest - Ransdell's racist rant or the "initial" response from UK Rural Journalism director Al Cross.

The right of free speech was tested however with the appearance of U-S Senate write-in candidate Robert Ransdell who used his allotted time to deliver a racist rant about the "Jewish-owned and controlled media," as well as to "stress the need for this nation's white majority to recognize that they have ethnic interests," before having his microphone cut off by the sound crew.

The horrified high school teachers then hustled their students to their respective buses, prompting this rejoinder from UK Rural Journalism director Al Cross.

"You've just witnessed in this hall a laboratory experiment about the extent and nature of free speech. I think most of you found the remarks of the write-in candidate deeply offensive, however in this country people do have the right to speak, even if their views are offensive. Now organizations can have their own rules about how much access they are going to give people like that but they do have a right to speak," Cross said.

And yes, there are First Amendment issues involved which I may address later on.


Free Speech Exercised, Tested At UK's Constitution Day | WUKY

A Neo-Nazi Is Running For The Kentucky Senate On The Slogan 'With Jews We Lose' - The New Civil Rights Movement

Ransdell isn’t only anti-Semitic, he’s a white supremacist. Ransdell laid out his campaign promises on the website Stormfront.org.

“The purpose of this campaign is for it to serve as a medium for pro-White/White Nationalist ideas and principles. The campaign will attempt to expose as many White people as possible to the facts regarding the Jewish role in America's decline as well as highlight the destructive effects that multiculturalism, diversity, and political correctness have had on this country,” he wrote. “This campaign will not simply rest on informing people of the truth but will aim to inspire the people who are reached to work toward solutions to the problems Whites in America face today, solutions that the campaign will provide with much resolve and candor."

Ransdell’s platform is listed on The Renegade Tribune. It includes gems such as “eliminating all foreign aid to non-White third world nations,” solving the “Muslim terror threat” by ending all support to Israel and then deporting all Muslims back to the “Arab world,” and solving the immigration crisis by “adopting a shoot on sight policy.”

A Neo-Nazi Is Running For The Kentucky Senate On The Slogan 'With Jews We Lose' - The New Civil Rights Movement

GOP Chair: Klingenschmitt comments on Polis, ISIS ‘don’t reflect’ Republicans as a whole | kdvr.com

Good ole Gordon "Chap My Lips" Klingenschmitt is at it again. Not sure which is worse, his original statement or his non-apology.

Klingenchmitt, the House Republican candidate for District 15 in El Paso County, is an evangelist of sorts who Democrats have targeted of late.

He wrote in his Pray in Jesus Name Project newsletter about Polis’s work on non-discrimination legislation over the weekend.

“The openly homosexual Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO) introduced a revised bill to force Christian employers and business owners to hire and promote homosexuals with ZERO RELIGIOUS EXEMPTIONS for Christians who want to opt out.

“Polis ‘wants sexual orientation and gender identity treated the same way as race, religion, sex, and national origin, when it comes to employment protections,’ claims the Advocate, under the headline “Polis trims ENDA’s religious exemption.

“Dr. Chaps’ comment: The open persecution of Christians is underway. Democrats like Polis want to bankrupt Christians who refuse to worship and endorse his sodomy. Next he’ll join ISIS in beheading Christians, but not just in Syria, right here in America.”

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Late Monday, Klingenschmitt himself offered an explanation for the comments and an apology in a YouTube video.

“I used hyperbole,” Klingenschmitt said, before going on to explain what hyperbole is and to challenge Polis to the ALS ice bucket challenge.

The danger in this type of rhetoric, Klingenschmitt is not joking. Not too long ago, the "roles" were reversed, it was him calling for the death of homosexuals when (incorrectly) citing Romans 1:32 in reference to the Christian photographer fiasco.

Conservative Christians like Klingenschmitt will never escape the faux feeling of persecution; the martyr complex is central to their identity. By spouting crap like this all he succeeds in doing is riling up his base giving them a false target for their angst. Think about it, how can anyone take him seriously when day after day he "blames" demons for everything wrong in the world.

GOP Chair: Klingenschmitt comments on Polis, ISIS ‘don’t reflect’ Republicans as a whole | kdvr.com

Sen. John Walsh Drops Out Of Senate Race

Sen. John Walsh (D-MT) has decided to drop out of the race for U.S. Senate, he announced on Thursday.

"I am ending my campaign so that I can focus on fulfilling the responsibility entrusted to me as your U.S. senator," Walsh said. "You deserve someone who will always fight for Montana, and I will."

Walsh's decision follows a report in The New York Times in July which said that Walsh plagiarized significant parts of his master's thesis.

Since then Walsh had reportedly been trying to decide whether to continue running in the race or not. Even before the plagiarism story broke Walsh had an uphill battle to victory and faced a formidable challenge in Rep. Steve Daines, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate.

According to National Journal, Walsh announced his decision to drop out in a call with staffers. His wife was "openly sobbing" while she thanked members of Walsh's campaign, National Journal said.

Sen. John Walsh Drops Out Of Senate Race

Minnesota House candidate makes AIDS, 'Gay Agenda' campaign issues | MinnPost

With Michele Bachmann and Bradlee Dean in your corner, who gives a fuck about science. This here is 'merika and truth doesn't matter.

But on a serious note, remember the "15 per cent solution" brought up in a previous posting? Here is a prime example of it at work in Minnesota.

The formula they've concocted has been called the "15 per cent solution" by the Christian Coalition. Even in a well attended presidential election, only 15 per cent of eligible voters determine the outcome,,, "We don't have to worry about convincing a majority of Americans to agree with us," Guy Rodgers, the Christian Coalition's national field director declared at the 1991 Road to Victory conference. Most of them are staying home and watching Falcon Crest."

One candidate is focused on the "real issues of - education, transportation, taxes." Whilst the other has chosen the road of hot button social issues, counting on that all important 15 percent.

Frey says he’s also talking about business and taxes. He says education is a particular passion, developed while working with then-state senator Michele Bachmann to defeat the “profiles in learning” education platform.

But when questioned about his position on social issues, Frey added that it “does certainly need to be addressed for what it is. It’s not about the gay agenda but about the science and the financial impact of that agenda. It’s more about sodomy than about pigeonholing a lifestyle.”

Frey then explained his view: “When you have egg and sperm that meet in conception, there’s an enzyme in the front that burns through the egg. The enzyme burns through so the DNA can enter the egg. If the sperm is deposited anally, it's the enzyme that causes the immune system to fail. That’s why the term is AIDS – acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.”

(This explanation of AIDS has no scientific validity, but it may strike a familiar chord: It is essentially the same one given by Bob's son, Mike Frey, in testimony given before the House Civil Law Committee last year during the debate over gay marriage.)

Of the financial impact, Bob Frey says, “It’s about sodomy. It’s huge amounts of money. AIDS is a long term illness, causing pain, suffering, death, a long-term illness that’s very expensive to treat.”

Minnesota House candidate makes AIDS, 'Gay Agenda' campaign issues | MinnPost

Oklahoma Hu-Man Loses GOP Primary To Android Or Replicant Or Lizard Person (Unclear)

This story line was shared by a friend who has similar interests as I. After his posting, we engaged in a lengthy conversation where we pondered the source of such delusional thinking (and I do mean delusional) and where we think it is leading humanity as a whole. Two hours later I don't think we came to any solid conclusions, though it was a fun conversation. That aside, I haven't been able to shake this story from my mind - this guy had a campaign office, ran a campaign which he ultimately lost, had supporters and donors. People can't be this dumb in real life, or can they?

Even if you remove the obvious references to sovereign citizen ideology we are left with this.

Yep. He accuses his opponents of being replicants, or perhaps zombies or golems. The exact technology hasn’t yet been identified, but they are NOT who they claim to be. See, here’s what happened:

Rep. Frank Lucas, and a few other Oklahoma and other States’ Congressional Members were depicted as being executed by The World Court on or about Jan. 11, 2011 in Southern Ukraine. On television they were depicted as being executed by the hanging about the neck until death on a white stage and in front of witnesses. Other now current Members of Congress have shared those facts on television also. We know that it is possible to use look alike artificial or manmade replacements, however Rep. Lucas was not eligible to serve as a Congressional Member after that time.

The World knows the truth and We must always display and communicate the truth. I will always share public information with the truth when honored to serve as your Representative.

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Sadly, in Tuesday’s primary, it appears that the nonhuman replacement for the late Frank Lucas was able to fool — or hypnotize — 83% of the voters, while certified human Timothy D. Murray was only able to get 5% of the vote. The only scrap of good news here is that, with the electoral success of Lucas and apparently several other androids, the United states has clearly surpassed Japanese android technology.

One point the Wonkette story doesn't highlight,,,

Murray claims the Defense Department is in on the scheme and it isn't the first time a human political candidate has been replaced with an artificially intelligent look-alike:

This is a situation similar to the Senators’ from Kentucky situation in the 2012 election. I am contesting that this matter has happen since his election was blocked, because of the U.S. Defense Department’s use of Mr. Murray’s DNA. To my knowledge, the U.S. Defense Department has not released to the public that information, as it is their confidential information about many people. Congress is likely wanting me to state that all my DNA used will not result in benefits to people I have never had relations with of a family nature. I have been bound to protect that information unless it causes harm to The People.

And if the scenario below sounds vaguely familiar, it should. A point made by a comment over on PZ Myer's blog Pharyngula, it was part of the plot of Eddie Murphy's 1992 movie A Distinguished Gentleman. 

A Florida con man named Thomas Jefferson Johnson uses the passing of the longtime Congressman from his district, Jeff Johnson (who died of a heart attack while having sex with his secretary), to get elected to the United State Congress as a freshman Congressman, where the money flows from lobbyists. Omitting his first name, and abbreviating his middle name, he calls himself "Jeff" Johnson. He then manages to get on the ballot by pitching a seniors organization, the Silver Foxes, to nominate him as their candidate for office.

Once on the election ballot, he uses the dead Congressman's old campaign material and runs a low budget campaign that appeals to name recognition, figuring most people do not pay much attention and simply vote for the "name you know." He wins a slim victory and is off to Washington, a place where the "streets are lined with gold."

Oklahoma Hu-Man Loses GOP Primary To Android Or Replicant Or Lizard Person (Unclear)

Felony convictions linked to sexual fetish 'haunt me,' Saginaw state House candidate says | MLive.com

Jordan D. Haskins cannot own a firearm. For the majority of his adult life, he could neither vote nor serve on a jury.

But a checkered past that includes stints in prison systems in two states and his current status as a parolee does not preclude the 24-year-old Saginaw man from running for office.

Haskins says he knows his criminal record works against him, but he's undeterred.

"Those are things that haunt me to this day," Haskins said. "I'm just trying to move on from that and do what I can."

Haskins' criminal charges stem from trespassing on private and public property in four cases from April 2010 to January 2011, when he was sent to prison. As part of the break-ins, he started vehicles to facilitate an uncommon sexual fetish Haskins called "cranking" in interviews with police.

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Haskins said his crimes focused mainly on breaking into cars and joyriding.

"I was just a lonely, angry kid at the time," he said. "If anything, I could be put on 'World's Dumbest Criminals.'"

Haskins said he was drawn to criminal behavior for the "the thrill."

"I was bored," he said. "It was the rush."

Haskins grew up in Saginaw and lived in Raleigh, North Carolina, from 2006 to 2010.

North Carolina's Department of Public Safety reports a lengthy list of sentences to prison, county jail and probation for offenses Haskins committed in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. The offenses include breaking and entering, larceny and trespassing.

After moving to Michigan, Haskins faced multiple charges for similar offenses in 2010 and 2011.

Felony convictions linked to sexual fetish 'haunt me,' Saginaw state House candidate says | MLive.com

Wiccan Minister Kathryn Jones to Run for Office in Pennsylvania | The Wild Hunt

A political candidate who also happens to be a Wiccan minister; just as there are 15 or so members of Congress who happen to be doctors, numerous lawyers, and 5 denominational ministers. Being Wiccan, a doctor or a lawyer should mean nothing, but for many that is not the case. Many seems to forget that we should be voting for the person and what they can do for all their constituents, not for or against ones religion. What Jones brings is diversity, something much needed in the political landscape of today.

As Jones explains concerning her beliefs, "I didn't want to lead with my Faith, but I have been in the news locally for reasons other than running for office, and the Wiccan label was already out there. I have to work within the existing parameters....and I will do my best to honor Pagans and the Green Party.
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On June 7, Rev. Kathryn Jones, a Wiccan minister from Uniontown, Penn. announced her candidacy for state representative in the 51st District. Rev. Jones is running on the Green Party ticket against Democratic incumbent Timothy S. Mahoney. Although this will be her first time running for public office, Jones has had years of experience working around and with the structure of local politics.

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The 51st District of southwestern Pennsylvania is a region with a long coal mining history. It has been a Democratic stronghold for years. Rep. Mahoney has been the district’s state representative since 2006 and, before him, other Democrats have won the seat since 1969. Republicans do not even regularly offer opposition. Jones says that if she doesn’t run, Rep. Mahoney will run unopposed once again.

For years Jones herself was a Democrat but, over time, she became disillusioned with the local political scene. She says, “The [region's] Democratic Party has done a disservice to our community and to the national Party in general.” She adds that they are “way too corrupt” and only want “perpetuate the status quo.”

Wiccan Minister Kathryn Jones to Run for Office in Pennsylvania | The Wild Hunt

Sally Atwater (R), Running for Superintendent of Education in SC, Can’t Answer Basic Education-Related Questions

There is nothing that I could say to make this story any "better" other don;t listen to the clip, you WILL lose about 50+ IQ points and want to vomit,,,

"Folks, I don’t want to be brutal. I don’t want to be mean. I just want to be realistic. What you have just heard is an example of a person running for public office, on name recognition only, who is clueless.

[Note: While in a different state, David Mech from the previous post, is way more qualified but probably will lose while this asswipe will win.]

Sally Atwater (R), Running for Superintendent of Education in SC, Can’t Answer Basic Education-Related Questions

Former porn star running for Palm Beach County school board | www.mypalmbeachpost.com

Hell I would move to Palm Beach County just to vote for this guy, "“I am running for the Palm Beach County School Board (District 3) to bring about fundamental change in areas where the current board is deficient. Once again, these areas include technology, innovation, equality, sex education, and secular values."

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Mech, who runs the Happy/Fun Math Tutor company, is better known for his former career as adult film actor Dave Pounder. In about 2010, Mech stopped performing in porn movies and started his math tutoring business but continued to own part of an adult movie production company called Dave Pounder Productions.

Last year, when parents learned of Mech’s prior porn career, they complained to the school district. The district took down banners that Mech had at several schools in the Boca area to get clients for his math tutoring business. According to a letter from then General Counsel Sheryl Wood to Mech: “Given that parents within the community have already made the connection between your tutoring business and your adult entertainment business, the principals had no choice but to remove your banners.”

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“A lot of people have issues with my background, but I don’t,” Mech said of whether his porn background would be a political liability in the race.

Mech, who has two doctorate degrees, said there was nothing illegal about his former participation in the adult film industry and he had innovative ideas to bring to the board.

“People can go to my Website (http://www.mechforpbcschools.com) and if they agree with the issues they can vote for me. If they don’t, they won’t vote for me,” he said.

Former porn star running for Palm Beach County school board | www.mypalmbeachpost.com

ADDENDUM::Anderson Cooper dismantles TX Republican’s defense of discredited ‘ex-gay therapy’

“The fact that you view being gay — or you characterize it — as a ‘mistake,’ or something that should be changed really kind of maybe says more about your position than what your words actually say."
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Hughes told Cooper that the language was adopted in response to concerns from a delegate’s neighbor that the therapy “might be taken away,” saying it had worked for him. Hughes did not identify the delegate who took the story to party leaders.

“The language is in the platform because we want to make sure that people have rights,” Hughes explained. “We heard from people who wanted access to that kind of counseling, that kind of therapy, and so we believe in free speech, in free choice.”

Cooper also pointed out to Hughes that Exodus International head Alan Chambers has disavowed and apologized for his organization’s work promoting this kind of “therapy,” and played a clip of Hughes saying that their work would “haunt” him until the day he died because of the damage it did making people feel God did not love them as they were.

“Does it concern you, again, that your party is now backing a form of therapy which basically every major medical organization says doesn’t work, can be harmful, and which many of the people who have been through it say it doesn’t work and is bad for kids?” Cooper asked.

Hughes reiterated that his party had “heard testimony” and “read reports” regarding the therapy’s benefits, but did take issue with Chambers’ point regarding religion.

Anderson Cooper dismantles TX Republican’s defense of discredited ‘ex-gay therapy’

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

GOP candidate for SC schools chief wants to teach ‘scientific theory of intelligent design’

“There is plenty of science and research behind the theory of intelligent design, and yet it is not allowed in the classroom,” Few added. “There is no reason why the scientific theory of intelligent design should not be taught in the classroom alongside the theory of evolution, and that way children would receive an objective education and they could also — for Christian children — could point to their God though the theory of intelligent design. Children need to have an objective education.”

GOP candidate for SC schools chief wants to teach ‘scientific theory of intelligent design’

Texas GOP candidate: It’s a ‘myth’ that Planned Parenthood does ‘anything’ for women’s health

I may be naive here, but since when is "making money" a goal of Planned Parenthood?

Dan Patrick, a Republican candidate for lieutenant governor in Texas, argued this week that the reason Planned Parenthood clinics were being forced to close throughout the state was because they did not have “anything” to do with women’s health.

During a Republican runoff debate between Patrick and current Lt. Governor David Dewhurst on Wednesday, WFAA moderators pointed out that only about six abortion clinics were able to remain open after the legislature passed strict new laws last year.

Patrick noted that, as a state senator, he had worked with Dewhurst to cut funding for Planned Parenthood.

“This is a myth that Planned Parenthood has anything to do with women’s health,” he opined. “Why are they closing clinics if they’re making money on providing women’s health? They’re closing clinics because they make all their money taking the lives of babies.”

[Yea well, I could interject here that it is a myth that the Reich cares about the same aforementioned babies or their mommas AFTER they are born.]

Patrick said that his goal was for Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion, to be “gone.”

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“Texas women are appalled by Dan Patrick’s deplorable statements on women’s health care providers,” Paul said. “158,345 Texans received preventative health care at Planned Parenthood in 2013. Republicans still don’t get it: just trust Texas women. Republicans need to trust us to make our own choices, to consult with our families and our doctors. Dan Patrick doesn’t trust Texas women, so Texas women can’t trust Dan Patrick as Lt. Governor.”

Texas GOP candidate: It’s a ‘myth’ that Planned Parenthood does ‘anything’ for women’s health

Senate Candidate Belittles His Opponent As Just A Young Woman Who Has No Life Experience | ThinkProgress

If this is an example of the "new" GOP training for winning over women voters, they have a serious problem. What it does show, the GOP/TP's 'war on women" is the real deal. The misogyny preached by the likes of Steven Anderson in action.
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Senate candidate Matt Bevin doesn’t think much of his potential Democratic opponent, Alison Lundergan Grimes. Dismissing her professed support of a minimum wage hike, her choice to make Medicare a central part of her campaign, or her background as a lawyer for domestic abuse victims, Bevin is now claiming Grimes has nothing to run on besides the fact that she is a young woman.

Bevin, the Tea Party Senate candidate putting a scare in Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) ahead of the May 20 primary, campaigned this week in western and central Kentucky. During a stop in Madisonville, Bevin argued that Grimes just runs on four things: “She’s young, she’s new, is a woman, and she’s not Mitch McConnell.”

“She’s a nice enough person,” he said, but when it comes to issues, vision, or life experience, “she really has none of the above on any of those fronts.”

Bevin also argued that it was “insulting” that Grimes, who has served as Kentucky’s Secretary of State since 2012, would expect that women would vote for her simply based on her gender.

Senate Candidate Belittles His Opponent As Just A Young Woman Who Has No Life Experience | ThinkProgress