Articles tagged: Texas GOP platform
Proposed GOP Platform Calls for Trans Bathroom Ban, Constitutional Convention
A secession plank didn't make it into the document, but could make a reappearance on the floor Friday.
The GOP's running with Gov. Greg Abbott's call for a constitutional convention, and has doubled down on anti-LGBTQ planks in this year's proposed platform....Read More
Dan Patrick Karaoke, Cruz’s Return and Everything Else You Missed at #RPT16
Three days of mourning Ted Cruz's presidential bid and hollering about bathrooms.
The Texas Observer staff is live on the ground in Dallas for the 2016 Texas Republican convention, gathering news and views on Trump, Cruz and more....Read More
GOP Panel Retools, but Doesn’t Remove, ‘Ex-Gay’ Therapy from State Platform
State convention delegates will vote later on whether to approve the change.
Delegates at the state convention must still vote to approve the language concerning therapy that attempts to change sexual orientation....Read More
Meet the ‘Ex-Gay’ Man Behind the Texas GOP’s Reparative Therapy Plank
The man who authored a plank endorsing reparative therapy in the Texas GOP platform has been identified as Jeremy Schwab, the founder of an ex-gay ministry. ...Read More