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At the same time I'm pondering what the "other side of the coin" as you say has banned for me.

Well, drugs for one. Thanks to your wonderful Supreme Court, my back yard is now in another state. Go ahead, rant about regulations making medicine expensive, the Republicans won't touch the FDA because Schedule I is the only thing standing between you and an army of stoned zombies.

Pornography for another. Romney's made his position pretty clear. Oh that's right, the First Amendment "doesn't include obscenity"... wait, which amendment gave the federal government the power to decide something is obscene and not worthy of the 1st's protection?

Best part: banning drugs and porn because they are bad for you is exactly the same as banning large sodas because they are bad for you and banning smoggy trucks because they are bad for you. The exact same unconstitutional process in every case, except that when New York bans Big Gulps, they're not beholden to the US Constitution in the same way when the federal government does it.

If all you can point to is gay marriage

Read: "Banning things I don't like is ok. Banning things I like is wrong!" See also sodas and CAFE standards.

Also, you forgot to mention abortion, sodomy in general (both hetero- and homosexual, my theory is that Republicans can't get a blow job so they don't want anyone else to either, my guess is that Anthony Kennedy was getting some good lovin' in the privacy of his own home), protests, and so on.

Did I mention that Texas Republicans want to do away with your first amendment right to petition the government for redress of grievances by appealing violations of your rights to the Supreme Court? It's right there on Page 4-5:

Further, we urge Congress to withhold Supreme Court jurisdiction in cases involving abortion, religious freedom, and the Bill of Rights

It's a fully Constitutional power, that hasn't been used since the president every Republican loves to hate, Abraham Lincoln, had Congress use it in order to prevent people he was detaining from being able to appeal to the courts for habeas corpus. But hey, you weren't planning on to trying to appeal any gun laws on 2nd amendment grounds anyway, amirite?

Even if what you wrote about the Texas Republican Party was true, which I highly doubt

Further, we urge Congress to withhold Supreme Court jurisdiction in cases involving abortion, religious freedom, and the Bill of Rights

"Remedies to Activist Judiciary", starting around the bottom of the page numbered "P-4".

it would take national level action

Led by a nationally relevant Texas Republican.

Charter schools are not a panacea.

http://www.tfn.org/site/DocServer/Charter_Schools_Report-FINAL.pdf?docID=163

Your only chance this round to help at all is to vote with Republicans or other conservatives

Further, we urge Congress to withhold Supreme Court jurisdiction in cases involving abortion, religious freedom, and the Bill of Rights.

-- Texas Republicans, 2012 Platform, pg. 5

Good luck with that.

It was in the PDF available from the Texas GOP website.

They have since tried to distance themselves from it, but left it standing, because somehow they can't go back and remove it because of "rules."

The thing about the platform document is not just the critical thinking paragraph, it's the xenophobia and outright tinfoil haberdashery and millinery in the rest of the document. The opposition to critical thinking fits right in and completes the document.

I suggest you read the Texas GOP platform document itself. It's a laugh riot. You can't download it from the Texas GOP site anymore, because I guess someone figured out that actually publishing your stupid ideas and people identifying them as stupid leads to a backlash.

So let's go with this.

http://www.tfn.org/site/DocServer/2012-Platform-Final.pdf?docID=3201

Read. It doesn't disappoint. It's even more crazy than the 2008 platform.

Be fuckin' amazed that people actually think like this.

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BMO

Not like they affect how he runs the state? How about appointing a creationist to head the State Board of Education, and change the English and science mandates for religious reasons?

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/DN-sboe_18tex.ART.State.Edition1.3bba4d6.html

http://www.tfn.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5125

You know its funny ... I used to call myself Christian but I can't anymore becuase it has become a poisoned religion by the likes of the so called "Christian" conservatives, religous right. I think the same thing can be said of the Republican party, it has become poisoned by these same groups, touting "family values" that never used to be family values.

Christian conservatives/Christian fundamentalists are identical in every way to Islamic Fundamentalists except for the suicide bombings. I guess you could say the Christians aren't as dedicated to their cause or have as much an incentive to sacrifice themselves as their Islamic counterparts. Anyone who does not believe this has been brainwashed by these same Christian Conservatives/Fundamentalists into thinking they are mainstream. They are NOT mainstream in any sense of the word. The ultimate goal of many Christian Conservatives is to make the USA a theocracy/ theonomic/ dominionistic nation:

http://www.theocracywatch.org/

http://wlo.org/ccwatch/

http://tfn.org/religiousright/

The most frightening examples of this ultimate ultra-conservative Christianity is Christian Reconstructionism who I like to think more of as Christian Talbian:

http://www.religioustolerance.org/reconstr.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Reconstruct ionism

http://www.theocracywatch.org/yurica_weyrich_manua l.htm

Anyone who under-estimates these powerful polictical forces and their re-making of the Republican party is being hoodwinked.