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http://www.texasgop.org/library/RPTPlatform2004.pdf
Religious Freedom
* "The Republican Party of Texas affirms that the United States of America is a Christian nation."
* "Our Party pledges to exert its influence to restore the original intent of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and dispel the myth of the separation of Church and State."
* The 2004 party platform opposes efforts to restrict display of the Ten Commandments and other religious symbols in government buildings and other places maintained by tax dollars.
Civil/Equal Rights
* Republicans state that it should be a felony to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple "and for any civil official to perform a marriage ceremony for a same-sex couple."
* Defining marriage as a "God-ordained, legal and moral commitment only between a natural man and a natural woman," the platform supports a federal constitutional amendment that bans same-sex marriage and opposes "granting of benefits to people who represent themselves as domestic partners without
being legally married."
* The platform opposes hate-crime laws (which increase penalties for crimes that target people based on hatred for their religion, race, sexual orientation and other characteristics).
* The platform supports "covenant marriage" (which endangers battered spouses because it would allow couples to divorce only after a waiting period and counseling, even in cases of domestic abuse) and advocates rescinding no-fault divorce laws.
* The platform condemns homosexuality, supports criminalizing sexual relations between consenting adults of the same sex and calls on Congress to "withhold jurisdiction from the federal courts from cases involving sodomy" (an implicit criticism of last year's U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that overturned sodomy laws).
* The platform opposes the adoption of children or foster parenting by gay men and lesbians.
* The party supports laws that bar Child Protective Services from
removing an abused child from his or her home, even in cases of "immediate danger to the child's physical health or safety."
* The platform calls for requiring people who report child abuse to identify themselves and their contact information.
* The state party platform calls for a ban on stem-cell research (which experts believe holds the promise of cures for a variety of diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's).
Public Education
* The party calls for schools to emphasize "Judeo-Christian principles" and for including Bible-based "theories" like "intelligent design" about the origin of humans in science textbooks.
* Republicans support health education that promotes abstinence from sex "until heterosexual marriage with an uninfected person" and oppose any other instruction on methods of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Pornography
* The Party believes, as do the vast majority of Texans, that pornography is repulsive, addictive and contributes to deviant criminal behavior. It exploits men, women, and children and degrades society as a whole. We call upon our governmental bodies to enforce existing laws regarding all forms of pornography in our music, film, telephone, computer, video, cable, satellite, television, radio, Internet, and print industries. We must have more stringent legislation to prohibit access to and generation of pornography including virtual pornography and operation of sexually–oriented businesses.
*We support the efforts of Attorney General John Ashcroft in working with Congress on creating appropriate legislation and applaud his efforts at protecting our children and society.
http://www.texasgop.org/library/RPTPlatform2004.pdf
Religious Freedom
* "The Republican Party of Texas affirms that the United States of America is a Christian nation."
* "Our Party pledges to exert its influence to restore the original intent of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution and dispel the myth of the separation of Church and State."
* The 2004 party platform opposes efforts to restrict display of the Ten Commandments and other religious symbols in government buildings and other places maintained by tax dollars.
Civil/Equal Rights
* Republicans state that it should be a felony to issue a marriage license to a same-sex couple "and for any civil official to perform a marriage ceremony for a same-sex couple."
* Defining marriage as a "God-ordained, legal and moral commitment only between a natural man and a natural woman," the platform supports a federal constitutional amendment that bans same-sex marriage and opposes "granting of benefits to people who represent themselves as domestic partners without
being legally married."
* The platform opposes hate-crime laws (which increase penalties for crimes that target people based on hatred for their religion, race, sexual orientation and other characteristics).
* The platform supports "covenant marriage" (which endangers battered spouses because it would allow couples to divorce only after a waiting period and counseling, even in cases of domestic abuse) and advocates rescinding no-fault divorce laws.
* The platform condemns homosexuality, supports criminalizing sexual relations between consenting adults of the same sex and calls on Congress to "withhold jurisdiction from the federal courts from cases involving sodomy" (an implicit criticism of last year's U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that overturned sodomy laws).
* The platform opposes the adoption of children or foster parenting by gay men and lesbians.
* The party supports laws that bar Child Protective Services from
removing an abused child from his or her home, even in cases of "immediate danger to the child's physical health or safety."
* The platform calls for requiring people who report child abuse to identify themselves and their contact information.
* The state party platform calls for a ban on stem-cell research (which experts believe holds the promise of cures for a variety of diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's).
Public Education
* The party calls for schools to emphasize "Judeo-Christian principles" and for including Bible-based "theories" like "intelligent design" about the origin of humans in science textbooks.
* Republicans support health education that promotes abstinence from sex "until heterosexual marriage with an uninfected person" and oppose any other instruction on methods of preventing pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases.
Pornography
* The Party believes, as do the vast majority of Texans, that pornography is repulsive, addictive and contributes to deviant criminal behavior. It exploits men, women, and children and degrades society as a whole. We call upon our governmental bodies to enforce existing laws regarding all forms of pornography in our music, film, telephone, computer, video, cable, satellite, television, radio, Internet, and print industries. We must have more stringent legislation to prohibit access to and generation of pornography including virtual pornography and operation of sexually–oriented businesses.
*We support the efforts of Attorney General John Ashcroft in working with Congress on creating appropriate legislation and applaud his efforts at protecting our children and society.
