The Texas Republican Party’s heartiest activists did their thing over the weekend, bringing an embarrassing spotlight to a state and party that should be touting Texas successes and what we can offer the nation.
Instead, what the world sees is backward and conspiratorial thinking among a few thousand convention delegates in Houston who seem determined to define the GOP down to its least-attractive elements.
The party appears to have voted to say in its platform — the party’s official, if often ignored, statement of beliefs and policy preferences — that homosexuality is an “abnormal lifestyle choice.”
