What the fuck is wrong with Texas Republicans?

 Seriously, they are the single most backwards thinking people outside of Mississippi republicans.... It seems that they want to abolish critical thinking, because that might harm children's "Fixed beliefs"..You know, superstitions and racism....

In a document  that outlines their platform, it becomes frighteningly clear:

The Republicans it seems are against government interference and demanding strict adherence to the original intent of both the U.S. and Texas Constitutions. They then proceed immediately to the sanctity of a fertilized egg and the end of a woman's right to privacy regarding her reproductive health. They acrobatically flip between a fierce belief in the freedom of choice and demanding limits on that freedom. They have decided to tell Texans, exactly what constitutes a family. Families must consist of the marriage of a "natural" man and a "natural" woman.
Period.
Lest we think that the "un-naturals" have any legitimate rights or choices. Number 11 on the rambling preamble list makes no sense, but gives an insight to the dominionist ideology presented here:

    11) "The laws of nature and nature's God" as our Founding Father's Believed.

 They are also screeching for more border security, and against Washington D.C. becoming a state. In no particular order they are also against:
Executive Orders
Affirmative Action
The Voter Rights Act
The Employment Non-Discrimination Act
Campaign Finance Reform

And a host of other things including flag desecration. Flag desecration it seems is far more important to Texas Republicans than education, because education is mentioned four pages later. After a few more demands such as the return of plaques honoring the Confederate Widow's Pension Fund, they get down to the telling their constituents what constitutes a family.

The next four pages go into fine detail just exactly what a family is and is not. According to the Republicans a family consists of those related by blood, heterosexual marriage or adoption. That's it.

Domestic Partnerships do not count! Gay or straight, kids or no kids, you are not and can not be considered a family.

Period.

On the subject of gays they let their bigot flags fly!: " Homosexuality tears at the fabric of society and contributes to the breakdown of the family."

Not only can gays never be a family or have a family other than the one they were born into, they are said to be directly responsible for tearing families apart...Based on I am sure "Biblical facts".....

From here they go into insane ramblings around all things "life" related for three pages and it is a tough read to be sure. They want to repeal Roe v. Wade, ban stem cell research and go on a tear against Title X, Public Health Services and Medicaid.

I was already deciding that these were the most corrupt, bigoted moronic folks to ever walk the Earth when suddenly,  there it was... a statement repudiating "Human Trafficking." OK,  we can agree on that.  The practice of selling young usually poor, usually minority girls into prostitution must absolutely be abolished.

Next he Texas Republicans address the matter of health care by promoting self-sufficiency in all things. This sounds good on paper and would be quite noble if it was even possible. Of course this asinine mentality has resulted in Texas leading the way, "NUMBER 1!! in uninsured children and adults and last in everything else.
50 out of 50...Not exactly a "Great State"....

As for their ideas about education, they start of...START OFF! Demanding that students should pledge allegiance to the American and Texas flags. They want career and technology programs, corporal punishment and equal treatment of "all" sides of scientific theories around things like life origins and environmental change; you know, the science side and the religious or the current corporate side.

I get it, calling for measures that will indoctrinate children with their preferred religious and social values. No surprise there, but the next two points of the Republican agenda are mind boggling... Really pull down your pants and slide on the ice kind of mind boggling . As in put down your beverage or you might do a "spit-take", loony tunes!
This is a direct quote from their PDF, because you have to read it to fucking  believe it.

    "We believe that parents are best suited to train their children in their early development and oppose mandatory pre-school and kindergarten. We urge Congress to repeal government sponsored programs that deal with early childhood development. "

And the second point will cause any reasonable thinking person to just stroke out:

    "We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student's fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."

For fuck sake!!! Isn't that the entire POINT OF AN EDUCATION?

Again, this is Texas....Where they rewrote their history textbooks to more coincide with current conservative Christian ideology, as opposed to historical facts...But this is the Religious Reich's real goal, a nation of indoctrinated Christian simpletons who believe that the Founders were all Evangelical Christian Ministers, and Free Market, Prosperity Gospel, Capitalists.

Thank you Mr. Reagan for bringing these dingbats into government, and blurring the lines between Church and State, you and your followers and their Randian bullshit set this country into a flaming death spiral, and lowered the bar enough so that a man, who had no real talents other than baseball and stubbornness to rise to the highest office in America.

He was a Texan...Go figure.