Texas Republicans have decided on a platform that includes abolishing minimum wage, cancelling climate research, banning the teaching of evolution at schools, and repealing the voting rights act, among other things, but hilariously (or depressingly) the one thing on this laundry list that people are angry about is their plan to "rehabilitate" homosexuals, a practice that many say is harmful.
BBC News has more: http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27774102
(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday June 10 2014, @12:52PM
I think you're missing the point that the haters are mostly creationist christians who believe "biologically predetermined" = God made the decision not them.
Then step two of this strategy resembles my favorite scene from Bladerunner, the intro, you know the one with the HR drone interviewing the applicant / replicant?
"Yes. You're in a city, walking along the street when all of a sudden you look at the bathhouse and see a..."
"What city?"
"Doesn't make any difference what city... its completely hypothetical."
"But how come I'd be there?"
"Maybe you're fed up, maybe you want to be by yourself...who knows. So you look at the bathhouse sundeck and see Father God and Holy Jesus have created a gay."
"The gay that our Holy Father God and Sweet Baby Jesus created lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun... But you're hating it."
Leon's upper lip is quivering.
"Whatya means, I'm hating?"
"I mean you're hating! Why is that, Leon? Why do you hate the creation of our Holy Father God and his son Sweet Baby Jesus in violation of his word and disrespect of his actions? Are you implying you know better what is right and what is wrong than your own all knowing and all powerful creator, the same creator who created that gay? Are you implying you're better and more powerful than your own Holy Father?"
This has the obvious tasty analogy of the fictional replicant and the "real world" neocon both being somewhat subhuman, into gunplay and murder, a little slow in the head, angry and antisocial... its really a very good analogy.