Texas GOP advances ‘reparative therapy’ for gays
By Associated Press, Updated: Friday, June 6, 2:54 AM
FORT WORTH, Texas The Texas Republican Party would endorse psychological treatment that seeks to turn gay people straight under a new platform partly aimed at rebuking laws in California and New Jersey that ban so-called reparative therapy on minors.
A push to include the new anti-gay language survived a key vote late Thursday in Fort Worth at the Texas Republican Convention where, across the street, tea party star U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz fired up attendees at a rally to defend marriage as between a man and a woman.
Under the new proposed plank, the Texas GOP will recognize the legitimacy and efficacy of counseling, which offers reparative therapy and treatment for those patients seeking healing and wholeness from their homosexual lifestyle.
The full convention of nearly 10,000 delegates from across Texas will take a final vote on the platform Saturday.
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