Republicans in Texas adopted a party platform over the weekend that rejects the results of the 2020 presidential election, calls homosexuality “an abnormal lifestyle choice” and rebukes GOP senators who recently negotiated a bipartisan gun agreement.
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The party approved the unfounded and debunked election fraud allegations while calling on all Republicans to “ensure election integrity.”
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Despite this evidence, the Texas GOP said it rejected the results of the election and “hold that acting President Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was not legitimately elected by the people of the United States.”
The move comes amid a series of congressional hearings by a bipartisan select committing investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capital. The hearings have presented a case that blames Trump for inciting an alleged insurrection attempt to overthrow the results of the general election.
The party also adopted the policy that “homosexuality is an abnormal lifestyle choice” and that it opposes “all efforts to validate transgender identity.”
“We believe there should be no granting of special legal entitlements or creation of special status for homosexual behavior, regardless of state of origin, and we oppose any criminal or civil penalties against those who oppose homosexuality out of faith, conviction or belief in traditional values,” it states.”