Dem Chair Hinojosa suggests `reparative therapy’ for tea party “crazies”
DALLAS —
Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa said Friday that the Democratic State Convention will offer Texas voters a stark and reassuring alternative to the Republican “crazies” who held their convention in Fort Worth earlier this month. He suggested that Democrats meeting at the Dallas Convention Center Friday and Saturday may want to consider adding a “reparative therapy plank for tea party Republicans.”
“We live in the year 2014,” said Hinojosa, a year that he suggested did not comport with the thinking behind a plank adopted by the Republican State Convention endorsing “reparative therapy” as a way to help people out of homosexuality, a plank that has even draw criticism from GOP State Party Chairman Steve Munisteri.
But Hinojosa, speaking to the convention’s Asian Caucus, said what he characterized as the Republican Party’s throwback approach on homosexuality was of a piece with the rest of the platform on issues from abortion rights to global warming to its call for reducing spending on education at all levels.
He said that when Texans see the candidates showcased at the Democratic convention and “compare them to the crazies running on the Republican side,” they will see there is “no comparison.”
More at http://www.statesman.com/news/news/state-regional-govt-politics/dem-chair-hinojosa-suggests-reparative-therapy-for/ngThr/ .
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