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Source: Raw Story
The Republican Party of Texas voted over the weekend to adopt a platform that, if enacted, would strip reproductive rights from women regardless of federal law, would serve to shame LGBT people for not living an acceptable alternative lifestyle, and see minorities assume an American identity.
As the Houston Press noted on Monday, the 26-page platform report was approved unanimously by every Republican state delegate on Friday.
Under the heading of Strengthening Families, Protecting Life, and Promoting Health, the platform explains how state GOP lawmakers are expected to deny equal rights for LGBT people and to abolish abortion.
Additionally, the party calls for racial and ethnic groups to shed their cultural identities in favor of an American identity.
We favor strengthening our common American identity, which includes the contribution and assimilation of diverse racial and ethnic groups, the platform declares.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/05/texas-gop-adopts-platform-of-assimilation/