Roy "10 Commandments" Moore guest at Repuke convention

[NoPasaran]

The GOP convention will focus on this year's presidential and congressional races but will carry an undeniable undertone of future elections, particularly the 2006 GOP gubernatorial battle that could include some combination of Gov. Rick Perry, Comptroller Carole Keeton Strayhorn and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.

Delegates also will pick a state chairwoman, either incumbent Tina Benkiser, a Houston lawyer, or Gina Parker, a Waco lawyer. The State Republican Executive Committee last year made Benkiser interim chairwoman after Susan Weddington resigned.

Parker will bring a note of controversy to the convention Thursday night when former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore is the featured guest at a reception she is holding. Moore was removed from office last year after he defied a court order to take the Ten Commandments out of the Alabama Supreme Court building.

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The current platform includes a "Christian Nation" section in which the party "reaffirms the United States of America is a Christian nation which was founded on fundamental Judeo-Christian principles based on the Holy Bible," while also recognizing "the right of each individual to worship in the religion of his or her choice.

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[GOPisEvil]

1. Nice that they include a flat-out lie in their platform.

This country was NOT founded solely on Judeo-Christian beliefs. For crying out loud, Thomas Jefferson was not a Christian.

Talk about pandering, the Texas Republicans wrote the book.