Why I Can Never Vote Republican

For me there are more important reasons to vote for a party than economic reasons, moral and ethical reasons outweigh financial reasons.

I cannot in good conscious vote for a party that would require women to undergo a vaginal ultrasound before having an abortion; I don’t care what your beliefs are on abortion that is stepping over the line. Or a party that wants to deny basic human needs to its people. Or a party that wants to forces gays, lesbians, and trans-people into therapy…

Texas GOP Pushes Therapy to 'Heal' Gays
ABC News
 June 6, 2014
By PAUL J. WEBER and WILL WEISSERT Associated Press

Gay Republicans in Texas said Friday they may stop fighting their party's proposed endorsement of "reparative therapy" over worries that even tougher anti-gay language could be added to the party platform.

The Texas Republican Party is poised to adopt a new platform this weekend that would support psychological treatments that seek to turn gay people straight. Such therapies were banned for minors last year by New Jersey Republican Gov. Chris Christie, and California has a similar law.
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Under the new proposed plank, the Texas GOP would "recognize the legitimacy and efficacy of counseling, which offers reparative therapy and treatment for those patients seeking healing and wholeness from their homosexual lifestyle."

I find that morally repugnant! To have that language in their party platform this requires medical quackery that the American Psychological Association and other major health organizations to be dishonest and harmful is deplorable and offensive.