Texas GOP Platform Goes Full Christian Nationalist

May 28, 2024 Christianists, Republicans

The Texas Tribune reports:

From his booth in the exhibit hall of the Texas GOP’s 2024 convention, Steve Hotze [photo] saw an army of God assembled before him. For four decades, Hotze, an indicted election fraud conspiracy theorist, has helmed hardline anti-abortion movements and virulently homophobic campaigns against LGTBQ+ rights, comparing gay people to Nazis and helping popularize the “groomer” slur that paints them as pedophiles.

Once on the fringes, Hotze said Saturday that he was pleased by the party’s growing embrace of his calls for spiritual warfare with “demonic, Satanic forces” on the left. “People that aren’t in Christ have wicked, evil hearts,” he said. “We are in a battle, and you have to take a side.” Those beliefs were common at the party’s three-day biennial convention, at which delegates adopted a series of new policies that would give the party unprecedented control over the electoral process and further infuse Christianity into public life.

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Over the weekend, the state GOP adopted calls for daily bible lessons in public schools and a change to the electoral system that would effectively block Democrats from holding statewide office.

Another new rule bans censured Republicans from appearing on the ballot for two years. In March, the party censured GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales, who represents Uvalde, for voting for a gun control bill. Kyle Rittenhouse held a meet and greet with delegates at the convention.

As for the above-mentioned Steve Hotze, he last appeared here for his still-pending lawsuit seeking to ban insurance companies from offering PrEP coverage because it “encourages homosexuality.”

In July 2020, Hotze urged Gov. Greg Abbott to issue “shoot to kill” orders against Black Lives Matter protesters.

Hotze has compared gays to “communist termites” eating away at America’s moral fabric. He is also fond of declaring that it’s now a hate crime to denounce homosexuality.

It was Hotze who bankrolled the successful campaign to repeal Houston’s “wicked, evil, Satanic” LGBT rights ordinance, during which he compared gays to rapists and murderers.

According to Hotze, same-sex marriage will result in children “practicing sodomy” in kindergarten. He appeared here in 2017 when he “prophesied” that God will deliver “just retribution” to lawmakers who vote for LGBT rights.

When he’s not calling on God to kill politicians or the governor to kill protesters, Hotze sells “miracle” supplements because high cholesterol doesn’t really cause heart disease.



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