- The Texas GOP platform calls being homosexual “irregular” and says Biden wasn’t “legitimately elected.”
- Sen. Rick Scott mentioned the language wasn’t “inclusive” and acknowledged Biden’s win.
- A homosexual Republican group additionally slammed the Texas GOP for barring them from the conference.
Sen. Rick Scott on Wednesday criticized the choice of the Republican Get together of Texas to formally name homosexuality “an irregular way of life selection” in its new platform.
“My expertise is, you realize, the Republican Get together is inclusive. And so I do not — I would not have supported that, what they did,” Scott, a Republican from Florida, advised reporters when requested in regards to the state celebration’s stance on homosexuality, in line with The Related Press.
The brand new celebration platform was adopted over the weekend in the course of the celebration’s conference in Houston. Within the “Homosexuality and Gender Points” part, it says being homosexual is “an irregular way of life selection” and that “we oppose any legal or civil penalties in opposition to those that oppose homosexuality out of religion, conviction, or perception in conventional values.”
There’s additionally a piece on gender identification that claims “we oppose all efforts to validate transgender identification,” amongst different stances.
Scott was governor of Florida when a capturing at Pulse, a homosexual nightclub in Orlando, left 49 folks lifeless. Homosexual rights advocates mentioned that Scott’s aides on the time promised he would signal an government order barring discrimination in opposition to LGBTQ state employees and contractors, however such an order by no means got here to fruition.
Scott was additionally criticized by LGBTQ teams earlier this 12 months when he printed a platform that they mentioned denied the existence of transgender folks. “People are born female and male, there are two genders, and to disclaim that’s to disclaim science,” the platform mentioned.
Earlier than the brand new Texas GOP platform was adopted, the Log Cabin Republicans of Fort Value, a homosexual Republican group, mentioned they weren’t allowed to have a sales space on the Texas Republican Get together Conference.
“It is clear that inclusion wins, which makes the Texas Republican Get together management’s resolution to exclude the Texas Log Cabin Republicans from their conference not simply narrow-minded, however politically short-sighted,” Charles Moran, the group’s president, mentioned in a statement.
The Texas GOP platform additionally mentioned President Joe Biden was “not legitimately elected,” cementing adherence to the false declare that the 2020 election was considerably impacted by fraud and that President Donald Trump had really received.
A consultant for Scott and the Texas GOP didn’t instantly reply to Insider’s requests for remark.
