Dispel the myth

It is official: The GOP (at least in Texas) wants a Theocracy. The Fundies wrote the party platform, so it is in writing (though a responder says it has been for a while now). Here, according to the Texas Freedom Network, are some of what they want:

* Dispel the myth of separation of Church and State.

* Bar courts from hearing cases in which the officials involved acknowledge "God as the sovereign source of law, liberty, or government."

* End Supreme Court jurisdiction over cases having to do with abortion and the Bill of Rights.

* Lessen oversight of faith-based providers of social services.

* Promotion of teaching Creationism.

* Teach abstinence until straight marriage sex education.

* Criminalize research into embryonic stem cells.

* Promote discrimination against anyone not straight (while deploring all discrimination) by restoring sodomy laws, banning gays from adopting or having custody or visitation rights of children, and banning gays from armed forces.

* Demands a strict test that candidates must support the end of abortion.

A commenter thinks that declarations like this will work against the Texas GOP. State officials recently did some redistricting, which gave the GOP more districts, each with smaller margins. Disgust with the GOP could swing a lot of districts to Democrats and put them in the majority in the statehouse.