Texas GOP may distance support for gay 'reparative therapy'

The new platform also would oppose bathroom rights for transgender persons — an unsurprising move after the state's Republican lieutenant governor said Friday that Texas is ready to forfeit billions of federal dollars rather than comply with a new Obama administrative directive on transgender rights in public schools.

Gays should still have access to "sexual orientation change efforts for self-motivated youth and adults," according to language that nearly 4,000 delegates were voting on Friday.

[...] gone is fiercely contested wording in which the party currently recognizes the "legitimacy and efficacy" of the counseling "for those patients seeking healing and wholeness from their homosexual lifestyle."