I think you are 95% wrong on your points, but I'm not going to debate those points with you. I'm just pointing my objections to the current GOP goes faaaaar beyond what Texan Republicans put in their platform about gays... Actually what Texans thinks about gays bothers me very little.
BUT when things like this do happen, even on a state and local level, it makes the GOP look more and more extremist. Thus I'm pretty sure there will be another Dem prez in 2016..