Mon Mar 6, 2023 – 3:28 pm EST
AUSTIN (LifeSiteNews) – The Texas State Republican Executive Committee voted overwhelmingly over the weekend to censure U.S. Rep. Tony Gonzales, who represents the state’s 23rd congressional district in Congress, for taking several left-wing positions at odds with the Republican Party platform, including his support for same-sex “marriage.”
On the “Values” page of his campaign website, Gonzales presents himself as a typical Republican, “100% pro-life,” a “strong supporter of Americans’ Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms as well as a “staunch defender of Americans’ property rights [who] opposes efforts to stifle free speech.” But Just the News reports that members of his party in the Lone Star State disagree.
On Saturday, the executive committee voted 57-5 to pass a resolution censuring Gonzales for “actions taken during the current biennium in opposition to the core principles of the Republican Party of Texas.”
Chief among those actions was his voting in favor of the so-called Respect for Marriage Act, which formally requires all fifty states to recognize the same-sex “marriages” of other states, effectively codifying the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling, which most Republicans considered an
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