Texas GOP Chair: I'll Cancel My Local Newspaper Subscription if They Ever Publish a Pic of Gays Kissing!

The Texas GOP has done a lot legislatively this year to make sure that America knows that they hate gays. Everything from banning transgender people from using the restroom to banning local ordinances from establishing local anti-discrimination policies that protect on the basis of sexual orientation to banning public employees from recognizing gay families to placing a $2,000 bounty on anyone who discovers transgender students using the school restrooms -- not to mention tons of other crap.

Now the new chair of Texas' Republican Party has gone on record with saying that he will cancel his subscription if his local newspaper ever publishes a picture of a same-sex couple kissing:

The new chair of the Texas GOP says if his hometown newspaper ever publishes a photo of a same-sex couple kissing, he’ll cancel his subscription.

Texas Republicans on Saturday selected Tom Mechler, an Amarillo businessman who’s served as the party’s treasurer since 2010, to succeed Steve Munisteri, who stepped down as GOP chair to become a senior advisor to Sen. Rand Paul’s presidential campaign...

In a column for the Amarillo Globe-News last March, Mechler responded to LGBT activists who objected to a local gym’s refusal to offer a family membership to a same-sex couple.

“We have gone way past the point of reason in the attack by homosexual activists and other liberals who want to manipulate society to serve their purpose,” Mechler wrote. “One of the problems we are experiencing in our nation is that if you say you believe in the biblical definition of marriage (which I do), or if you express an opinion that liberals determine as being politically incorrect, they will attack you—sometimes viciously—frequently making threats against your life and property. They call your comments and thoughts homophobic or hate speech...”

Last year, Munisteri provided a glimmer of hope that party leadership was inching forward on LGBT rights, when he responded to the controversy over a GOP plank endorsing “ex-gay” therapy by saying he didn’t believe it was possible for people to change their orientation. But Mechler doesn’t appear poised to continue that progress...

“I believe that everyone in our country has a right to protection of his or her person and property, and their personal lifestyle choice doesn’t make them a bad person. I also strongly believe that states have a right to decide the issue of marriage,” Mechler wrote in the column. “As a final note, if the Amarillo Globe-News ever publishes a picture of two men or two women kissing each other, I will cancel my subscription.”

Which seems like a challenge to me.

What do you want to bet that they've already published at least one picture of two men or two women kissing in the past? That sounds like a good research project for someone with a lot more time than me!