Uganda Texas Republicans are certainly a (insert your favorite adjective here)-breed like no other, and remind us just how shrewd the group is in the state's GOP policy-advocating outline for the next two years, released today.

Sure, they hope to outlaw strip-clubs, sex shops and the sale of pornography by 2012, as well as want Texas to allow for unprecedented access to oil and gas drilling. But the real clincher in the GOP's policy outline includes making it a FELONY for anyone to perform a civil ceremony of a same-sex couple.

The language in this disgusting advocacy is as full of vitriol and prejudice as the ambitious legislation:

"We believe that the practice of homosexuality tears at the fabric of society, contributes to the breakdown...