Texas ADA

Page 14 of the 2004 Texas State Republican Party Platform reads:
Americans with Disabilities Act ñ The Party supports amendment of the Americans with Disabilities Act to exclude from its definition those persons with infectious diseases, substance addiction, learning disabilities, behavior disorders, homosexual practices and mental stress, thereby reducing abuse of the Act.

Action is urgently needed to contact President Bush and the Texas Republican Party and tell them to reverse their call for an amendment to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) which would eliminate protections for millions of citizens with disabilities. Congress, of course, already thought about coverage of people with mental disabilities and infectious diseases when they passed the ADA. At the time there were proposed amendments to exclude people with mental disabilities & HIV that were soundly defeated.

Furthermore, the GOP platform politicizes the ADA, a nonpartisan law, by trying to associate it with hot button issues and seeking to exclude categories such as homosexual practices that are NOT and NEVER were covered by the ADA.