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Texas Repukes: Nutsos or Nazis?

Texas republicans argued over whether their state convention was mainstream or filled with "religious zealots" Saturday as delegates approved a party platform that declared the United States a Christian nation and favored posting the Ten Commandments on public property. The Republican platform also reaffirmed the state party's belief that the nation needs to "dispel the myth of the separation of church and state." The harshest intraparty rhetoric of the Republican State Convention's closing day Saturday was set off by a rule change that ultimately was voted down. The measure would have denied state party financing to Republican candidates who refused to fill out a survey on how they stand on the various planks of the party platform. The survey now is voluntary, and only a handful of hundreds of 2002 candidates statewide responded. The proposed rule change was aimed as what some delegates called "RINOs -- Republicans in Name Only."