Hypocritus Republicanis Texacus

def:A particular strain of Republican, usually found in southern climates, who supports rules for everyone else that don't apply to himself:

Here it is, just days after the red states gave their presidential seal of approval to the man from Texas, and we've already been treated to another skirmish in the culture wars. The Texas Board of Education has now given its educational seal of approval to what may soon be dubbed Red Sex Ed.



The big news is the state's successful demand that textbook publishers change the description of marriage between "two people" to marriage between "a man and a woman." They also ordered that marriage be defined as "a lifelong union between a husband and a wife."



Frankly, I found the "lifelong" description charming considering that the Lone Star State has one of the highest divorce rates in the country. Massachusetts, by the way, has the lowest divorce rate in the country. We are so fond of marriage that we want everyone to do it.

Ellen Goodman's article excerpted above has more, mostly having to deal with abstinence-only textbooks now being required in Texas.



But isn't it a hoot that a state with a higher divorce rate than Liberal Massachusetts, one which opposes gay marriage, is further restricting the definition of marriage to a lifelong union? A good segment of the biggest Bible-thumpers in the Republican party may find themselves tossed out of the Realm of Marrieds under this definition.



Or they would, if the rules these guys want to impose on everyone else applied to them too.