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• Under the new proposed plank, the Texas GOP will "recognize the legitimacy and efficacy of counseling, which offers reparative therapy and treatment for those patients seeking healing and wholeness from their homosexual lifestyle."
• The full convention of nearly 10,000 delegates from across Texas will take a final vote on the platform Saturday.
• Gay conservatives in Texas could still emerge with a rare victory on a separate issue: removing decades-old platform language that states, "Homosexuality tears at the fabric of society." Stripping that phrasing survived a sometimes-tense challenge from hardliners who not only wanted to preserve it, but wanted to replace "homosexuality" with "sexual sins."
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• GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Foes Hamas and Fatah managed to set aside some of their differences to form a Palestinian unity government, but the hardest part of reconciliation may still lie ahead -- settling demands of justice for hundreds killed and wounded in fighting that culminated in the 2007 Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip.
• The emotional issue weighs on attempts to share power in Gaza after seven years of sole Hamas rule. A reconciliation commission is to review each case and award compensation, but possible violence by those seeking revenge instead could threaten re-integration in the Mediterranean coastal territory.
• The commission would need at least two years and $150 million to review and settle any claims, said panel member Ashraf Jumma, a Fatah legislator. But for the moment, it has no funding at all, he said.
• And not all are ready to accept a resolution.
• "I don't want compensation ... I want punishment," said Hamza Rafati, the 22-year-old son of a slain Hamas preacher. In May 2007, he said, his father Mohammed was dragged from the family's Gaza City home by Fatah-affiliated security men and shot in the head in the street.
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