Everyone needs a copy editor. (Thank you, and and .)
Today, the Texas Republican Party is probably wishing it had one, too.
Check out this sentence from the just-adopted :
, the sentence actually says that homosexual behavior "has been ordained by God in the Bible, recognized by our nations founders, and shared by the majority of Texans."
That's probably not what Texas Republicans meant.
The magazine blames that Oxford comma there at the end for the confusion, but we asked our aforementioned (and heroic) NPR copy editors where the real problem was and they zeroed in on the verb "." It's singular so the rest of sentence ends up referring to the noun "behavior" instead of "truths."
The Texas GOP did not immediately return our request for comment. We'll update if it does, but it turns out that of its platform has the verbs all correct.
