Texas’s Republican Party learns a difficult lesson in subject-verb agreement

Subject-verb agreement can get tricky in complicated sentences. Yet if you make an error, you can end up saying something you didn’t really mean. The Texas Republican Party recently adopted their 2016 platform, which, thanks to an error in subject-verb agreement,  includes an admission that homosexual behavior is ordained in the Bible and has been “shared by the majority of Texans.” I don’t think that was the intended meaning.

See the NPR story for a copy editor’s correction.