Posted on 06/13/2014 3:00:11 PM PDT by juliosevero
Media Firestorm = Tempest in Teapot
I’ve never thought of it exactly that way, but if Gov. Perry meant what the headline says, I say he’s spot on.
Homofascists can jump around and scream all they want, but Perry’s response was great.
Drugs are a more accurate comparison, but, alcohol is a drug, so okay.
Empty people seeking a thrill to make them feel less empty, ending up emptier still.
But no firestorm over calling Hillary Clinton a “great” secretary of state.
Well, probably the media agree. Still, it was a crazy comment.
Every time someone new does so it generates more and more controversy.
Whether or not it is a controversial comparison in reality is no longer the issue. It is, and has been, a controversy for some time.
The fact that Perry did not know this, and that none of his staff knew this, suggests that once again Perry is not ready for the national stage.
I guess I'm going to wish Perry well in hopes that he stays in long enough to siphon votes away from Bush and/or Christie and/or any other pro-amnesty candidate.
My fear is that he is too tone deaf for the national campaign and will implode before or just after New Hampshire.
I’ve been explaining it this way (of course, they don’t understand irony):
I’m a conservative. I’ve always been a conservative. I can not point back to an event in my life where I made a conscious “choice” to become a conservative. With every fiber of my being, I believe that conservative ideas are right and should be supported and celebrated by all.
I was, in short, born this way.
Wasn’t I?
What? You think that I was raised to think the way I do? That my parents filled my head with ideas that somehow shaped me into something that I would not have naturally become? That if only I’d see that I’ve been embracing the wrong ideas and thoughts, I’d be able to realize the error of my ways and turn towards the liberal ideas that you are certain are right and good?
Perhaps you’re right.
Or, perhaps there’s more to the idea that people’s opinions, attitudes, and preferences are shaped by their upbringing and the influences they grew up with than you’d like to admit.
God bless Governor Perry.
Amen.
But does the author realize the significance of what he just hinted at? That Zero backed regime change in Ukraine to ‘punish’ Russia for its anti-homosexual stance as a nation? That the lives being lost in Ukraine this hour are little more than collateral damage to Zero-led homosexual militants?
Whoa. !! and Whoa again !!
“Decades ago, Democrats and other liberals began with audible mumblings about views of homosexuality as abnormal or vice. Today, they are stridently combative against any one espousing conservative moral stances.”
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“In fact, Dr. Scott Lively...has commented that the Ukraine crisis...happened to provoke Russia... [for]... taking a stand against homosexual propaganda in its society.”
Stir it up Rick.
Perry continues to step on his tongue and talk his way out of higher office. No POTUS for you, Ricky.
I understood him perfectly and couldn’t find fault with what he said.
It’s about choice.
To all the homofascists out there, the man has an opinion. You may disagree but hey, as your people say, “get over it.”
it is a far better and accurate comparison than using a skin color analogy.
No pandering here. So you would choose more “tolerance”?
Where were the media when the Dem leadership called me a terrorist?
Unless Perry answered that homosexuality is wholesome and completely within the norm the PC police would find fault with it. As for its normalcy, IMO it matters little whether an inclination toward the life style is adopted or one is born with it. People are born with all manner of birth defects, that doesn’t make the defects normal.
” The Chronicle then reported that Perry was asked by the events moderator if he considered homosexuality to be a disorder. Perry responded, Whether or not you feel compelled to follow a particular lifestyle or not, you have the ability to decide not to do that. I may have the genetic coding that I’m inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.”
Perfect response, as far as I’m concerned.
Go get ‘em Rick.
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