Posted on 08/24/2011 9:24:43 PM PDT by Steelfish
Opinion L.A.
2012 Campaign: Rick Perry And A Uniquely Anti-Gay GOP Field? August 24, 2011
You might think as much following the revelation by reporter Mark Benjamin that Republican front-runner and Texas Gov. Rick Perry once compared, in writing, homosexuality to alcoholism. Benjamin writes at Time magazine's Swampland blog:
Since leaping into the GOP presidential race, Texas Gov. Rick Perry hasn't been asked if he thinks gays are born or made. But in a little-noticed passage in his first book, "On My Honor," a encomium on the Boy Scouts published in 2008, Perry also drew a parallel between homosexuality and alcoholism. "Even if an alcoholic is powerless over alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink," he wrote. "And, even if someone is attracted to a person of the same sex, he or she still makes a choice to engage in sexual activity with someone of the same gender."
In "On My Honor," Perry also punted on the exact origins of homosexuality. He wrote that he is "no expert on the 'nature versus nurture' debate," but that gays should simply choose abstinence. Perry's campaign did not respond to a request for comment on whether he maintains this view.
This comes after former front-runner Michele Bachmann's widely advertised connection to homosexual reparative therapy, also known as "pray the gay away," not to mention Rick Santorum's comments years ago on "man on dog" sex. Even Mitt Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts who appears suspiciously moderate to mainstream Republican voters, called for a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage.
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They truly hate us and will do all they can to stop us in 2012. Lets show them that they aren't getting away with it this time!
The same theory of Homosexuals being born applies to alcoholics ... I think this is what they are missing.
Even if you have the genes to be an Alcoholic, it doesn’t mean you are doomed to be one.
Should we say that since Alcoholics are born and not made that public intoxication should be tolerated?
Wasn’t Rick Perry excited for the gays marrying New York?
Well, I don’t see how Perry wins without the Tinkerbell vote. /s
Wasn’t Rick Perry excited for the gays marrying New York?
Tempest, you always throw out troll dung, go look it up yourself and post a link.
Stop posting unsubstantiated tripe with the only basis that you hope it is true so you can denigrate the candidate.
It is not uniquely anti-gay. I don’t remember any previous GOP Presidential candidate, besides maybe McCain, ever being pro-homo.
You nailed it!
In the long or even the short term,it is somewhere between a disease and an addiction.If that is Perry’s line then that works for him.
>>> Well, I dont see how Perry wins without the Tinkerbell vote. /s
Depends on how close the election is, as always. Florida in 2000 as an illustration. 600 fewer blacks voting for GWB, or 600 fewer women, or 600 fewer hispanics, or 600 fewer “tinkerbells” and Gore is president on 9/11.
Winners remember everybody’s vote counts the same and is needed. Losers forget that.
>>> Even if you have the genes to be an Alcoholic, it doesnt mean you are doomed to be one.
That’s how I see it as well. Though it’s so far unproven in science I think eventually it will be shown there is a genetic predisposition in most gays. But environment and circumstance determine if that predisposition manifests itself in behavior.
I had heard that Rick Perry had said some ProGay stuff about the New York marriage law. I was just asking about it. Talk about hypersensitive, I’m talking level 9 gayosity levels of sensitivity.
Who’s Geoff Connor and why do people mention him and rick Perry so much?
I give up. Who is Geoff Connor and why do people mention him and Rick Perry so much?
One blogger at the "Burnt Orange Report" (anti-Perry site) came to this conclusion about the rumors that he reported on earlier in 2004:
"But, as far as I'm concerned, there's been nothing to suggest the rumors we posted were true, and there's been plenty to suggest that the rumors were part of a smear campaign orchestrated by enemies of the governor within the Republican party"
So the first Wall of separation was erected to keep God and
Religion from affecting the politics... and now those who worship at the altar of the lusts of the flesh wish to erect a new Wall -this claiming the Democratic Party is pro-homosexual and the GOP the opposition. Does the LA Times still stand and defend the reprobates?My questions are rhetorical the house is divided and that which a man serves he is slave to.I prefer being a slave to Christ.
If you only did this a once or twice in a blue moon, I wouldn’t say anything, but this at least the second time that you did it.
I am sure there are bad things about Perry and there is plenty on the net.
One man one vote, one pixie one vote? This whole identity politics nonsense is a rancid leftist concoction.
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