Rick Perry: I “stepped right in it” when I compared homosexuality to alcoholism (VIDEO's)

Hot Air ^ | June 20 2014 | Allahpundit

[PoloSec]

What he said is less interesting on the merits than it is as a sign of how his strategy’s changed since 2012.

The Texas Republican Party this month adopted a platform supporting access to “reparative therapy” for gays and lesbians, a widely discredited process intended to change sexual orientation. In response to an audience question about it Wednesday night, Perry said he did not know whether the therapy worked.

Commonwealth Club interviewer Greg Dalton then asked him whether he believes homosexuality is a disorder.

“Whether or not you feel compelled to follow a particular lifestyle or not, you have the ability to decide not to do that,” Perry said. “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.”

The large crowd gathered at the InterContinental Mark Hopkins hotel on Nob Hill included many Perry supporters. But the comment still drew a murmur of disbelief.

[South40]

Great post.

Note I said CONSERVATIVES. GOP RINO types are big Perry boosters.

I particularly liked this part as I and others witnessed this on FR in the past election cycle and we are already seeing it again. It matters not that Perry just one week ago praised Hillary; to them he can do no wrong. Or they refuse to admit it when he does.