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TexasTowelie

(111,944 posts)
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 11:10 AM Jun 2014

Rick Perry draws comparison between homosexuality, alcoholism during California visit

Source: AP

SAN FRANCISCO — Texas Gov. Rick Perry drew a comparison between alcoholism and homosexuality during a California visit that also dealt with economic issues.

Perry’s comments to the Commonwealth Club of California came after Texas’ Republican Convention on Saturday sanctioned platform language allowing Texans to seek voluntary counseling to “cure” being gay.

The San Francisco Chronicle reports that in response to a question about the voluntary counseling, Perry said he did not know whether the therapy worked.

Perry, a former and potential future GOP presidential candidate, was then asked whether he believed that homosexuality was a disorder.

Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/news/local-news/20140612-rick-perry-draws-comparison-between-homosexuality-alcoholism-during-california-visit.ece

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Rick Perry draws comparison between homosexuality, alcoholism during California visit (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jun 2014 OP
I believe a few are PatrynXX Jun 2014 #1
??? Aristus Jun 2014 #2
Yeah, about that brandy and whiskey... reflection Jun 2014 #30
I think I need some awoke_in_2003 Jun 2014 #33
Said while he's trying to persuade Palo Alto-based Tesla to move to Texas BeyondGeography Jun 2014 #3
I thought he was just angling for the battery superfactory KamaAina Jun 2014 #10
I wish the Right wingers would yuiyoshida Jun 2014 #4
Especially when they are trying to poach our jobs instead of creating their own n/t arcane1 Jun 2014 #5
Not sure they are all that yuiyoshida Jun 2014 #18
Well, while we're looking down our noses at farmers Le Taz Hot Jun 2014 #36
Its delicious yuiyoshida Jun 2014 #40
Those avacados had to be picked by someone. Le Taz Hot Jun 2014 #41
I don't denigrate that skill but I think yuiyoshida Jun 2014 #43
I don"t know any teabaggers but I take it Le Taz Hot Jun 2014 #44
Not many in San Francisco yuiyoshida Jun 2014 #48
Yep Le Taz Hot Jun 2014 #49
he is probably just remembering a college memory that he had been trying to forget. olddad56 Jun 2014 #6
Being a dumbass is not a choice. nt onehandle Jun 2014 #7
And tragically... sendero Jun 2014 #8
so he thinks his sexual orientation is a problem like his drinking? yurbud Jun 2014 #9
+1 n/t area51 Jun 2014 #22
Maybe he only has gay impulses when he's drunk. LuvNewcastle Jun 2014 #51
Gays AND booze?! KamaAina Jun 2014 #11
Oh, did he say that about 10% of the population is born with it??? elleng Jun 2014 #12
That's right, Dick... americannightmare Jun 2014 #13
Does he even know where he's at? herding cats Jun 2014 #14
It's a common fundamentalist meme Bickle Jun 2014 #15
Yes. They want to believe it is a "lifestyle choice" & hell with all evidence to the contrary Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2014 #16
If you want to really screw with them Bickle Jun 2014 #21
Homophobes typically spend more time thinking about gay sex than most gays. Bernardo de La Paz Jun 2014 #24
+1 nt Raphael Campos Jun 2014 #38
Very true. We're usually thinking about what we're going to have for dinner LuvNewcastle Jun 2014 #54
This message was self-deleted by its author freshwest Jun 2014 #35
I used to drink a lot, but I quit. Never went to any meetings. LuvNewcastle Jun 2014 #53
Hey Gov. czarjak Jun 2014 #17
This guy really has some issues. antiGOPin294 Jun 2014 #19
He is a fool. nt Raphael Campos Jun 2014 #20
IMO, is the birth of RW newist 'for private profit' scam to grab billions of ACA Federal money. Sunlei Jun 2014 #23
"Homosexuals, alcoholics, and I can't remember the third one ..." nt eppur_se_muova Jun 2014 #25
Here is a great Goodhair cartoon Gothmog Jun 2014 #26
Juanita Jean wants remind every one that Rick Perry is not gay Gothmog Jun 2014 #27
Methinks Rick Perry doth protest too much. rury Jun 2014 #39
Really? Gothmog Jun 2014 #55
Someone needs to ask Rick whether he has "decided to follow the heterosexual lifestyle?" yellowcanine Jun 2014 #52
Cool picture of Big Rick. Got a caption? Raphael Campos Jun 2014 #28
"Got a caption?" Spitfire of ATJ Jun 2014 #29
Wouldn't I look real cute in a hat? Kennah Jun 2014 #46
Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2014 #47
That pink slimeburger tasted like shit! Tabasco_Dave Jun 2014 #50
link enid602 Jun 2014 #31
Bwahahahahaha! TexasTowelie Jun 2014 #32
Skittles draws comparison between homophobia, Governor Goodhair during Texas residency Skittles Jun 2014 #34
Yeah...he's the gift that won't shut up. Doc Holliday Jun 2014 #37
So all homosexuals are not alcoholics, Maynar Jun 2014 #42
You can get all of the homosexuals drunk some of the time Kennah Jun 2014 #45

PatrynXX

(5,668 posts)
1. I believe a few are
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 11:19 AM
Jun 2014

but the massive majority isn't. and connecting it to being drunk all the time ... smh thats my dad. I don't think he'd enjoy the comparison. But he'd still root for Rick . My brother found a new word for dads ilk. Tactard. a Tactical Re**** ie wannabe soldier. He's an ammo hoarder. One morning found a bunch of bullets on the floor. Yeah love stepping on bullets on a shag carpet. Don't think they were bullets though think they are the tips. brother got a bullet maker awhile back because my brother is not a tactard. he built his own AR15. dad bought his own AR15. Guess whos AR15 is worth more money than what he paid for it. zzz dads $1000 gun worth $800 now. brothers $1000 gun worth around $3000 because it's basically all metal. Who do I trust to hold a gun. My brother. I don't agree with his politics but he's safer with a gun. Dad dropping bullets all over the floor isn't. Probably knocked the boxes over when he was full of Brandy and whiskey

BeyondGeography

(39,347 posts)
3. Said while he's trying to persuade Palo Alto-based Tesla to move to Texas
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 11:22 AM
Jun 2014

Bringing a Texas-sized helping of ignorance along for the ride. Some fine strateegery there.

 

KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
10. I thought he was just angling for the battery superfactory
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 01:29 PM
Jun 2014

which should go to SoCal, anyway, not just because of Goodhair, but because there's a site down there where naturally occurring lithium in the groundwater could be used as a raw material for the batteries.

yuiyoshida

(41,818 posts)
4. I wish the Right wingers would
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 11:42 AM
Jun 2014

stay the hell out of California. We don't need the crazy talk.. They are not going to change us and obviously they won't change.

yuiyoshida

(41,818 posts)
18. Not sure they are all that
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 05:42 PM
Jun 2014

educated to work our Jobs...but there are some Fruit orchards down in So Cal, and some grape picking north of the Bay.

Le Taz Hot

(22,271 posts)
36. Well, while we're looking down our noses at farmers
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 02:23 AM
Jun 2014

and farm workers, just FYI, it actually takes training to know how to properly pick fruit and tie vines. Enjoy your salad!

Le Taz Hot

(22,271 posts)
41. Those avacados had to be picked by someone.
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 07:10 PM
Jun 2014

Someone who was trained to do so and worked very hard. Maybe we shouldn't denigrate that or are you the average Bay Arean and just can't help yourself.

yuiyoshida

(41,818 posts)
43. I don't denigrate that skill but I think
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 02:05 AM
Jun 2014

Even a few people can learn to do it properly... I think with TEABAGGERS, it must TAKE A BIT MORE TIME AND PATIENCE...don't you??

Le Taz Hot

(22,271 posts)
44. I don"t know any teabaggers but I take it
Sun Jun 15, 2014, 03:36 AM
Jun 2014

you do so perhaps you can answer that question better than I

LuvNewcastle

(16,834 posts)
51. Maybe he only has gay impulses when he's drunk.
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 11:26 AM
Jun 2014

I've known a few guys like that. Actually, I think they're only brave enough to act on their gay impulses when they're drunk. Maybe that's why Perry's in CA. They have a lot of clinics out there that deal with addiction problems. Very expensive clinics that keep their client list completely private.........

herding cats

(19,558 posts)
14. Does he even know where he's at?
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 01:58 PM
Jun 2014

Not only did he just insult all homosexuals, he also just touted the deregulation of electricity as a good thing.

Rick, here's a clue. Deregulation, Enron and rolling blackouts. If you try really hard I bet even you can remember this one.

I hope Tesla sees through this moron and avoids Texas like a plague.

Bickle

(109 posts)
15. It's a common fundamentalist meme
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 02:28 PM
Jun 2014

As long as it's a "disease" for which there is a "cure", they can justify rid hate

Most fundamentalist therapies simply focus on replacing your drug of choice with Jesus, so they get your money instead of the liquor store. AA has a cure rate of 5%. People that don't go to drug counseling? 5%.

When Christians say these things to you, you need to call them hypocritical cowards for not killing every homosexual/atheist/Sunday worker/poly blender etc they see, as is required by their god. And no, until the end of the world, all OT law is in effect (Mat 5:17-19). Their refusal to do so demonstrates they have no faith. No faith, no religion, and constitutionally we should be able to arrest any clergy running a church that refuses to follow their holy book to the letter. And if they try following it to the letter, they get arrested for that too, starting with the bird sacrifice they used to clean their bathroom

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,959 posts)
16. Yes. They want to believe it is a "lifestyle choice" & hell with all evidence to the contrary
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 02:54 PM
Jun 2014

That's science stuff.

You know, good only for electric cars, but not applicable to anything like biology (evolution), psychology, or sociology.

Bickle

(109 posts)
21. If you want to really screw with them
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 02:06 AM
Jun 2014

Ask them to elaborate on what they mean by "the gay lifestyle". They typically have no idea what that actually means, even just to the,

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,959 posts)
24. Homophobes typically spend more time thinking about gay sex than most gays.
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 09:16 AM
Jun 2014

Gays are people. They typically spend a lot of time thinking about their job, about eating, about their children, about chores, about sports, hobbies, etc.

Homophobes have a strange obsession with homosexual sexual practices and seem to believe that it is all gays think about.

LuvNewcastle

(16,834 posts)
54. Very true. We're usually thinking about what we're going to have for dinner
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 11:38 AM
Jun 2014

or how much we need to save up before we get something we want. Stuff like that. We're pretty boring sometimes, just like anybody.

Response to Bickle (Reply #15)

LuvNewcastle

(16,834 posts)
53. I used to drink a lot, but I quit. Never went to any meetings.
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 11:33 AM
Jun 2014

I couldn't tell you the 12 steps if you tortured me. I do cheat occasionally, like on Mardi Gras. I just don't feel guilty about it the next day and call my sponsor. AA is a religion. Some people won't do the 'right' thing unless they join a church that tells them they'll go to hell if they don't. That's how I look at it.

czarjak

(11,253 posts)
17. Hey Gov.
Thu Jun 12, 2014, 05:03 PM
Jun 2014

Remember that function last year when you introduced your wife? She came out and you gave her that hearty handshake instead of a hug and kiss like most husbands would do. What up with that?

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)
23. IMO, is the birth of RW newist 'for private profit' scam to grab billions of ACA Federal money.
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 07:05 AM
Jun 2014

Read last week 'someone' some group, tries now to pass laws that their new 'gay treatment clinics' can't be opposed or refused. You read it here first.

If they get their way the USA will see thousands of these scam 'clinics' everywhere. Tax free, funded by federal dollars and massive co-pays and of course plenty of prescription medications.

Every church will have a 'clinic' funded by the taxpayers. Online 'clinics' also. And low interest rate loans to cover the persons 'co-pay and prescription drug costs.

Gothmog

(144,920 posts)
27. Juanita Jean wants remind every one that Rick Perry is not gay
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 03:24 PM
Jun 2014

Please listen to Juanita Jean http://www.juanitajean.com/2014/06/12/have-a-drink-rick/

Okay, let me start this by saying that Rick Perry is not gay. Not at all. Not even a little bit. Not gay. Rick = no gay. Nada gayito.

He was asked yesterday about the Texas Republican Party’s platform wanting reparative therapy for gay people because, obviously, they need repairing.

Reuters) – Texas Governor Rick Perry, seen as a potential Republican presidential candidate in the 2016 election, compared homosexuality to alcoholism in remarks in San Francisco.

“I may have the genetic coding that I’m inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that,” Perry said in remarks broadcast on the local CBS affiliate. “And I look at the homosexual issue in the same way.”

A few people in the audience gasped in response, according to the CBS report.


Yeah, just say no. You know, it worked so well with the drug thing that it just has to work with The Gay. Hell, that doesn’t even work with alcoholism.

Rick, dude, take off your not gay cowboy hat and put on your thinking cap: you were in San Francisco. Even the most conservative Republican in the entire city believes gay is okay.

Reminder: Rick Perry is not gay.

Now remember, according to Juanita Jean Rick Perry is not gay. Please do not forget that Rick Perry is not gay.

Response to Kennah (Reply #46)

Tabasco_Dave

(1,259 posts)
50. That pink slimeburger tasted like shit!
Mon Jun 16, 2014, 11:17 AM
Jun 2014

Only the poor should eat those, now I'm going to drive my Audi to a nice four star restaurant.

Skittles

(153,113 posts)
34. Skittles draws comparison between homophobia, Governor Goodhair during Texas residency
Fri Jun 13, 2014, 09:22 PM
Jun 2014

gawd, the man NEVER misses an opportunity to embarrass Texas

Doc Holliday

(719 posts)
37. Yeah...he's the gift that won't shut up.
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 10:59 AM
Jun 2014

I wonder if there are a few crossed wires, so to speak, between his speech center and his mouth.

It would explain a great many things.

Maynar

(769 posts)
42. So all homosexuals are not alcoholics,
Sat Jun 14, 2014, 07:31 PM
Jun 2014

but all alcoholics are homosexual. Or some alcoholics are homosexual, but some homosexuals are not alcoholics. Or all homosexuals are not alcoholics, but all alcoholics are not homosexuals. Or something.

Go ahead and laugh, it makes about as much sense as what Goodhair just said!

Bloody Texans!

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