Opn | Rick Perry’s gay fixatn - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• RICK PERRY ‘EPLY TROUBLED’ BY ELECTN OF GAY TEXAS A&M STUNT PRINT
• HERE'S A VIO MASHUP OF RICK PERRY TALKG ABOUT GAYS
• RICK PERRY GAY RUMORS: GOVERNOR'S AIS PREPARED TO TACKLE ALLEGATNS SHOULD THEY RURFACE: REPORT
• OPN RICK PERRY’S GAY FIXATN
• ALL YOUR RICK PERRY GAY SEX RUMORS COLLECTED ONE HANDY BOOK
• RICK PERRY CRICIZ ELECTN OF GAY TEXAS A&M STUNT LEAR

RICK PERRY ‘EPLY TROUBLED’ BY ELECTN OF GAY TEXAS A&M STUNT PRINT

Former six-term state reprentative Glen Maxey and Texas’s first openly gay legislator, has self-published a book tled Head Figure Head: The Search for the Hidn Life of Rick Perry which he vtigat mors about the ernor’s sexualy. “Maxey scrib his own book as ‘the story of my failed attempts to expose Rick Perry’s homosexual enunters. His characterizatn of the suatn match one outled more tail an ebook by Mike Allen and Evan Thomas, which explaed that Perry’s ais were “distrsed to learn that Jason Cherkis, a Huffgton Post reporter, was At prowlg around on a story that had been gossiped about for years the Texas pal: is Perry gay?

“We looked at what we had; we realized that was not a publishable story, and was over, ” Ariana Huffgton told of early Monday morng, the book was ’s number-one bt-seller the “Gay and Lbian” tegory, as well as the number-one Kdle book the “Electns” tegory. Perry has likened homosexualy to alholism, voiced support for "ex-gay" therapy, and supported the Boy Suts of Ameri's now-repealed ban on gay members and lears. "I may have the geic dg that I'm cled to be an alholic, but I have the sire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way.

" He later admted he "stepped " wh that answer and said he would fer to science on "ex-gay" 2013, before the BSA repealed s ban on gay youth, Perry utned agast dog so, and he said supportg the ban was like opposg slavery. His admistratn wants to make foreign aid cisns based on gay rights, " Perry said December 2011, rponse to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clton's Uned Natns speech which she said, "Gay rights are human rights, and human rights are gay rights, " and that a untry's stance on LGBT issu uld figure U. Perry said gay rights were stead "special rights, " addg, "Invtg tax dollars promotg a liftyle many Amerins of fah fd so eply objectnable is wrong.

HERE'S A VIO MASHUP OF RICK PERRY TALKG ABOUT GAYS

" "There's somethg wrong this untry when gays n serve openly the ary but your kids n't openly celebrate Christmas or pray school, " Perry said the ad. The ad spired numero parodi, many of which poted out that Perry was sportg a jacket jt like the one Heath Ledger wore when playg a gay ranch hand Brokeback not only did he rist marriage equaly Texas every step of the way, early on his first printial mpaign he signed an anti-equaly pledge put out by the Natnal Organizatn for Marriage.

He has wrten an article stg doubt on the procs that saw Texas A&M Universy elect s first openly gay stunt body print amid a ntroversy over glow US Senate nfirmed Perry’s appotment as energy secretary only three weeks ago, but evintly he is not too by settlg to his new job as the ctodian of Ameri’s vast stockpile of nuclear weapons that he nnot fd the time to ope on stunt polics at his alma an opn piece published on Wednday by the Hoton Chronicle, Perry wr: “As Texas’ first Aggie ernor and as someone who was twice elected Yell Lear” of the universy, he is “eply troubled” by the nduct of s admistratn and stunt ernment associatn durg this month’s Brooks, an enomics junr at the universy, was elected after the ial wner, Robert McIntosh, was disqualified followg allegatns of voter timidatn and a fance reportg failure, acrdg to the mp newspaper The Battaln. McIntosh is the son of Alison McIntosh, a Dallas-based Republin stat that he was at first proud of the stunts for electg an openly gay man, which he saw as “a ttament to the Aggie character”, he add, “Brooks’ princy is beg treated as a victory for ‘diversy’.

RICK PERRY GAY RUMORS: GOVERNOR'S AIS PREPARED TO TACKLE ALLEGATNS SHOULD THEY RURFACE: REPORT

Would the admistratn and the stunt body have allowed the first gay stunt body print to be void for g chary glow sticks? The outgog Governor of Texas, Rick Perry, drew a “murmur of disbelief” Wednday when at an event San Francis he pared homosexualy to alholism, but those were far om his first ntroversial statements about gays. In fact, he has been parg homosexualy to alholism for years, cludg his 2008 book, On My Honor.

” Perry’s most famo anti-gay volley was probably the 2011 mpaign ad for his last printial n that nounced the fact that “gays n serve openly the ary. ” He also has pared his opposn to gays belongg to the Boy Suts wh former Texas Governor Sam Hoton brave stance agast slavery. He has also lled the Obama admistratn’s e of Amerin foreign aid to promote human rights for gays and lbians abroad a “silly ia.

OPN RICK PERRY’S GAY FIXATN

” “Jt when you thought Barack Obama uldn’t get any more out of touch wh Ameri’s valu, AP reports his admistratn wants to make foreign aid cisns based on gay rights. Texas, which stck down anti-sodomy laws Ameri, which had long been ed to target gay upl. Not all Perry’s statements about homosexualy have been anti-gay.

Perry has said that gay marriage is ultimately a state’s rights issue and that was “fe wh [him]” for New York to allow gays to marry, though he later walked back that posn.

At a Dallas Baptist church last year he suggted a more acceptg approach to other “liftyl”—he never actually said “gay” though many afterward terpreted the sermon as an implic pivot away om anti-gay rhetoric.

ALL YOUR RICK PERRY GAY SEX RUMORS COLLECTED ONE HANDY BOOK

Roughly seven years ago, Perry himself addrsed the unsubstantiated buzz that he and his wife planned to divorce and that he was gay. When to the fundamental qutn of whether beg gay is a choice, the Amerin people are pretty much agreement: There is no choice volved.

A Post-ABC News poll om March showed that 65 percent of those surveyed “say beg homosexual is jt the way people are, rather than the way they choose to be. ) if beg gay was a disorr that uld be overe, the former and perhaps future printial aspirant said was.

RICK PERRY CRICIZ ELECTN OF GAY TEXAS A&M STUNT LEAR

I may have the geic dg that I’m cled to be an alholic, but I have the sire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same ’s latt gay mgs e days after his state’s Republin Party endorsed quackery known as “reparative therapy” for gay people.

Never md the Amerin Psychologil Associatn clared a 1997 rolutn: “Homosexualy is not a mental disorr and the APA oppos all portrayals of lbian, gay and bisexual people as mentally ill and need of treatment due to their sexual orientatn. ”As an openly gay person, I n personally attt to the whole homosexualy is “jt the way people are” thg. ) The most vic gossip, which Perry publicly addrsed 2004, alleged that he was gay and had cheated on his wife wh a member of his admistratn.

But the gossip didn’t go entirely dormant, at least not when was polilly expedient: Kay Bailey Hutchson, Perry’s opponent the 2010 gubernatorial electn, juiced up the SEO keywords of her mpaign webse wh “rick perry gay. (Perry do not support gay marriage; Texas Democrats, theoretilly, have ma LGBTQ rights an important part of their platform. The party was silent on the gay-bag ads.