Facg Cricism, Perry Steps Back on Gay Marriage, Stat' Rights | The Texas Tribune

Contents:

• RICK PERRY'S GAY MARRIAGE VIEWS ARE HERE NOR THERE
• FACG CRICISM, PERRY STEPS BACK ON GAY MARRIAGE, STAT' RIGHTS
• RICK PERRY'S FRGE VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND GAY RIGHTS
• RICK PERRY'S MISSTEP ON GAY MARRIAGE
• GOV. PERRY TAK STAT RIGHTS POSN ON GAY MARRIAGE
• ALL YOUR RICK PERRY GAY SEX RUMORS COLLECTED ONE HANDY BOOK
• GOV. PERRY: GAY MARRIAGE IS STAT' RIGHTS ISSUE
• RICK PERRY: WHERE DO HE STAND ON HEALTH RE, GAY MARRIAGE, AND TAX?
• HERE'S A VIO MASHUP OF RICK PERRY TALKG ABOUT GAYS
• IT'S OK TO CHOOSE TO BE GAY

RICK PERRY'S GAY MARRIAGE VIEWS ARE HERE NOR THERE

"Perry monstrated that he may not be ready for prime time wh how he handled the gay marriage issue. First, Perry said that he didn’t have any problem wh stat like New York approvg gay marriage — though he didn’t thk was appropriate for Texas.

"However, after gettg strong phback om the relig right muny, Perry changed his posn, sayg he was favor of a nstutnal amendment banng gay marriage everywhere.

FACG CRICISM, PERRY STEPS BACK ON GAY MARRIAGE, STAT' RIGHTS

Rick Perry, a potential Republin printial ndidate, said Friday he supports state rights so much that he's fe wh New York's approval of gay marriage but still lled himself an "unapologetic social nservative. Perry, who has been weighg a printial n, said he oppos gay marriage — but that he's also a firm believer of the 10th Amendment. Obvly gay marriage is not fe wh me.

"Here's somethg you won't hear an up-and-down-the-le nservative like Perry sayg all that often: 'If you don't like medil marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California. Our Fight to Save Ameri om Washgton, strongly endors stat' rights but do not discs a feral nstutnal amendment on gay marriage.

If you don't like medil marijuana and gay marriage, don't move to California …. They passed state-n health re, they have sanctned gay marriage. "Gay marriage will soon be the policy of the Uned Stat, irrpective of feralism, the Constutn or the wish of the Amerin people.

RICK PERRY'S FRGE VIEWS ON GAY MARRIAGE AND GAY RIGHTS

We fd some mer to Frost's claim bee Perry did, ed, brg up his support for the amendment after his remarks about gay marriage New York stirred up a storm. NewsRick Perry's Gay Marriage Views Are Here Nor ThereFormer Texas Gov. Rick Perry has said many a-ridiculo thgs, and the issue of gay marriage is no exceptn.

In fact, he had no problem layg all out his 2012 printial n wh that obnoxly bad anti-gay "Strong" ad, which, funnily enough, had him wearg the same jacket ed the film Brokeback Mounta. Over the years, Rick Perry's views on gay marriage have largely been amed as a stat rights issue, but 's been fun to watch the Republin flub his own stance a number of 's most ntroversial ment about gay marriage fely has to be when he pared homosexualy to alholism.

RICK PERRY'S MISSTEP ON GAY MARRIAGE

Durg a San Francis speech, the Republin was asked whether he though homosexualy was a disorr.

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 later fend his statement a whirlwd of TV terviews by shiftg the foc to whether or not gay marriage was a stat' rights issue.

After all, Perry has long been a stnch stat fenr, a tmpeter of the 10th Amendment, if you will, which says the feral ernment should only be afford rights laid out by the Schlegel/Getty Imag News/Getty ImagBut wa, do that mean Perry would be OK if another state legalized gay marriage? In 2011, durg a dner Aspen, Colorado, Perry ma wav among relig nservativ when he said New York's legalizatn of gay marriage was "fe wh me.

GOV. PERRY TAK STAT RIGHTS POSN ON GAY MARRIAGE

My stance hasn't Olson/Getty Imag News/Getty ImagAnd then jt this year, Perry appeared to be OK wh a gay weddg if was all the fay.

ALL YOUR RICK PERRY GAY SEX RUMORS COLLECTED ONE HANDY BOOK

When asked if he would attend a gay weddg of one of his fay members, Perry said he "probably would. " For a guy who "isn't aaid to adm he's a Christian, " let's all take solace knowg that havg a gay relative wouldn't be the end-all for the Getty Imag (2).

) 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.

GOV. PERRY: GAY MARRIAGE IS STAT' RIGHTS ISSUE

The party was silent on the gay-bag ads.

Kay Bailey Hutchison’s SEO Says Rick Perry Is Gay [Gawker]. Rick Perry, takg flak om social nservativ and a potential rival the GOP printial ntt, took a step back om his laissez-faire approach to New York’s gay marriage law on Thursday. But the ments on gay marriage have sparked cricism om social nservativ, cludg clared GOP printial ndidate Rick Santom, a former U.

RICK PERRY: WHERE DO HE STAND ON HEALTH RE, GAY MARRIAGE, AND TAX?

“Obvly, gay marriage is not fe wh me. “If you don’t like medical marijuana and gay marriage, don’t move to California.

Perry warned that gay marriage New York uld threaten the fn of marriage Texas and elsewhere.

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

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.

A majory of the untry has a different take on gay marriage than Rick Perry and other GOP 2012 ntenrs. ]But the issue I am trigued by that is hardly talked about the bat is the issue of gay rights.

IT'S OK TO CHOOSE TO BE GAY

They all know that gay rights is a lm tt for many. Rick Santom, and signed a pledge to support a nstutnal amendment to ban gay Perry, this me after a fense of stat' rights when he clared, "That's New York. That's their bs and that's fe wh me, " after they passed gay marriage.

Needls to say, his love of the 10th Amendment was quickly overshadowed by his dislike of gay marriage.