Posted on 06/12/2014 8:38:03 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry addressed the Commonwealth Club of California Wednesday night. The former Presidential candidate, who is thinking about running again in 2016, spoke to the crowd in San Francisco about a variety of topics, ranging from climate change to House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s recent primary loss. However, he shocked the crowd, and perhaps put the final nail in the coffin of his Presidential ambitions, when he compared homosexuals to alcoholics and suggested that gays should just refrain from homosexual activity, much like an alcoholic should not drink.
Perry was on stage being interviewed by the Commonwealth Club’s Greg Dalton. During the interview, the Texas GOP’s official platform was brought up, which includes the widely-discredited practice of reparative therapy for gays. This is where a gay or lesbian person is taught, typically by a ‘person of faith,’ to reject and repress homosexual impulses and embrace heterosexuality.
Perry said he was unsure if the therapy worked when an audience member asked Perry if the therapy works . Dalton then followed up by asking Perry if he thought homosexuality was a disorder. Perry answered with the following:
“Whether or not you feel compelled to follow a particular lifestyle or not, you have the ability to decide not to do that. 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.”
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RE: Since Rick Perry also called Hillary a great Secretary of State, you have to wonder which two of the three times to listen to him.
Like anybody who is human and can sometimes be wrong, you have to take his statements on a case by case basis and use your judgment.
I’m not sure it’s a psychological disorder so much as surrender to spiritual darkness. I believe it needs to be addressed spiritually. And when that spiritual warfare is embarked upon, you’ve got a HUGE fight on your hands as those spirits have rooted themselves deeply into the hearts, minds and culture of people all over the world.
But I agree with Gov. Perry that it can be successfully addressed.
I am asking this because NJ’s governor Chris Christie signed a law OUTLAWING reparative therapy for homosexuals.
He and other leftists are afraid it will work.
Since Hillary is the likely opponent at this point, those statements would doom him.
He could always add an addendum — “What I meant was Hillary is a great Secretary of State to terrorist of Benghazi.”
The left wants to prohibit "reparative therapy". The GOP should make this a "pro-choice" issue. "Reparative therapy" should be available to those who want it. Democrats are autocratic in their "War against Gays" by taking that choice away.
He's corrict that it is like alcoholism in that it is a purely BEHAVIORAL issue, period. I am an alcoholic, the same crazy kind as my grandfather was. I know of what I speak; drinking to excess is all and only about the choice to drink or the choice to resist temptation and leave it alone. These are purely BEHAVIORAL things, and just because one person's body craves alcohol (like mine) while another one's doesn't, makes it "so unfair!!!" and more difficult for the likes of me, it REMAINS a purely behavioral choice and purely a behavioral solution.
He is wrong in that it can be "treated" with outside assistance. There is ONLY ONE successful "treatment" -- the individual decides to AVOID or CEASE a very specific, particular behavior.
The next time a homosexual gets the urge just have him take a long look at Bawney Fwank. That should do it.
you don’t agree with his statement that you can choose to not be someone you feel you are predisposed to be? I may really be inclined to steal, but I have within me the means to overcome that. I may have a strong lust for woman, but I have the power to overcome it and remain faithful to my wife. Perry says someone may feel strongly he/she in homosexual, but also has the power to overcome it. You don’t believe that?
Homosexuality is simply a deviant (apart from the norm) sexual lifestyle. To pretend otherwise is not being grounded in reality and delusional. People who support and champion gay rights simply do not have the courage to admit it’s simply deviant sexual behavior, but try very hard to wrap it up in “civil rights.” There is no “gay gene.” Homosexual behavior is also not illegal, but no different than any other deviant human sexual activity like pedophelia, necrophelia, or this entire list of deviant sexual behaviors:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_paraphilias
Homosexual groups are trying to force acceptance of their behavior by using political pressure on corrupt politicians and trying to bully and shout down anyone who disagrees with them. And so far, it’s working... Honestly, no one really cares to fight about it all that much. Too many people in this country allow themselves to be bullied. A nation of cowards, as that moron Holder likes to say.
I could honestly care less what you do behind closed doors, but when you try to bully me by shouting at me and calling me a bigot because I don’t support your behavior, or try to force me to believe a certain way, or try to coerce me to pay tax dollars to support your idiot causes, you got a fight on your hands.
“... the individual decides to AVOID or CEASE a very specific, particular behavior. “
That is exactly what the treatment centers stress - that is the 12 step program. Some must learn that no one can do it but yourself.
If alcoholism is a disease, it's self-inflicted and self-cured. Someone with multiple sclerosis or Type 1 diabetes or polio cannot make ALL of the symptoms of their disease DISAPPEAR simply by avoiding (by force or by choice, either one) a specific behavior.
Someone with alcoholism CAN make ALL of the symptoms disappear by avoiding -- whether by free choice or by being stranded somewhere where zero alcohol is available -- a specific behavior. I know of what I speak as I have lived it.
Life isn't fair, and no one -- least of all God -- said it was.
Come on Rick, Its the political topic that dare not speak its name.
I believe Perry is right to the extent that society’s endorsement makes it seem epidemic. Then there’s the media.
With respect, those 12-step programs and IN PARTICULAR those treatment centers (which average at least $1,000 per day) are to the true problem of alcoholism, what bleeding patients was to medicine 200 years ago.
What controls the lives of people on those 12 step programs? God? Themselves? Or alcohol? Does that 12 step program tell them, "Go where you will, go to bars, go to dances, go to parties, go where alcohol is served in abundance, and enjoy yourself because you are in control."
On the contrary, those 12-step programs warn you to stay away, to let whether or not alcohol is present, to determine your choice of where you go and who you socialize with! That is a losing scenario where alcohol remains more powerful than God or self-will.
Look, I know many reformed alcoholics who achieved sobriety by embracing a 12-step program, but nearly every one of them STILL put alcohol at the center of their lives, even though many haven't drank a drop for decades! They are still controlled by alcohol.
They are less "healed" than they are simply altered. God made me a horrifically allergic alcoholic -- I've woken up in jails and other places with zero idea as to how I got there, lost jobs, lost friends, injured myself, etc. When I realized I had a decision to make, I thought of my allergy to alcohol (that's the best way of describing the affliction, IMO) as a curse. Over the years, I realized, with the grace of a most merciful and loving Almighty and my wonderful Savior Jesus, that it is indeed ONE OF MY RICHEST BLESSINGS.
RE: Come on Rick, Its the political topic that dare not speak its name.
Gay love used to be called “The love that dares not speak its name” by Oscar Wilde. Now it has become the love that just won’t shut up.
when the political world can also predict the best cures for other disease then maybe they should get involved with doctor patient stuff, till then worry about good government, less government and shut up.
Well whether you agree with Rick or not its fun watching the progressive heads explode. :-)
“It doesn’t take him long before he praised Hillary as some sort of effective person of some sort.”
IMO Perry does not believe that Hillary will be the 2016 Democrat nominee. He thinks it will be Andrew Cuomo as do I. He’s speaking in Libtard land so why slam Hillary? He’s trying to get support even in San Francisco for a presidential run. A good strategy.
Perry is very much Presidential material. Its way past time to elect a mature adult to the Pesidency. Especially a good patriotic American Christian conservative adult. Not to mention a staunch states righter.
Right now I don’t even want to hear about anybody except Perry and Cruz.
Can you imagine the group sessions???
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“Hi, my name is Sergio.”
“HI, SERGIO!”
“I’ve been homo-free for 6 months now...”
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