I thought it was a pretty good analogy. Just because your born that way (if indeed they are) doesn’t mean it can’t and shouldn’t be corrected.
We really need to be comparing Democrat spending addicts to alcoholics.
CBS too busy covering stuff like this to focus on the IRS scandal.
Why is this not labeled OPINION? As in, according to CBS’ OPINION, Rick Perry...
I think Perry just made lots of alcoholics mad at him!
:)
Seriously, If the gay rights position is that they were “born that way” (And frankly I do not know if it is nature or nurture) -— why on Earth would the gay lobby be upset with what Perry said?
Yes, some are more disposed to alcoholism, just look at the Native Americans who struggle with that issue.
Yes, perhaps some are more prone to homosexuality due to genetic issues. Is that not what the Left has been telling us?
Maybe Perry should have spoken about hair or eye color but genetics is genetics.
If Perry stepped into anything, it was a big stinking pile of CBS covered with flies.
They have scrapers on the back porch for that stuff.
Well, better to “step in in” than stick your d!ck in it!
He said no such horsesh*t. He said that he, "stepped in it."
He didn’t compare gays to alcoholics. He compared one condition with a known genetic element (alcoholism) to another condition that advocates keep insisting must have a genetic element (homosexuality).
He 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.”
What it means to me is: “if you don’t want to get drunk, don’t take the first drink.” And, “if you are a man and don’t want to be gay...don’t put stuff where it don’t belong,” which is about as polite as I can put it.
“stepped right in it”
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The “it” must be the minds of liberals.
So heterosexuality is a genetic disposition. Are all genetic dispositions like alcoholism? How does the press make such an overreaching comparison and get away with it?
His comments were appropriate and had the added virtue of being correct.
Indeed - nearly all homosexuals are addicts of one kind or another, alcohol, drugs, sex
I think Shakespeare wrote it best
Shall I compare thee to someone gay?
Thou art more lovely and don’t have some other guy’s penis in your behind.
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It was a PERFECT analogy. Anyone who protests should be asked if they are saying that homosexuals are addicted to sex in the same way they need to breathe and eat.
The gay gene was first identified in 1993 as a correlation between the genetic marker Xq28 and gay male sexuality. The results of this original study were never replicated, and the biological reality of such an entity remains hypothetical. However, despite such tenuous provenance, the gay gene has persisted as a reference in science news, popular science writings, and in press releases and editorials about biomedical research.