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And he's been in California this week to headline a series of Republican fundraisers and spread the message that he'd like to get Silicon Valley's Tesla Motors to pull up stakes and head to Texas. During a minute appearance in which he expounded on energy issues, fracking, climate change, government regulation, health care policy and abortion, moderator Greg Dalton asked Perry a question from the audience: "Do you believe homosexuals can be cured by prayer or counseling?

And I look at the homosexual issue the same way. What Perry is saying here is just in keeping with the tenor of Texas Republican politics. That being the case, maybe sometime soon someone will launch an ad campaign in Texas to educate the governor.

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Texas Gov. Rick Perry during a May appearance in New Orleans. Mainstream medicine and psychology have long since discarded the notion that homosexuality is a disorder or that it's something that needs to be cured. Rick Perry's love affair with California just keeps getting better.

It's good to have that clarified. As the Chronicle's Baker notes, the state's Republican Party last weekend adopted a platform that, among other things, rejects the idea of gay marriage and embraces "reparative therapy" for "patients who are seeking escape from the homosexual lifestyle.

The first openly gay state representative in Texas has published a collection of rumors surrounding Rick Perry’s sexual orientation. It’s the kind of “he said, he said, he said” hearsay that the mainstream media has largely discounted. He added, "If you want to smoke weed and get high, go to Colorado.

I may have the genetic coding that I'm inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that. Jun 12, Updated pm PT. Former six-term state representative Glen Maxey and Texas’s first openly gay legislator, has self-published a book titled Head Figure Head: The Search for the Hidden Life of Rick Perry in which.

And I made the point of talking about alcoholism. So, to translate the perhaps untranslatable: Perry says he doesn't know whether prayer or counseling can "cure" homosexuality. Former State Rep. Glen Maxey’s e-book, “Head Figure.

Perry: I wrote a book called "On My Honor," and I talked about people make choices in gay, and whether or not you, whether or not you feel compelled to follow a particular lifestyle or not, you have the ability to decide not to do that. But being LGBT is rick alcoholism, a disease, and you can just decide not to be sick.

But, as Perry said, he's not a doctor or psychiatrist, so maybe the fact "restorative therapy" has been discredited and rejected is news to him. We've heard that prejudices — unlike alcoholism and other diseases — can be cured with a little brain exercise.

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At that point, Dalton changed the subject with another question from the audience on whether Perry believed marijuana would be legalized in Texas Perry said no, though he added it's a matter for states, not the federal government, to decide.

Perry has likened homosexuality to alcoholism, voiced support for "ex-gay" therapy, and supported the Boy Scouts of America's now-repealed ban on gay members and leaders. Perry has won a degree of notoriety for his radio ads inviting Golden State businesses to relocate to the Lone Star State.

Dan Brekke.