{"id":5911,"date":"2014-06-16T14:20:02","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T14:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=5911"},"modified":"2014-06-16T14:20:02","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T14:20:02","slug":"sexual-orientation-is-no-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=5911","title":{"rendered":"Sexual orientation is no disease"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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One more comment on Gov. Rick Perry’s foray into gay politics and then I’m done.<\/p>\n

I just read Paul Burka’s blog post on the subject. Here it is:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/rick-perry-homosexuality<\/p>\n

Burka’s fundamental point is a simple, but quite profound, one. Alcoholism is a treatable disease; homosexuality is not.<\/p>\n

Perry was asked at a California political gathering if he thought being gay is a disorder. He liked it to alcoholism. “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 in the same way,” Perry said.<\/p>\n

I’ve noted already, so I won’t belabor the point, but the two issues simply are not connected at any level.<\/p>\n

And yet, the Texas Republican Party has adopted a platform plank that suggests that someone can be counseled out of being gay through what the GOP calls “reparative therapy.”<\/p>\n

Whatever has become of the Texas Republican Party? The goofballs are in charge.<\/p>\n

There. On this subject, I’m out.<\/p>\n\n

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One more comment on Gov. Rick Perry’s foray into gay politics and then I’m done. I just read Paul Burka’s blog post on the subject. Here it is: http:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/burka-blog\/rick-perry-homosexuality Burka’s fundamental point is a simple, but quite profound, one. Alcoholism is a treatable disease; homosexuality is not. Perry was asked at a California political gathering … Continue reading Sexual orientation is no disease<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3896,3951,4622],"class_list":["post-5911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-reparative-therapy","tag-rick-perry","tag-texas-gop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}