Texas gov Rick Perry only sees the 'sex' in homosexual

Silly rabbit!

We do call it something else! Ever heard of... gay? Lesbian? Queer?

Mr. Perry, you're the only frickin' idiot out there slurring on about homosexshuls. Well not the only one, but you are an aging breed that we can only hope won't be around in a few generations.

Duh.

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by: dewdrop_world @ Mon Feb 25, 2008 at 17:44:31 PM CST

Bigotry is like other non-normative behaviours.

Same sex orientation folks are a constant 5% to 10%, depending on who's counting and how you count.  Can we say 7%, for now?  Same thing with different-gender-identified -- some say as high as 5% with a threshold for trans behaviour; 3% seems like a comfortable number.

The hubris and xenophobia that underlie GLBT-phobia also appears to be fairly constant throughout history, in that, like the abortion issue, there are die-hards who will never be convinced to change their particular stance, and that all's fair in defense of their stance (like bombing abortion clinics and sniping doctors, for example.)

Steven Pinker makes the footnoted, bibliographied case in "The Blank Slate" that we are all genetically hard-wired for certain settings.  Thus progressives tend to begat progressives and bigots tend to begat bigots.  It's like there's a 'hate the other' module somewhere in all of us.  Most people can override the modules' directives with other modules, but for some, the output on that module is, like Nigel Tufnel's guitars and amps, set permanently at '11'

What, then, is the constant percentage of bigots in the population?  There is no hope we can breed this away in a generation or two, what with like-minded breeding couples forming faster than we can 'educate'.

Here's the link for the below quote:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07...

The natural impulse to dislike outsiders is so strong that it barely matters who the outsiders are.

When experimental psychologists divide subjects into purely arbitrary groups - by the color of their eyes, their taste in art, the flip of a coin - the members of a group quickly become so hostile to the other group that they'll try to deny rewards to the outsiders even at a cost to themselves.

And when the members of a group really have something in common, like family ties, they're willing to fight outsiders even if it means their own deaths. Xenophobia produced genetic rewards for hunter-gatherer clans. When the evolutionary psychologist J. B. S. Haldane was asked whether he would lay down his life for his brother, he replied, "No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins."

Karen

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by: Hazumu @ Mon Feb 25, 2008 at 19:11:55 PM CST

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Young hetero boys NEVER think/talk of sex.

You are sooo right, gov perry.  Uh huh. / eyes rolling /

Lurleen on Twitter

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by: Lurleen @ Mon Feb 25, 2008 at 17:59:48 PM CST

My wish

Our wish here in Texas is that he keep his damn mouth shut until after he's out of office!!!!

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by: txrad @ Mon Feb 25, 2008 at 18:04:06 PM CST

using his logic...

then the same is true of "heterosexuality". the Boy Scout "manual" is rife with "heterosexual loyalty", "heterosexual character building", "heterosexual trustworthiness", and "heterosexual thriftiness". as the basis for all of that, isn't it all about sex too?

as far as "boys talking about 'it,'" they talk about "it" whether there is someone gay as a leader or not.

maybe someone should ask Mr. Perry if when he was in the Boy Scouts did he or anyone of his fellow scouts ask about "it"?  probably to each other with no accuracy to their questions and no availability to facts.  

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by: jmichaeli @ Mon Feb 25, 2008 at 19:03:24 PM CST

Damn, but...

I miss Molly Ivins!

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by: bittermint @ Mon Feb 25, 2008 at 19:38:14 PM CST

They only see anal sex

What they do with their wives, and they are attracted to the Dallas Cowboy's "tight end".

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by: Dunkindonuts @ Mon Feb 25, 2008 at 20:12:10 PM CST

It's not just scout LEADERS...

Scouts too are barred for being honestly gay or honestly atheist.  Fundy liars always like to make out as if it is only scout leaders who are barred for honesty.  Nobody ever calls them on it either.

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by: Storm @ Mon Feb 25, 2008 at 21:44:04 PM CST

Not only evil but frickin dumb about it too

I can't help noticing the constant correlation between 'phobe mentality and pathetically diminutive levels of intellect.  

Here's what I find about compromise--
don't do it if it hurts inside,
'cause either way you're screwed,
eventually you'll find
you may as well feel good;
you may as well have some pride

--Indigo Girls

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by: Hypatia @ Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 00:06:22 AM CST

what the hell?

This is a joke right? He didn't really say that did he? Oh for goodness sake someone please tell me this is a joke.

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by: BrianAgenda @ Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 00:17:02 AM CST

Jokes

His hair is a joke.

Unfortunately, what comes out of his mouth is real.

Kat

>^..^<

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by: KatRose @ Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 08:52:16 AM CST

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HE is a joke

and he's a joke that will have served the longer than any other governor by the time he leaves office at the end of this term.  First, Duhbya and now Good Hair - Texans have suffered more than Job ever did!  We can only hope that he will sink back into the slimy ooze from whence he originally came.

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by: Jami @ Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 10:37:50 AM CST

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Suffered?

I am a Texan, but I am used to living in a political and social hell, so it doesn't bother me so much any more. Texans voted for him several times. They tripped over themselves running to the ballot box to make gays and lesbians second class humans in the state constitution after Goodhair promoted it in 2004. If they have suffered, they deserve it.
Goodhair is just like Dubya, only dumber. That's the way Texans like their politicians.  

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by: myroro @ Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 13:10:03 PM CST

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Dumber than Dubya.

  I have heard that from a few people I know that live in Texas, the DFW area to be exact.  One friend even mentioned that they will have one hell of a time when it comes to replacing Perry, but rest assured when the time comes they will vote for him.

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

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by: HappyCat @ Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 23:14:48 PM CST

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I'm not anti-evolution, it's just that...

PERRY: The argument that gets made is that homo erectus is about gay porn. Do you agree?

Oh absolutely, just like the argument that gets made is that anthropology is about saying your sorry after having infected someone with anthrax...or after having thrown ants on them.

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by: Emproph @ Tue Feb 26, 2008 at 21:30:25 PM CST

Wow

Good gravy.  Can't Perry-noia see that the only people "bringing sex into this" are the Boy Scouts themselves, by making membership distinctions that are BASED on sexuality?  If they really lack bigoted motives, if they really want only to promote their mission, then they'd just emphasize honesty, character, and damn little else.  Sexual orientation (who you are) is about as irrelevant to these values (how you act) as is hair color.

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by: CubPaws2008 @ Wed Feb 27, 2008 at 02:49:31 AM CST