More from the "You Can't Make This Up" pages, this time from Right Wing Watch.
The governor of Texas has written a new book about the Boy Scouts, but parents expecting a positive, civic-minded story about personal development will be disappointed: instead, Rick Perry has apparently taken up a defense of the youth organization’s anti-gay policy.
Perry, like the Scouts, has made banning gays and atheists the Maginot Line of what he calls the “culture war” against the "virus of secularism." In a condensed interview with the New York Times Magazine’s Deborah Solomon, the governor lays out his explanation of why excluding gays is so important to scouting:
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Solomon: Why do you think a homosexual would be more likely to bring the subject of sex into a conversation than a heterosexual?
Perry: Well, the ban in scouting applies to scout leaders. When you have a clearly open homosexual scout leader, the scouts are going to talk about it. And they’re not here to learn about that. They’re there to learn about what it means to be loyal and trustworthy and thrifty.
Solomon: But don’t you think that homosexuals might also be interested in being loyal and thrifty? The argument that gets made is that homosexuality is about sex. Do you agree?
Perry: No. Well, then why don’t they call it something else?
Hmmm ... Do you think Prick Perry has ever encountered the word, "heteroSEXual"?
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