Perry, you've stepped so deep into it that it's over your head so far that you can't even determine what "humbling" is.

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Gov. Perry: I ‘stepped in it’ likening homosexuality to alcoholism
By Joel Connelly, June 20, 2014

Texas Gov. Rick Perry has admitted that he “stepped right into it” when he likened homosexuality to alcoholism in that people “have the ability to decide not to do that.”

The Republican governor of America’s second most populous state has been exploring a second bid for the White House in 2016. He brought gasps to a crowd at the Commonwealth Club of San Francisco when he said:

“Whether or not you feel compelled to follow a particular lifestyle or not, you have the ability to decide not to do that.  I may have the generic 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.”

With the country’s attitudes on such issues as marriage equality undergoing rapid change, increased criticism has greeted the unyielding homophobia of Texas Republicans.

The state Republican Party recently adopted a platform that endorsed “reparative therapy” which seeks to convert gays and lesbians to a straight lifestyle through prayer and counseling.

Such has been the reaction that Texas GOP Chairman Steve Munisteri has sought to distance himself and his party from the platform plank.

Perry delivered what was close to a mea culpa at a Christian Science Monitor media breakfast in Washington, D.C.

“I got asked about an issue and instead of saying, ‘You know what? We need to be a really respectful and tolerant country — to everybody — and get back to talking about, ‘Whether you’re gay or straight, you need to be having a job.’ And those are the focuses I want to be involved with,” said Perry.

“Instead, I stepped right into it.”

Perry adopted an explicit anti-gay theme in the 2012 campaign, attempting to rescue his faltering campaign in the Iowa presidential caucuses.  He denounced repeal of the military’s Don’t-Ask-Don’t-Tell policy toward gays and lesbians in uniform.  In a TV spot, he declared:

“I’m not ashamed to admit that I’m a Christian. But you don’t need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there’s something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can’t openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school.”

Perry is now claiming that 2012 was a “humbling” experience.
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