What it's like to be gay and Republican in Texas

[w8liftinglady]

http://www.texastribune.org/texas-politics/2012-elections/campaign-roundup-political-news-week-1115/?utm_source=texastribune.org&utm_medium=alerts&utm_campaign=News%20Alert:%20Subscriptions

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"State Board of Education member George Clayton, R-Richardson, says he wants to cut short a rumor campaign about his sexual orientation. He sent an email to several news organizations about it.

"So as to avoid the tyranny of misinformation and innuendo in this political race, I wish to say that I, in fact, do have a male partner who lives with me in my home in Richardson, Texas. ... All of us can now move on with discussions concerning education instead of being overly occupied with my personal life," he wrote.

Former SBOE member Geraldine "Tincy" Miller is running against Clayton. His efforts to put to rest any question might instead have made his partner a central issue in the race. Donna Garner, who has been involved on behalf of social conservatives in past SBOE races, cited his announcement as the reason she is renouncing her endorsement of Clayton's re-election bid.

In an email to reporters and copied to Clayton, she wrote, "If Clayton is indeed a homosexual, then we as voters must be concerned about re-electing him to the SBOE since the Board will soon begin the process of writing and adopting Health curriculum requirements for all Texas public school students."

[Scuba]

1. Bigotry is a lifestyle choice. n/t

[ellenfl]

2. thank you. the next time someone tells me that homosexuality

is a lifestyle choice, i'm going to quote you. my stock answer is 'why would anyone want the vilification' but i like your answer better . . . short, pithy and to the point.

ellen fl

[Scuba]

6. Your welcome. For purposes of full disclosure, I stole it from Peacenikki. n/t

[William769]

3. Kudos to George Clayton for being out.

I'll just leave it at that.

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[n2doc]

4. He is deluded on many levels

First if he thinks this will end anything. Second that he is a part of a party that seeks to make him, at best, a second class citizen, and at worst, seeks to jail him.

[noiretextatique]

5. +1000

lie with dogs, you get fleas.

[zbdent]

9. Isn't that the position of a lot of Republicans? That, being gay,

he would be lying down with dogs, too? And children?

[noiretextatique]

10. i meant to change that to

lie with republicons, you get fleas. did not mean to insult dogs or GLBT folks.

[Amimnoch]

7. +1000 as well, but that isn't the worst.

There are still many who absolutely believe that we are abomination enough to be put to death. Texas has no shortage that support the idea of homosexuals having no right to life.

GLBT's who are "conservative" or "republican" leave me completely befuddled.

[noiretextatique]

11. opportunists of the worse kind

like black republicons. i don't care how "conservative" you claim to be...if you support a party that is blatantly racist and anti-gay, and you are black and/or gay...you are below scum.

[zbdent]

8. According to what appears to be most Republicans ... being gay makes you

a child and animal molester ...

but then, you have the intellectual disconnect of the GOPers ...