According to Rick Perry, yes.
I want to thank David Weigel of Slate.com for reminding us why we shouldn't forget about everything but jobs and the economy as we enter the heat of the presidential primary season.
In Rick Perry's 2008 book, On My Honor, he wrote this about homosexuals:
I can sympathize with those who believe sexual preference is genetic. It may be so, but it remains unproven. Even if it were, this does not mean we are ultimately not responsible for the active choices we make. Even if an alcoholic is powerless over the alcohol once it enters his body, he still makes a choice to drink. And, even if someone is attracted to a person of the same sex, he or she still makes a choice to engage in sexual activity with someone of the same gender.
I don't even know how to begin to address his argument, honestly - it's a new one on me - except to say that it is hard to fathom how one can say that refraining from loving and being loved by another human being is the same as refraining from overindulgence in alcohol, which may lead to liver disease, drunk driving, and the subsequent death of you or another, or both. I wasn't aware that being gay can lead to liver disease, drunk driving, and death.
Regardless of how you may feel about the gay community, this quote should serve as a reminder that when we elect a president in November 2012, be they Barack Obama or another candidate, we aren't simply electing a job-creating machine (or at least the possibility of one). We're electing someone who has ideas about how to change not only the economy, but healthcare, Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare, abortion, civil rights of any kind, and education, both K-12 and beyond.
Beware the tunnel vision when you choose our next president.
--Penn, contributor
Penn also co-authors Toasted Filberts.
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