He really is not very bright. Read the quote - he sounds like Bush. Perhaps it's the water. From ABC News:
A 14-year-old openly bisexual girl collared Texas Gov. Rick Perry after his town hall here and challenged him to explain the reasoning behind his belief that gays should not serve openly in the military.Where to begin? The policy wasn't working well. And both George Bush's Secretary of Defense, and George Bush's chairman of the joint chiefs, both thought lifting the ban was the right thing to do, so Rick Perry is nuts if he's saying people in the military thought it was a good policy.
“I just want to know why you’re so opposed to gays serving openly in the military, why you want to deny them that freedom when they’re fighting and dying for your right to run for president,” Rebecka Green, a high school student from Decorah, asked the Texas governor.
“Here’s my issue. This is about my faith, and I happen to think, you know, there are a whole hosts of sins. Homosexuality being one of them, and I’m a sinner and so I’m not going to be the first one to throw a stone,” Perry said. “I don’t agree that openly gays should be serving in the military. ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ was working and my position is just like I told a guy yesterday, he said, ‘How would you feel if one of your children was gay?’ I said I’d feel the same way. I hate the sin, but I love the sinner, but having them openly serve in the military, I happen to think as a commander in chief of some 20,000 plus people in the military is not good public policy, and this president was forced by his base to change that policy and I don’t think it was good policy, and I don’t think people in the military thought it was good policy.”
Also, he's "commander in chief" of 20,000 plus people in the military? He's presumably talking about the Texas National Guard. Yeah right. Like it's the same thing.
It does raise the question of whether Rick Perry as commander in chief would hurt morale and cohesion.
