Fox News contributor Erick Erickson
said on Friday that he “largely agrees” with Texas Governor Rick
Perry's suggestion that being gay is a choice.
Last week, during an appearance in San
Francisco, Perry was asked whether he believes being gay is a
disorder.
“Whether or not you feel compelled to
follow a particular lifestyle or not, you have the ability to decide
not to do that,” Perry answered. “I may have the genetic 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.”
In a blog post for RedState.com,
Erickson lumped in gay people with alcoholics and adulterers.
“I largely agree with Governor Rick
Perry and appreciate him speaking up,” Erickson
wrote.
“While most of my generation is
pretty accepting of the idea that a person can be born gay, there is
no settled science on the matter. … It really does not matter
though. Whether one is born gay or not does not mean God made a
person gay. And whether it is the unrepentant alcoholic, homosexual,
adulterer, liar, or any of the others the Duck Commander listed, none
are going to be saved on the last day without repenting.”
“Gertrude Himmelfarb wrote, 'What was
once stigmatized as deviant behavior is now tolerated and even
sanctioned; what was once regarded as abnormal has been normalized. …
As deviancy is normalized, so what was once normal becomes deviant.
The kind of family that has been regarded for centuries as natural
and moral – the 'bourgeois' family as it is invidiously called –
is now seen as pathological.”
(Related: Rick
Perry: I “stepped in it” on comparing being gay to alcoholism.)