re: #149 freetoken

As mentioned earlier, Rick Perry has history. In the past week stories have been popping up about James Leininger, and now Michelle Goldberg jumps on:
[Link: www.thedailybeast.com…]

A millionaire fundie with what seems to be an obsession with homoerotic imagery.

In 1994, for example, one Leininger-funded group sent out a campaign mailer showing two men kissing; it accused an incumbent school board member of promoting homosexuality. The school board member was defeated by Leininger’s candidate, Donna Ballard, one of a series of victories by the social conservatives who soon took over the body.

Photos of gay men, intended to repulse, have been a hallmark of Leininger’s campaigns, and not just against Democrats. In 2002, the Dallas Morning News reported, “Acting Lt. Gov. Bill Ratliff and key GOP legislators say they have been falsely portrayed as promoting ‘homosexual lifestyles’ and gay sex education in public schools in political fliers sent out in recent days by a Dallas-based conservative group.” Leininger was one of the biggest contributors to that group, the Free Enterprise Political Action Committee.

The right wing just keeps on getting stranger the deeper you look.