SAN FRANCISCO, June 12 (UPI) -- Texas Governor Rick Perry used alcoholism to analogize his personal view on homosexuality at a meeting of supporters in San Francisco Wednesday night.
Speaking at the San Francisco Commonwealth Club, Perry discussed economic issues such as government regulation and job creation. When asked by interviewer Greg Dalton about the Texas GOP's formal endorsement of the otherwise discredited practice of "reparative" therapy to "change" a person's natural sexual preference, Perry said while he does not know if the therapy necessarily works, he does view homosexuality as a mental disorder.