LGBTQ news and entertainment
At a taping of Jimmy Kimmel Live in Austin, Texas, Gov. Rick Perry was booed by his own people as he took the stage.
Kimmel asks “What have you done to make these people dislike you so intensely?”
Gov. Bang Bang talks with Kimmel about Austin, South By Southwest, marijuana and Willie Nelson.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced today that he will not seek reelection.
“The time has come to pass on the mantle of leadership,” he said at a rally in San Antonio. “Today, I’m announcing I will not seek reelection as governor of Texas.”
Perry has served as governor since 2000, when then-Gov. George W. Bush (R) became president. Perry was elected to full terms in 2002, 2006 and 2010.
Perry also alluded to a potential 2016 presidential run, saying he will “pray and reflect and work to determine my own future path.”
Since his 2012 presidential bid floundered – capped off by his “oops” moment at a presidential debate — Perry has eyed a second run.
Texas Governor Rick Perry is not happy with the Boy Scouts decision.
From the governor’s official website:
The Boys Scouts of America has been built upon the values of faith and family for more than 100 years and today’s decision contradicts generations of tradition in the name of political correctness. While I will always cherish my time as a scout and the life lessons I learned, I am greatly disappointed with this decision.
Because teenage gay boys who want to take part in scouting have no “values of faith and family?”
The only thing the vote by over 60% of the Boy Scout reps does is improve on the traditions of the BSA.
(h/t Towleroad)
Texas Gov. Rick Perry refers to equality for gay scouts as the “flavor of the month” during a webcast yesterday called “Stand with Scouts Sunday” held by the anti-gay Family Research Council.
(video via Right Wing Watch)
The Department of Health and Human Services announced on Thursday that it will cut off all Medicaid funding for family planning to the state of Texas, following Gov. Rick Perry’s (R) decision to implement a new law that excludes Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid Women’s Health Program.
The federal government pays for nearly 90 percent of Texas’ $40 million Women’s Health Program, and nearly half of the program’s providers in Texas are Planned Parenthood clinics.
But the new law that went into effect earlier this month disqualified Planned Parenthood from participating in the program because some of its clinics provide abortions, even though no state or federal money can be used to pay for those abortions.
According to Medicaid law, Mann said, a state cannot restrict women’s ability to choose a provider simply because that provider offers separate services — in this case, abortion — that aren’t even paid for by the Medicaid program.
Parody ad for GOP presidential “hopeful but not gonna happen” Rick Santorum.
This means only Romney and Ron Paul will compete in the great state of Virginia.
Rudy Giuliani is clearly not a fan of Newt Gingrich or Rick Perry.
Whee!
Texas Gov. Rick “bang bang” Perry said he “would send troops back into Iraq” at the GOP presidential debate in Manchester, NH.
With American forces out the country, Perry said, Iran would take over Iraq, “literally at the speed of light.”
The last American troops left Iraq before Christmas, after eight years of war that cost the lives of 4,400 U.S. troops and between $3 trillion and $5 trillion in lost economic output.