Lane Denton gets in the Texas Sex Rumors

OpEd News gives further background on the gay rumors about Governor Perry and one of my relatives is added to the story.

It is extremely difficult to find "evidence" of extramarital affairs unless one party spills the beans or it comes out in a court divorce document.

So just because some reporters found "no evidence" to support the rumors doesn't mean the rumors do not have some basis.

The [Austin] Chronicle also pointed out how last year Perry signed the "Defense of Marriage Act," the Texas Legislature's "latest gratuitous demonstration that it believes gay and lesbian Texans deserve fewer rights than other citizens."

A blog written by Wick Allison, publisher/editor of D Magazine, a mainstream city magazine, mentioned that Geoff Connor, Perry's secretary of state and alleged playmate, threatened to track down the source of the rumor and sue. Republicans have blamed a Democratic operative in Houston. (This is from a strong Republican insider and apologist.)

A politically-connected attorney in Texas told me he has known about Perry's gay side since the 1980s. And two district judges in Odessa told him that the rumor was always there when they served in the Legislature with Perry.

I don't care if he is gay or bi or whatever, what's appalling is the hypocrisy involved - Perry is going around condemning gays and signing laws against them in public while possibly doing something different in private.

I also hear there is a court transcript or statement of facts in the Texas Court of Appeals that contains sworn testimony that former Waco Rep. Lane Denton had an encounter himself with Perry. Some reporters I know are checking on that.

More in the comments here on Lane's court record of gay relationships. Later, "How ironic that in conservative Texas a good chunk of our political establishment for years seems to have been gay." after mentions of the rumors about Mauro, Morales, Richards, and Dewhurst as well as the Perry and Connor stories.

Pickled Perry

Off the Kuff waits till newsprint comes out to say he doesn't believe the rumors.