Texas conservatives can't overlook candidate's past cross-dressing ways

[Ruffhowse]

By Jay Root and Marha Deller
Knight Ridder Newspapers



CLEBURNE, Texas-In the heart of the Texas Bible belt, where a woman is being prosecuted for selling sex toys, a man with a cross-dressing past might seem like more grist for a sermon full of fire and brimstone.

But folks-staunch conservatives at that-don't appear to be pouring out of the woods of Johnson County to throw stones at Sam Walls, who has acknowledged dressing up like a woman but won't say much else.

Days before he faced voters April 13 in a hotly contested Republican runoff for a state House seat, Walls continued to shoo away the media, but his friends and supporters rushed to his defense, highlighting a lifetime of philanthropy and brushing off the controversy as irrelevant. The controversy didn't recede-he lost the race. But the issue did show how what one does in his or her personal life affects a campaign.

http://www.ccchronicle.com/back/2004_spring/2004-04-19/campus10.html
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The examples of Republican moral hypocrisy just keep on rolling in. It's really rather incredible.

[ima_sinnic]

1. from the very end of the article:

Bob Alford, the Republican sheriff who urged Walls to withdraw, choked back tears when he described how he told a man he described as a mentor that he could no longer support him.

"I've lost a lot of sleep. I've been praying over this thing," Alford said. "Sam has a moral issue that he's got to deal with."

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a "moral" issue? doesn't the IDIOT mean a "conformity" issue?

morality has to do with right vs wrong. there's nothing "right" or "wrong" about dressing the way you want.

btw, I found it very interesting that the woman on the left in the photo is the man's wife.

[Montauk6]

3. What's pathetic...

If he had committed a murder, his opponents might've had less to work with. Ya gotta love the Texas Con Game.

[bananas]

4. conservative definition of "moral"

When conservatives say "moral",
they mean "sexual", never anything else.

[Spinzonner]

2. I'd vote against him

for his fashion sense