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Anti-Gay Perry Endorser Claims Gays Are ‘Promiscuous’ | Over the weekend, prominent Rick Perry endorser Pastor Robert Jeffress reiterated his belief that Mormonism is a cult and told ThinkProgress that AIDS is a “gay disease.” The People for the American Way’s Right Wing Watch has dug up some old audio of Jeffress -– whose endorsement Perry is still unwilling to recant –- arguing that “the idea of long-term, monogamous homosexual relationships is a myth” and that gays and lesbians are using “brainwashing techniques” to “inject homosexuality” into the culture. Watch it:


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