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• Texas' Perry makes refers to alcoholism to explain view of homosexuality
• SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Texas Gov. Rick Perry, during a visit that focused primarily on economic issues, drew on a reference to alcoholism to explain his view of homosexuality.
• Perry's comments to the Commonwealth Club of California came after Texas' Republican Convention on Saturday sanctioned platform language allowing Texans to seek voluntary counseling to "cure" being gay.
• The San Francisco Chronicle http://bit.ly/1oWq0qRhttp://bit.ly/1oWq0qR reports that in response to a question about it, Perry said he did not know whether the therapy worked.
• Perry, a former and potential future GOP presidential candidate, was then asked whether he believed homosexuality was a disorder.
• The paper says that the governor responded that "whether or not you feel compelled to follow a particular lifestyle or not, you have the ability to decide not to do that."
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• DETROIT (AP) -- Lawyers for a Georgia family that is trying to reopen a wrongful death lawsuit against General Motors say the company is trying to move the case to federal court so it can use bankruptcy as a shield from the claim.
• The lawyers, Lance Cooper and Jere Beasley, said Wednesday in a statement that GM's court filings run counter to a promise made by GM CEO Mary Barra to fairly compensate families of people killed or those injured in crashes caused by defective ignition switches.
• GM spokesman Greg Martin called the company's filings procedural.
• A federal bankruptcy judge in New York ruled in 2009 that the new GM is shielded from claims stemming from cars made before the company emerged from bankruptcy protection. Instead, the claims go against the old GM, which has limited assets. The judge now is being asked to decide if he will allow claims against the new company.
• Cooper and Beasley say moving the case to federal court would allow the company to use the bankruptcy to send claims to the old GM.
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