Texas conservatives can't overlook candidate's past cross-dressing ways [View All]

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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.

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The examples of Republican moral hypocrisy just keep on rolling in. It's really rather incredible.