This headline had me laughing out loud, so perhaps you'll enjoy it as well. It's about one of the prominent right wing Christian ministers who was recently brought down by scandal after a male prostitute came forward with proof that the Reverend used to
call him for hook ups.
DENVER - One of four ministers who oversaw three weeks of intensive counseling for the Rev. Ted Haggard said the disgraced minister emerged convinced that he is "completely heterosexual."
Haggard also said his sexual contact with men was limited to the former male prostitute who came forward with sexual allegations, the Rev. Tim Ralph of Larkspur told The Denver Post for a story in Tuesday's edition.
"He is completely heterosexual," Ralph said. "That is something he discovered. It was the acting-out situations where things took place. It wasn't a constant thing."
When I read this sort of thing, I almost feel sorry for the hard core Christians. True, they pretty much bring it on themselves with their ridiculous attitudes and prejudices, but it must be hard to live life burdened by such ideological blinkers. Haggard has lived his whole life talking about how homosexuality is a sin and an evil, has married and had children (I think), while secretly knowing he was gay, or at least bi-sexual. He fought his natural urges, but he could never quite overcome them, and by making faggotry such a taboo, and always talking about it, he ensured he was always thinking about it. Imagine how guilt-ridden he was after one of his clandestine sexual encounters? How much self-loathing he felt for his desires?
It's almost sad. What's funny is one of his brainwashed colleagues making his "completely heterosexual" pronouncement, and believing it! Of course Haggard still has the same urges he's always had; he just has a new handle on denying them. Imagine how much happier he would be if he could dump his harpy wife, drop his bullshit version of Christianity, and go live as he wanted to, working somewhere in a real job and doing hot guys he met on Craig's List?
Incidentally, doesn't his picture get creepier the longer you look at it? At first he's kind of a used car salesman, then he's an asshole boss, and then, as you look longer, you start to see hatred and rage bottled up behind that intense grin and those gleaming eyes. They're lucky they found live male whores, rather than dead Boy Scouts, in this guy's wake.
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