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Or you can have excellent gaydar . . . neeenooooneeeenoooneeneeneeneenee! (This is the sound of gaydar in my head.) I am strong in the gaydar. I don't think I will accidently marry a gay man. However, bisexual people set it off too, so sometimes I am pleasantly surprised by hot Fosse dancers coming on to me, when I was sure they had a crush on my boyfriend . . . which they actually do . . . yes.
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I'm going to have to take a somewhat contrary position here. The man has set himself up as a leader of a community, and preached a message of intolerance against a lifestyle he was secretly engaged in. While I can feel sympathy for how tough this might have made his life, and how much of an internal struggle he may have suffered with, it is not very impressive to me in the grand scheme of things. It is a problem of his own making, for the most part, and rather than deal with it, he projected it onto other people and actively worked to prolong the misery and suffering of others.
In the process, he actively lied and misled his congregation, and parlayed their good faith into a position of even greater power (the weekly confabs with the President didn't just happen because he had a pretty smile).
I hope something good comes of this, but the likeliest scenario is not so good.
Re: Mega-churches, I just learned that the one in our local area does not serve the poor. When someone comes to that church looking for food, they refer them to our much smaller church. I was told that's fairly typical behavior for Evangelical "Christian" mega-churches.
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Bob: LOTS of gay people are VERY homophobic before they learn to accept themselves.
Especially if they've grown up very religious in a red state.
Granted, few take it as far as Mr Haggard.
I would be interested to see what he's made of his life in a couple of years. What he's managed to salvage and how far he's come as far as self acceptance.
He could be a prodigal son for our little Rainbow family. Or he might slip farther into self hatred and be even more venomous toward the people he should be embracing.
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