Another week, another gay Republican scandal......

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Originally posted by 4moreyears
I think he was a pastor. Possibly a supporter of the republican party but I was not familar with him winning any election for public office.

One does not need to hold elective office to be cuntsidered a "politician" or in politics.

KKKarl Rove is a politician

Jesse Jackson is a politician

If you have weekly converstaions with POTUS regarding the Evangelical Base of The Republican Party you're a "politician"


Don't pretend otherwise.

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Originally posted by 4moreyears
I would not say it is the right wing dogma that is the problem. It is the choices this individual made.

Depends on what you mean by "choices". If you're repeating the ridiculous myth that sexual orientation is a "choice", then that is especially ridiculous in this case. Clearly Pastor Ted, as a right wing fundagelical would "choose" not to be gay, if he were capable of making that choice. Obviously he tried to do just that, by attempting a heterosexual life which, until last week, he seemed to be getting away with, in the eyes of most people.

But it doesn't matter. In the end (pardon the pun) he was still a gay man who hated himself so much he had to take drugs to deal with his true self, which even now he labels as "dark and repulsive". And now he's not only fucked up his own life, but that of 6 other people (the wife and kids) who weren't given the choice of whether or not to have a self-hating self-destructive father/husband. Not to mention 14,000 or so people who considered him to be some sort of spiritual leader.

I'd like to believe something positive might come out of this whole thing, like maybe this church having a more realistic attitude towards gays, but somehow I doubt it.