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Disgraced pastor Haggard: I was abused as child
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Cue the chorus of geniuses here led by BB who are stuck in 1930, if not 1830, who will no doubt cling to this story as rock solid proof that people are gay because of some traumatic experience as a child. There will no doubt be people reading this story across the country in rural towns sagely nodding their heads, as this story only serves to confirm what they already knew. Matt Taibbi mentions this pathetic ignorance in his book, The Great Derangement, where he spends some time undercover in one of Hagee's evangelical churches down in Texas. The pastor there often harped on how homosexuality is only ever the result of children either getting sexually abused or falling too hard on their heads. Taibbi seems to think the guy sincerely believes what he's peddling too.
As an outed gay man, Haggard could have taken the high road and tried to make something of his life, but instead decided to go to 'don't be gay anymore therapy' which he claimed was successful in curing him. Andrew Sullivan says he can only feel pity for Haggard, and I suppose that not being gay I don't have any idea what kind of personal hell living in the closet is, but I really can't feel any pity for this guy.
Slavery ended over 150 years ago, but we still have those who cling to racism. Women have proven men's equal in every field yet sexism is not resigned completely to the past. Decades from now when homosexuals will have achieved the equality they too deserve, I'm sure we'll still have those few remnants of society which cling to their backwards beliefs and long for good old days of the 20th century when gay bashing was a pastime. But I didn't plan on spending much time in Oklahoma this century anyway.
Disgraced pastor Haggard: I was abused as child
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Cue the chorus of geniuses here led by BB who are stuck in 1930, if not 1830, who will no doubt cling to this story as rock solid proof that people are gay because of some traumatic experience as a child. There will no doubt be people reading this story across the country in rural towns sagely nodding their heads, as this story only serves to confirm what they already knew. Matt Taibbi mentions this pathetic ignorance in his book, The Great Derangement, where he spends some time undercover in one of Hagee's evangelical churches down in Texas. The pastor there often harped on how homosexuality is only ever the result of children either getting sexually abused or falling too hard on their heads. Taibbi seems to think the guy sincerely believes what he's peddling too.
As an outed gay man, Haggard could have taken the high road and tried to make something of his life, but instead decided to go to 'don't be gay anymore therapy' which he claimed was successful in curing him. Andrew Sullivan says he can only feel pity for Haggard, and I suppose that not being gay I don't have any idea what kind of personal hell living in the closet is, but I really can't feel any pity for this guy.
Slavery ended over 150 years ago, but we still have those who cling to racism. Women have proven men's equal in every field yet sexism is not resigned completely to the past. Decades from now when homosexuals will have achieved the equality they too deserve, I'm sure we'll still have those few remnants of society which cling to their backwards beliefs and long for good old days of the 20th century when gay bashing was a pastime. But I didn't plan on spending much time in Oklahoma this century anyway.
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