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    I'm not even sure these things bear mentioning any more, but this one is particularly awful:

    Big-time gay "curer," anti-gay activist and Baptist minister ... well, do I even need to say it? Oh, and he co-founded the Family Research Council, once again proving Lemur's law, that any organization with the word "family" in the name is psychotic.

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    On April 13, the "rent boy" (whom we'll call Lucien) arrived at Miami International Airport on Iberian Airlines Flight 6123, after a ten-day, fully subsidized trip to Europe. He was soon followed out of customs by an old man with an atavistic mustache and a desperate blond comb-over, pushing an overburdened baggage cart.

    That man was George Alan Rekers, of North Miami — the callboy's client and, as it happens, one of America's most prominent anti-gay activists. Rekers, a Baptist minister who is a leading scholar for the Christian right, left the terminal with his gay escort, looking a bit discomfited when a picture of the two was snapped with a hot-pink digital camera.

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    For decades, George Alan Rekers has been a general in the culture wars, though his work has often been behind the scenes. In 1983, he and James Dobson, America's best-known homophobe, formed the Family Research Council, a D.C.-based, rabidly Christian, and vehemently anti-gay lobbying group that has become a standard-bearer of the nation's extreme right wing. Its annual Values Summit is considered a litmus test for Republican presidential hopefuls, and Sean Hannity and Ann Coulter have spoken there. (The Family Research Council would not comment about Rekers's Euro-trip.)

    He has also influenced American government, serving in advisory roles with Congress, the White House, and the Department of Health and Human Services and testifying as a state's witness in favor of Florida's gay adoption ban.

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    I guess they hate being gay.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sasaki Kojiro View Post
    I guess they hate being gay.
    Pretty much. Thread closed.

    Chances are that they're ashamed that what they are is so far from what they want. It's a sad situation. The same rule also applies to those who ridicule them.

    Maybe they're just trying to deflect attention?


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    Quote Originally Posted by Vladimir View Post
    Maybe they're just trying to deflect attention?
    There's a whole theory of this, something like the "shield of virtue," or some such formulation, about how people who harbor "shame" behaviors can make up for it by posting more and more aggressively as the virtuous. My Google-fu is failing me, though, and I can't locate either a summary of the theory or the name of the author. Shame on me.

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    I imagine that a fair number of former alcoholics who preach about avoiding alcohol, end up drinking again. We don't really charge them with hypocrisy though--it doesn't make much sense to criticize someone who knows what is right, and preaches what is right, but has trouble doing it because it's hard.

    The difference is, they are correct that being an alcoholic is a bad thing, and the priests are wrong.

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    I am reminded of an ancient proverb: He who smelt it, dealt it.
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    Default Re: Why Is Seemingly Every Anti-Gay Activist a Closet Case?

    Quote Originally Posted by Vladimir View Post
    Pretty much. Thread closed.

    Chances are that they're ashamed that what they are is so far from what they want. It's a sad situation. The same rule also applies to those who ridicule them.

    Maybe they're just trying to deflect attention?
    lol you say "Thread Closed" and it's still opened
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    Not sure, but the comic relief is much appreciated.
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    gay or not gay, that was the basic human rights in sexuality... when you didn't agree about that, you can close your eyes, and watch your behind...

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    Because reaching that level of hatred for something so innocuous requires at least a certain level of self loathing. Sure I can understand disliking gays, but to get out in the streets and make it one's life goal to hurt them requires a deeper level of intimacy with the subject, no pun intended. That's my guess.

    I do disagree with the article on one point, the linkage of these activities to the right wing in general. I believe this is based more specifically on evangelicals. Many right wing people do not hate gay people. They may have principled disagreements with the legal specifics of something like gay marriage, but the real hatred comes from the religious (I do realize there is significant overlap, though).

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    You got to think of ingroups and outgroups.

    In their little bible belt area, homosexuality is the big sin. They have these homosexual thoughts and they go "oh no, I might be infected! I know, I will hate on teh gay".

    Then they go around hating homosexuals and making their life awful, that way, they can go "I am definitely not one of those homosexuals, ho ho ho".

    They continue and continue till they grow weary of fighting it and go "This sucks, I am going to join in the gay!" so one minute superhomophobe, next minute "Hello Boys!".

    Classic self-denial case.
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