Believe it or not when I first arrived at the church I now serve, it was very conservative. There were anti-gay, anti-pornography activists in the congregation. I soon discovered in many of the same families there was incest, adultery, pornography and all kinds of aberration. I soon began to see a correlation between the people obsessed with other people’s sexual behavior, and the people who could not handle their own. My heart breaks when I see the agony in the eyes of people who are trying to deal with their own demons, by scapegoating someone else. Some of them hope that, since they cannot curb their own fantasies, that they will please God by punishing others. While protecting others from these people is our duty, we can still grieve for them when we consider their pain.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/01/grant-storms-arrested-masturbating_n_830000.html
Will you admit that this applies to you, too, Jim? That you, Jim Rigby, are in fact gay, and that you refuse to admit it publicly? Or do I have to go public to out you?
Go for it, dude.
” I soon began to see a correlation between the people obsessed with other people’s sexual behavior, and the people who could not handle their own.”
That’s YOU, my friend. I think you could help all of us…why won’t you? Please, Jim–you know the truth. Please don’t make me prove it. Please. Now is the time for us. You must know that most of us know it by now anyway. Don’t you truly believe there’s nothing to be ashamed of? And you must know that i have the means to prove it. Hello, smart phone. I don’t want to have to be this way but if you won’t come out for us what am I to do?
I agree there would be nothing to be ashamed if I were gay, the only problem is I’m not. So we both know you’re bluffing. I’m just sad that you think the only reason a straight person would stand up for you is if he or she had ulterior motives. There are tens of thousands of us straight allies that are working on your behalf. We’re not fixated on your sexuality, we’re fixated on your humanity. I’ve done a funeral for a gay man beaten to death in a hate crime, I’ve cried with same sex mothers who lost their children to abuse ex-husbands because of homophobia. I’ve spoken with teenagers considering suicide because they had been made to feel ashamed of who they are. If that doesn’t move one to activism, nothing would.