Former governor still gay Jim McGreevey has started the path to become a priest. http://www.nypost.com/seven/05032007/news/...anne_garvey.htm Left Catholic church, joined Episcopal. A good case of life stranger than fiction I'd say. Any Episcopalians, Anglicans or anybody else want to comment?
This isn't half as strange as Kean University hiring him to teach Ethics. :blink: Most of the people I know wish he would just quietly fade away.
I don't know much about the priesthood, but he's been married, twice and has 2 children. Is that allowed? I know he's gay or bi-sexual, but what about the marriages and children? He obviously doesn't care about how his behavior is affecting his children. I, too, wish he would quietly fade into the background, but it's New Jersey.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(etyler88 @ May 3 2007, 11:53 AM) [snapback]434770[/snapback]</div> I think a better question is what congregation would allow him? Isn't his partner choice 'morally reprehensible'? Not that there is anything wrong with that.
I really don't care either, but being from Jersey, I had to jump in. At least the Episcopal church allows gay clergy to serve openly, rather than closeted like the Catholic church.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(larkinmj @ May 3 2007, 01:25 PM) [snapback]434835[/snapback]</div> This is the real issue.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(larkinmj @ May 3 2007, 12:25 PM) [snapback]434835[/snapback]</div> Are pedophiles necessarily gay? If the catholic priests were just gay, they could just cavort with each other no?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(burritos @ May 3 2007, 02:25 PM) [snapback]434868[/snapback]</div> Most definitely not- there is absolutely no relationship between homosexuality and pedophilia. I recently heard a psychologist on the radio say that the majority of pedophiles are heterosexual, although I don't have a reference for that. Unfortunately, the scandal with the Catholic church has reinforced that stereotype in the minds of many people as the most publicized incidents involved altar boys (there have been cases of girls abused by priests as well). Since the Catholic church does not permit priests to indulge in any kind of sexual activity, gay or straight, and they also have an intolerant view of homosexuality, whatever they do has to be illicit. <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(charliem @ May 3 2007, 02:42 PM) [snapback]434880[/snapback]</div> I just returned from a road trip to visit my parents who live in Georgia. Driving down I-95 through the South, there are billboards on one side of the highway that say "Topless 24 Hours", "Live Nude", etc. On the other side are the billboards that say "Jesus is Lord" and ads for the Bible Outlet Store. I am still trying to figure that out.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Proco @ May 3 2007, 09:08 AM) [snapback]434784[/snapback]</div> I heard that in his book he wrote that he was having sex in a book store with his partner while his wife was pregnant in the hospital?!? :blink: Can anyone confirm this? Wildkow
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ May 3 2007, 02:05 PM) [snapback]434911[/snapback]</div> Yeah, I saw an interview with the wife on TV. While the wife was giving birth, he was starting an affair. Gay, straight, or other, I don't care what sexuality you are, anyone who does something like that seems a bit of a sociopath to me.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Wildkow @ May 3 2007, 02:05 PM) [snapback]434911[/snapback]</div> A bit obsessed with 'deviant' sexual behaviour, are we? Shall we post pictures? A video? Would you like to get a sniff of his underpants, to see if you detect dried semen? It's okay, we respect the "choices" you've made, as to how to live your life... [laughing] Seriously, an affair, hetero/homo, whatever, is repugnant. Period.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pinto Girl @ May 3 2007, 01:14 PM) [snapback]434962[/snapback]</div> LOL! :lol: My avatar is an animated banana sodomizing a cow and you can't figure that out on your own?!? :lol: LOL! The second line of your post, BTW Euwwwwww, is a reflection of your own sexual urges and fetishes girl, I can't for the life of me figure out how you got there from my post! LOLOLOL! [attachmentid=7843] Wildkow p.s. BTW everytime I see this icon/smiley in my collection I think of you [attachmentid=7847] that's not deviant is it?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(MegansPrius @ May 3 2007, 12:58 PM) [snapback]434951[/snapback]</div> While she was giving birth!?! That is a bit off, maybe Pinto Girl can give us some insight into that type of behavior? BTW, my bad, I thought he had a book out and I thought it was the actual act of sex not something in furtherence of the affair. Although I would guess that the act of sex would also count in this manner also. Maybe Pinto Girl with her life experiences in this area could clear this up? [attachmentid=7844] [attachmentid=7846] [attachmentid=7844] Wildkow
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Pinto Girl @ May 3 2007, 02:14 PM) [snapback]434962[/snapback]</div> Agreed - I think the first problem is his deceptiveness. I saw his soon-to-be ex wife on Oprah, and she said even when he was found out he was trying to manipulate the media and everyone around him in an attempt to control the damage. I guess it never occured to him that people might be upset with him more for being a deceptive liar that cheated on his wife and was subjecting his kids to a terrible embarassment than that he was gay. A true politician.
McGreevey, another liberal democrat. I should say VERY liberal. I wonder if Slick Willie considers being gay, sex?