Are the televangelists really gay and just faking the homophobia too?

[Hubert Flottz]

Are the TV preachers really closet Gays and just being fake anti gay, gay bashers, for show like Foley and some of the other GOP politicians, who they cheer on and campaign for?

I mean, I'm not gay and I don't understand why supposedly straight men like Jerry Foulwill, Pat Robertson and Dokktor Dobson, are so obsessed with what gay folks are doing, unless they are gay too and want in on some of that action.

What gay people do, or don't do, does not bother me, one way or another, as long as they aren't chumping out underage children. So WHY are these guys ALWAYS so focused, on what gay people are doing all the time? Maybe we need to separate Sex and religion BOTH, from politics?

[whistle]

1. Could be!

[Deja Q]

2. Well, they didn't call him 'Oral Roberts' for nothing...

:yoiks:

[Hubert Flottz]

4. GOP Morals are Oral...

They always talk the talk, but they NEVER do, walk the walk.

[Warpy]

3. There's got to be a reason for the dead silence from the pulpit

over Guckert's sleepovers in the White House and now Foley's trying to hustle male pages in Congress and beyond.

I've always said Guckert's client list might offer a clue to the solidarity of the GOP and the timidity of many Democrats.

[meegbear]

5. One has spoken out ...

DOBSON: As it turns out, Mr. Foley has had illicit sex with no one that we know of, and the whole thing turned out to be what some people are now saying was a — sort of a joke by the boy and some of the other pages … By midafternoon yesterday, a rumor emerged that in fact Mark Foley had been pranked by the House pages. It is the first plausible thing I've heard in seven days.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/07/james-dobson-blames-the-pages/

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. I don't think it has to do with being gay - I think they're deviant.

And they surely enjoy gay sex - perhaps with their sons or other boys, maybe twinks, maybe even each other. But they go beyond merely gay to deviant: pedophilia, bestiality, S&M, prostitutes, gang bangs, rapes, etc.

Those who protest too much about other people's sex lives are often, I think, trying to hide the far more extreme sexual deviancy they are doing. Especially republicans and right wing Christians.

[Hubert Flottz]

9. Yup, there's Jim Bakkker, Jim Jones, David Koresh and Swaggart

all been caught up in "deviant" sexual episodes and then Dobson talking about nude showers with his own son? Pat and Jerry doing hour after hour of TV shows about SEX?

The very first preacher I can ever really remember, as a child going to Sunday School, ran off with another man's wife, who was BTW, my fine looking young red headed Sunday School teacher, who as I now recall after all these years, had quite a lot of natural "Spunk and Moxie" of her own!

[noonwitch]

18. Jim Bakker may be a crook and a bit of a hypocrit, but

he never discriminated against gays (considering he was bi, to say the least). He preached a "love all people" message. He specifically stated that although he considered homosexuality a sin, he always said that God loves gays as much as anyone else.


I know that gays have objections (which I totally understand) to anyone who considers homosexuality to be a sin, but I just wanted to differentiate between a guy like Bakker, who preaches God loves everyone equally and the ones who say gays are going to burn in hell and should be discriminated against.

Tammey Faye is a friend to gay men everywhere, btw. Her fall from grace has made her a more compassionate person overall. She is suufering and possibly dying from cancer and all her gay friends are there to support her and love her.

[Hubert Flottz]

20. Jim Bakker is back on TV again...

I'd hoped he'd get a real job, but he's beating the same old dead horse.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

23. Just an aside, S&M doesn't really belong in there with bad deviance. nt

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. I meant the more deviant forms of S&M

I should have been clearer, because you are right - S&M is not, itself, a deviant practice (at least, not IMO).

I'm thinking S&M with real torture, feces, cutting, Marquis de Sade stuff.

[William769]

7. Homosexuals being blamed again.

:eyes:

The homophobia he is getting utterly ridiculous.

Put up, or shut up!

[JohnnyLib2]

8. We're edging into gay bashing again--

really, folks, repressed sexuality is enough to do damage by itself and raising the audience's fear is a proven $$$$raiser. Gets a lot of votes, too.

[opihimoimoi]

11. I think the OP is Bashing the HYPOCRISY of them preachers mentioned

and perhaps, a few others...like, 86756352341`998.09 of them.

If anyone bashes the Gays, its them preacher guys....some of them wearing pink tutus....

[Hubert Flottz]

17. Holy Troll-ers?

The Televangelistofascists, can BLAME the democrats all they want, for trying to nip their political power and the awesome political power, of their cash based church, in the bud...but the biggest negative factor, in the downfall of their bogus kind of self serving religion, is the HYPOCRISY it is built on and based on.

HYPOCRISY is the germ that infects the church and sucks away it's life blood. People finally either see through the bogus BULLSHIT, or they sink right along with the sinking ship.

[opihimoimoi]

34. We should have a PINE OIL DRIVE for them Churches to De Folyate,

De Germ, DisInfect, & Dis Pub.

Besides PineOil has a nice smell to it.

[Hubert Flottz]

42. Foley was quick to blame all his shit on the church guys though.

Wow, with friends like Foley the Preachers are on thin Ice!

[Atman]

21. I agree, thank you.

I have little patience with those who equate ANY mention of homosexuality -- beyond a wedding announcement -- as "gay bashing." By that reasoning, mentioning the Foley scandal AT ALL equates to White Male Bashing. Anglo-phobia? Sometimes things are what they are, and merely talking about them doesn't mean you're "phobic" about the issue. I think you're spot-on...the OP was about the hypocrisy, nothing more. THEY try to whip up the fear by claiming there is an inherent evil just in saying the word "homosexual." The people on DU who try to shut down any such mention aren't much better. A free flow of ideas is a good thing, and yes, even if those ideas are off-based, like the "homophobia" cryers. Dialogue is good...shutting down discussion by calling people "phobic" is lame.

[opihimoimoi]

33. LOL, Thanks. Ever tried mentioning over weight peeps? Thats another raw

nerve for tons of people.

[Atman]

35. Don't say "tons" when mentioning overweight people!

You insensitive sot!

;)

[opihimoimoi]

36. LOL, My Bad....:o)

[mntleo2]

10. They Are Homophobic And ..

...there is not one word Jesus spoke about people who are gay. Not one. And they know it. They use gays to cover up the REAL sin that they know full well foments nothing but war, famine, poverty, and misery. The major sin Jesus spoke about is greed, when he said, "It is harder for the rich man to get into heaven than for a camel to pass through the eye of the needle ..."

Alot of evangelists try to justify being rich by telling the story of how Jerusalem had this small gate where a camel would have to pass through it on its knees. Thus trying to say that, if you remain in prayer and are not sexual, then you can kill, maim, lie and use the law to steal and still remain godly. They would prefer to pretend that sex, especially love for a same sex, is the worse sin, when in reality they practice and encourage others to practice that open and obvious avarice is just fine.

If you read Mark 18 Jesus makes it plain about greed when a rich man asks him what else he can do to be godly and Jesus tells him to sell everything he has, and follow the teachings of Love (my rephrasing). But the man becomes very sad because he is very wealthy. This is when Jesus looks long at this man and utters the famous phrase I have quoted above.

Most mega-churches are into the immediate feel-good, rapturous, experience, so people are constantly barraged with this underlying message that you need to be afraid, very afraid, soon the "bad guys are coming and taking all you own, God does not want you to be poor, and this is why the church leaders are so comfortable, so pay us to fight the unseen forces for you so you can keep it all ..." because well, God loves them more. The elaborate stages, the expensive suits, the huge choirs, this is all glitz to "prove" that God loves them more because hey the end times are coming and they are not participating in the world's sin because they are not gay! Forget that they support greed and in order to keep all they feel entitled to have, they have to support torture, hatred of other religions (which Jesus also condemned)and war ( to get even more wealth).

Homophobia is being used as a smoke and mirrors issue to hide greed. The greed of their religious leaders. It symbolizes the belief that when the end times come, sin will dominate society and corrupt everyone's hearts (but not the "special chosen" if they stay straight). They use gayness to epitomize all sin, but of course greed is not included in this picture, because if it were, it would ask some tough questions most Americans do not want to ask about capitalism and the idea that a majority, even if it is slim, means you don't have to honor the beliefs and needs of the losing group ~ clearly not in the message of Jesus. Most importantly to them, it is another way of planting the fear of becoming corrupted in the hearts of their members, excluding greed as a form of corruption, because that fear generates more contributions in the collection plate so members will think on a sublimal level that the more they contribute, the better chance they have of buying their way into heaven.


My 2 cents and synopsis

Cat In Seattle

[Hubert Flottz]

14. Thanks for your 2 cents...I agree with you.

It was the 2 cent donation, from the very poorest of the poor, that made the impression on Jesus, far more than the bigger bags of money the rich men could afford to give to the church. It's the thought that counts.

I think that greed COULD, very well be the downfall of our country...Greed after all, has been the downfall of so many others before us.

Jerry and Pat should leave the Judging of others to God, if Jerry And Pat truly are, Godly men.

[Subdivisions]

12. They are gay and hate themselves for it. That's why they speak

out so much against being gay. They're dealing with their own demons.

[jus_the_facts]

13. A *southern baptist* choir director at my parents church...married 30yrs..

...with two grown children came out..left his position at the church...divorced and moved away....so you never really know who's who or what's what regardless of the supposed pretense of society's preconceived perceptions. :shrug:

[TlalocW]

15. I definitely think Fred Phelps is

Just based on one photo I saw of him - he was wearing an off-pink cowboy shirt - the kind with the monogram-like etching that traces out the two pockets on the chest and sketchs a few little designs above them, his white cowboy hat, and he was heavily rouged and looked like he had lipstick on. He looked like a former drag queen that had gone to pot and had lost all his fashion sense. Think Nathan Lane from the Birdcage aged 35 years and having terminal depression.

TlalocW

[Binka]

26. Phelps & His Daughter Look At Gay Porn...For Research!

I am not kidding I will try to find the article when the daughter makes this revelation.

[tsuki]

16. Dobson is the one that I would not leave my child with. First,

he's not a theologian, he's a psychologist (does anyone know where he hangs his license?) Second, showering with showering with children and shaking your willie at them to let them know who's boss should be a big HELLOOOOOO.

[Hubert Flottz]

19. LOL...

A strange dude indeed, that Dobson.

[cboy4]

22. And you know what? What you straight people do, or don't do, does

not bother me as long as you're not "chumping" out underage children! :bounce:

[Hubert Flottz]

25. I hear ya...

That little barb was directed at the present sad situation in the US House of Reps. I probably should have made that point more clearly.

Point well taken. :toast:

[Akoto]

24. I do not believe anyone is 100% hetero, which ...

Probably scares them a great deal.

Nothing like the Lord to really cover for your self-hatred.

[Touchdown]

27. Another "All homophobes are gay" thread.

At least Du is consistent. We really do need to have at least 4 a week, and you are doing your part to poison the well some more. Nice job!:hi:

I'll just give my standard response to this one...

And everybody in the KKK is Black too.:eyes:

[Hubert Flottz]

31. Really what the thread was about was...I thought...

Why can't Jerry and Pat mind their own business?

Why can't they worry about their own cases before Saint Peter?

I could care less, where Jerry and Pat wind up spending eternity.

So why should their crazy wants, ideas and whims, or even their private sexual orientations, influence our government, which will partly shape my way of life and my well being, for the rest of my life? These people have much more say so, than you or I have, about the way our government works today, even though their churches don't pay their fair share of taxes, like you and I must do.

[Touchdown]

32. So I should give you a pass on the thread title then?

Years ago Falwell, Robertson, Roberts, Swaggert were also segregationists. Does that make them African American too?

No, they shouldn't control our lives, but that doesn't make them gay. It makes them sanctimonious authoritarians.

[TlalocW]

37. There are really two types of anti-gays, more or less

The first kind would be my sister and brother-in-law. They're very conservatively religious, and they will get pissed about seeing two men walking down the street holding hands, and they'll make a comment about it but then go on with their lives. I don't think they're right of course, but that's their belief system.

The second kind just go on and on about how much they hate homosexuals, go into details about what they think they do, etc. Those are the ones that are more likely to be closeted - not just to the general population but even to themselves.

TlalocW

[Touchdown]

41. Some of them true, but not all.

...and certainly not televangelists/RW operatives. Gay bashing brings in the money. People here don't realize just how successful fund raising is when the gay bashing comes. It's about fortune and control, for these people, not about repressed sexuality. Gleaning some kind of secret homosexual life out of it is homophobia in itself.

[blogslut]

29. Sex

It's a powerful word. Add it in front of another word and it becomes even more powerful. George Will has it wrong. Foley isn't THE Elmer Gantry. He is one among many. There are people that exploit the human experience for profit. They will say anything, push any button, to get you to write that check or call in your cc number.

[neebob]

30. "I'm not gay, but blah blah blah ..."

I can't help wondering why so many people feel the need to preface their comments in this fashion.

[madmusic]

38. They suffer from sexophobia. That's any sex...

That isn't utilitarian.

[Initech]

39. This is the GOP philosophy on sex:

"If we dont get laid, no one gets laid!"

[warrens]

40. Repukes have proved you can be both gay and homophobic. NT

[Moderator]

43. locking

flamebait