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Playinghardball Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-09-11 10:25 AM
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Gay ex-NJ Gov. Jim McGreevey mentoring female prisoners
Source: Raw Story
By Kase Wickman

After resigning a governorship, admitting a homosexual affair with a staffer and being denied a priesthood, there's apparently only one place to go: jail.

Jim McGreevey, the former governor of New Jersey who resigned in 2004 after revealing an affair with his homeland security adviser Golan Cipel, is now a spiritual adviser to 40 female inmates at the Hudson Country Correctional Center, New Jersey's largest jail, the Associated Press reported.

"Prison ministry is something that spoke very deeply to me – allowing women and men to reclaim their lives, to go beyond our personal circumstances," McGreevey said.

McGreevey attempted to enroll in seminary to become an Episcopal priest, but the Episcopal Diocese of Newark denied him -- a source said, "it was not for being gay, but for being a jackass."

More at: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/08/09/gay-ex-nj-gov-jim-mcgreevey-mentoring-female-prisoners/

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