Perhaps she buys beauty products via ads on NewsMax.

That’s the thing: Gary could be anybody. A Generic Old Puppert.

Truly, he is Universal Man.

Oh, I don’t know… maybe she had really, really bad skin?

Kent Hovind is going to jail, as well.

If you don’t know Hovind, Pharyngula can fill you in. Basically, he’s a religious charlatan who has made a career out of tax fraud and trying to discredit evolution. They finally busted him on tax fraud, and he’s going off to the pokey for a long, long time. His wife might go to jail, too.

The only thing that could make this week any better would be if somebody finally managed to bring down Jim Dobson.

I’m celebrating tonight. Who’s joining me?

They forgave Jim Bakker.

They forgave Jimmy Swaggart. Even after he got caught with protsitutes twice. Even after he told them “God says it’s none of your damn business!”.

But it’s still going to be funny as hell watching the “confessions” unfold over the next few days/weeks/months.

And Gentlewoman, I really don’t feel sorry for his wife – she’s probably as much of a fundie bigot homohater as her husband is, and I cannot spare the slightest bit of sympathy for any people who sponsor the amount of harm, misery, and human suffering these sorts of asswipes do.

I’m sure everybody here has heard about the evangelically sponsored “ex-gay” movement. If you take some time to look around and read the words and testimonies of people who are involved with it, you’ll come away from it unbelievably horrified and repulsed. The worst thing I read in all of the stuff I’ve looked through was a newspaper article describing a workshop for women who are married to these “ex-gay” men. One of the women talked about how helpful it was to be able to talk to other women in her situation. She described her situation as being married to a man who “often found touching her skin to be distasteful and unpleasant”.

I swear, it was without a doubt the most perverted sentence I’ve ever read in the English language. What kind of sicko makes someone else pervert their own desires to the degree that touching their own spouse makes them sick? I have a number of gay friends, and not a one of them is “repulsed” by touching me – they all like to hug me, and curl up next to me on the sofa when we watch movies, and things like that. They like physical contact with me – as long as it isn’t sexual contact with me. Hell, every human being on the planet likes physical contact with another person. What do you have to do to a person to get them to the point that *touching* another person – not intimately, just touching – makes them sick?

Fuckers like Haggard are the closest thing I’ve ever seen to the living embodiment of true evil. I will never, ever, ever shed a tear for them or for anyone who supports their evil homophobic agenda. Ever single horrible thing that ever happens to them in their entire lives is still less than they deserve.

I feel bad for his kids, though.

The critical thing is the Meth. Taking meth allows him to engage in the homosexual behaviour, as his doltish followers will believe that the meth caused the homosexuality and inhibited his recollection of the ongoing affair. He can not admit the meth taking yet, as it will be to pat, so he admits being in the room with the meth and the homo, and, well, the devil took over just like in ‘Angel Heart’ and he does not remember what really happened.

So he admits the Meth, then admits remembering taking it, and them remembers the passive sex, and then the active sex, and so on.

They will forgive him. Just wait.

thankyou, i’m here all night.

-Warren Zevon (of course)

*waves at herr doktor bimler* Did I read upthread, or on another thread, that Mehitabel has yakked on the keyboard again? Naughty girl! Look at it this way, doc, no one ever said living with a supermodel was easy.

Jillian my favorite part of this whole sad Haggard saga is what I referenced upthread, his first denial was something about not having sex with that guy ‘in Denver,’ but not denying that he had sex with him anywhere else. Lots of wiggle room in a denial like that.

My bet: he cops to the drugs and goes into rehab (there clearly need to be more rehab centers, perhaps some exclusively for Republicans, like the ones for celebrities). When he’s done with rehab, he joins one of the ‘Pray Teh Ghey Away’ tours, and pretends not to be gay some more, and tries to make other closeted gays to feel even more miserable and guilty enough to join the cult, too. It doesn’t pay as well as being the adored Pastor Ted of the 14,000 member mega-church who chats with the POTUS once a week, but it’s a living. And it keeps you out of prison on drug charges if you play it right. See, for example, Limbaugh, Rush.

As always, I am sorry for his wife, and hope she gets some help and comes out of this OK. I suppose it’s too much to ask that she join one of the support groups for women in her position, because I am sure that, like most ‘good Christian women,’ she is NOT married to a gay man, just a man who ‘had a drug problem, but now he’s over it, praise jeebus.’

I personallly know more than one woman who has had her life made considerably more complicated by falling in love with and/or marrying and having kids with a closeted gay man. I hope his kids are young enough so that the media circus passes them by.

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