People can pay a huge price for being gay. You can lose your family and community and many are taught they’ll even lose their eternal soul to hell. They can have a great deal of incentive to deny that they are gay. Openly hating gays is a way of proving they aren’t gay. They might be trying to prove they aren’t gay even to themselves. There’s no hatred quite like self hatred.
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That makes a lot of sense, so thank you.
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Oh, LORD! Ain’t that the truth? 
I was initially SO excited when the movie first came out… until I watched it. Granted, it was “somewhat” entertaining in its own lopsided way, but it pretty much totally ignored the overall “lesson” (for lack of a better word) of the book. Even so, I can’t take credit away from Forest Whitaker. He was an excellent comic-relief sidekick. 
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It’s NOT your autism. The religious folk do everything they can to imitate their god. They all want to be “God-like”. Therefore, “Do as I say, and not as I do,” is a key axiom in achieving that goal.
Actually, he probably used a Pay-for-a-Pal account.
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Thank you. That is reassuring, as I sometimes have problems communicating.
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The key point to remember, is that every rant against the purportedly “sinful” behaviour of others, and every accusation issued by reich wing conservative Christians, will subsequently be found upon investigation to be an unintended confession. They simply can’t help themselves.
From Ted Haggard’s fun times with methamphetamine and intermittent knob polishing, to the hilarity that is the Bachmanns, not to mention the numerous “pastors” who featured in the news after being arrested for playing “Hide the Sausage” with 12 year old girls, or the Catholic priests who were found to have a predilection for altar boys’ bottoms, the examples are legion.
Indeed, a couple of the names on my nice little list were also arrested for getting frisky with farm animals. Including the specimen who posted an advertisement on Craigslist seeking a dog for happy horizontal times. Then there’s the interesting individual who was found dead in his bath with, er, unusual insertions.
Several of these are probably featured on The Smoking Gun website, which is always a hilarious venue to visit, if you want to find out what assorted figures have been posing for mugshots after a range of acts of misconduct. Be advised that mixed in with the targets for enjoyment of schadenfreude humour, you’ll also find the creepy, the sick and the twisted, such as Dennis Rader and Warren Jeffs.
Recently, a couple of pages on Farcebook have been running with the “Not a drag queen” meme, featuring a range of specimens from predictable demographic segments whose long conversations with the FBI, have involved such matters as extensive collections of torture porn with five year olds, and other pastimes best left to be perused by those with a depleted uranium GI tract. Turn over even a few slime covered rocks in the world of conservative evangelical religion, and the creatures discovered upon doing so are far worse than any slash horror film monsters.
Even a source such as Wikipedia now has pages devoted to what are rather coyly termed “conservative Christian scandals”, but dig deeper and it won’t be long before you’re knee deep in “it puts the lotion on its skin, or else it gets the hose” territory. Conservative evangelical Christianity has long been a magnet for the would-be Harkkonens of this world, who readily find gullible flocks of mythology fanboys ready to forgive them of nameless atrocities, so long as they make the right noises about Republican Jeebus, and aim bile at all the favourite reich wing hate totems, be it atheists, “liberals”, “evolutionists” or anyone whose consenting adult partners don’t conform to Palaeolithic stereotypes.
The landscape of American Christianity is in many places a festering, gangrenous cesspit, and you are advised always to assume the worst when exploring its dark and nasty regions.
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My entry: Ken Ham.
Ham is the founder of the creation museum and the ark encounter, both in Kentucky. He’s gotten lots of money and other benefits from taxpayers for both of these “attractions” and contributes a lot to scientific illiteracy among the children who are taken to the museum and the ark on school field trips. He also started the answers in genesis website, which is a well-known purveyor of creationist nonsense.
Kent Hovind gets an honorable mention. He’s just as whacky as Ham, but not as successful in bilking taxpayers. His dinosaur adventure land is a pitiful joke. Hovind is also a convicted felon who spent almost ten years in federal prison. He’s also been convicted of domestic violence. Has a bogus Ph.D. from a diploma mill.
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Joel Osteen is pretty bad. He’s a conman who peddles religion and collects a big pay day off of the backs of all of the poor Christian suckers that he fools.
I think the prosperity preachers, of whom Osteen is one, are despicable, and that Kenneth Copeland is their king. Their scams are so open and blatant it boggles my mind how people fall for it. I’ve never heard of anyone with proof of an actually healing, and prospering after sending them money must be as allusive as winning the lottery. These people are scum for preying on the most vulnerable. What kind of God would allow this to go on in his name? Another reason on my long list of reasons to not believe there is a god.
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