"I have struggled with homosexuality since I was a 5-year-old boy. . . . I can't tell you the number of nights I have cried myself to sleep, begging God to take this away."
What is it with the name "Lonnie"? Are all guys named Lonnie homophobic hypocrites? Hmmm.
A notoriously anti-gay Southern Baptist Convention heavyweight who resigned his post for engaging in "offering to engage in an act of lewdness" (read: seeking meat whistle lessons from an undercover cop posing as a male prostitute), Latham has now asserted his right to solicit sex from that cop.
Amazingly, Latham was
acquitted of the charge of "offering to engage in an act of lewdness".
His high standing in the Southern Baptist Convention and rabid
homophobic rants might have had something to do with it. In any case,
SBC's pressure caused Lonnie to admit that he had actually done the
deed and "needed help."
George
Rekers has a credibility problem. Check that: he has a problem in
thinking that there are people dumb enough to believe him. His luggage
boy rent boy story became the laugh riot of the internet and it was
evident from the start that Rekers himself wasn't the profoundly
intelligent "expert" in sexual orientation as he had been portrayed and
that his work was criticized for skewing research results. Perhaps
the most valuable thing that came out of the salacious story was that
organizations like Family Research Council and America Family
Association had been using Rekers as a "star witness" in cases
involving gay adoption. The backpeddling of these organizations was
classic: although Rekers was a founder of Family Research Council,
current President Tony Perkins literally said "George who?"
Update:
Now we have "Bishop" Eddie Long, perhaps the most brilliant star in the fermament of homophobic hypocrisy. One of his accusers, Jamal Parris has appeared on television calling Long a "predator" and a "monster." In his Sunday sermon, Long likened himself to David battling Goliath:
"I feel like David against Goliath, but I've got five rocks and I haven't thrown one yet."
"Predator," "monster."
Eddie, you'd better start throwing those rocks now.
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