FYI, I am a self-professed evanjellyfish Christian who is nowhere near as together as guys like Haggard want us to pretend to be.
I think it's so funny, really... the so-called gay community and the so-called Christian community have the exact same hangup. It's a Western, capitalist/dominionist attitude that says that if "we" are going to "win", we have to present the finest, healthiest and sanest-looking examples of our breed to the world so that the face they associate with our cause is the best possible one. No one, neither the gays nor the straights, can stomach the raw underbelly of real-life scenarios starring real-life people with warts and scrapes and dents and baggage. Just like the Thumper crowd can't have a broken man like Haggard as their "face", neither can the gay community have a man with a rough edge or two as their "face". I guess the ghost of Donna Reed, et al, lives on... the name of the game is spin.
--PSB
07/05 |
