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14 Aug 2004 08:17:27 PM |
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Hey, James E. McGreevey: It Has Nothing To Do With Homophobia |
http://www.bushcountry.org/news/columnists/Grant-Joseph/c_081404_joseph_swank_james_mcgreevey_homophobia.htm
Hey, James E. McGreevey: It Has Nothing To Do With Homophobia
By Joseph Grant Swank
Once again, the sick blame the well for being sick.
I couldn't continue to watch Night Line last night. Ted Koppel had on there
some woman who went on and on about James E. McGreevey's problems stemming
from society's meanness against sodomists. I thought more of Ted than his
permitting that.
As soon as the woman started in on her party line of homophobia, I switched
the channel. So forgive me if later on in the telecast she went on for a
reasonable response to Ted's questions. When these supposedly intelligent
people show themselves to be wearing the dunce cap from the very start,
intelligent watchers don't waste further precious time.
The New Jersey Governor-now-resigned McGreevey's plight has nothing to do
with homophobia. Culture is not to blame. Society had nothing to do with his
consensual alliance with another male. It's his own homosexual tendency
matching up with homosexual activity. Leave it at that for starters and
enders.
But the sodomists immediately want to make McGreevey their weeping poster
boy. And the liberal media falls in line with that dysfunctional take.
McGreevey just may become the latest sodomist martyr in the line of martyrs
for the cause. Poor Jimmy who has had to endure and will continue to endure
the homophobia of a hard-hearted society. Give me a break.
Excuse me, but we who are moral did not set Jimmy up for the fall. He did.
We did not gear his sexual activities in the direction of betrayal to wife,
children and family. He did. We did not have anything to do with his
clandestine maneuverings within his own administration in order to favor his
male partner. He did. And on and on.
It all starts and stops with McGreevey. Society looks on. But society had
nothing to do with McGreevey's tangled web.
In his elongated speech, McGreevey took full advantage of his audience for
his own catharsis. He used the announcement as his own therapeutic couch. In
other words, McGreevey pronounced publicly his sin, his wrong, his shame.
McGreevey gave forth his own introspective analysis of the dilemma - past
tense, present tense. McGreevey used the media to gain sympathy from other
sodomists. McGreevey acted out the handsome, articulate American in search
of an abhorrent playing field.
It all starts and stops with McGreevey. It has nothing to do with his
community or the worldwide heterosexual culture. If he continues with his
sodomist dysfunction, appealing for sympathy to his lifestyle - "I'm a gay
American - then his sin will continue.
After all, it was McGreevey who used the terms "wrong" and "shame" in
relation to what he did. It related to not only what he was - a homosexual -
but what he did - sodomy. Therefore, one can't have it both ways when it
comes to ethics. Either what he was / is and what he did is legitimate and
laudable or what he was / is and what he did is "wrong" and "shameful."
McGreevey himself concluded it to be wrong and shameful.
Since what McGreevey confessed is indeed wrong and shameful - as his
Catholic upbringing has instructed him - then he cannot blame society. Why
can't a self-proclaimed logical governor in his mid-40s understand that?
One attaches wrong and shame to one's own soul. It's by free will a person
decides on wrong and shame. In this particular case, society had absolutely
nothing to do with McGreevey's angst-driven circumstance. It's all about
McGreevey - plain and simple.
So, McGreevey, lay off society. We didn't have anything to do with your
confessional litany on Thursday.
--
Atheism teaches that there is no God, hence no God-given rights. That
ideology coupled with a system that believed in the superiority of the state
at the expense of the individual was murderously synergistic.
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| User: "Roger" |
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15 Aug 2004 12:45:38 AM |
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"Dana" <#$%@%$#.com> wrote in message
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http://www.bushcountry.org/news/columnists/Grant-Joseph/c_081404_joseph_swank_james_mcgreevey_homophobia.htm
Hey, James E. McGreevey: It Has Nothing To Do With Homophobia
By Joseph Grant Swank
<snip>
From http://mensnewsdaily.com/archive/s/swank/02/swank120102.htm
Joseph Grant Swank, Jr., is a Pastor from New Hope Church, Windham, Maine.
His previous pastorates include Calgary, Alberta; Indianapolis IN; Akron OH;
Fishkill NY; Manchester CT; and Walpole MA. He is a graduate of an
accredited college (BA) and seminary (M Div), with graduate work at Harvard
Divinity School.
Pastor Swank is the author of 5 books and over 2000 articles in various
Protestant and Catholic magazines, journals and newspapers. He writes a
weekly religion column for PORTLAND PRESS HERALD newspaper, Portland ME. He
is also a teacher at Alternative Learning School for at-risk youths.
Pastor Swank has been married for 41 years and has 3 adult children.
Other articles by Joseph Grant Swank can be found in the Men's News Daily
archive.
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