Courtesy of HuffPo:
"My Husband's Not Gay," a TV special about a group of Mormon men living in Salt Lake City who are attracted to other men but have chosen to marry women is headed to TLC.
The special will follow couples Jeff and Tanya, Pret and Megan, Curtis and Tera, and a 35-year-old bachelor named Tom, according to The Wrap.
Quotes from the trailer include "With our faith in God we believe we believe we can overcome anything," "I like to say I've chosen an alternative to an alternative lifestyle" and "I'm interested in men I'm just not interested in men."
This almost cries out for a Jeff Foxworthy like bit called "You might be gay if..."
You might be gay if....you like to nibble the batter off of your corndog before swallowing it whole.
You might be gay if...the first thing you notice when you see your beautiful totally nude wife emerge from the shower is that she's done something different with her hair color.
You might be gay if...you cannot quote any football stats but have memorized every episode of "This Old House."
And you might be gay if....you are the male half of any of these couples.
I swear leave it to religious people to convince themselves that by denying the love they so desperately seek that they are somehow making God love them more.
Just goes to show that denial is not simply a river in Egypt.
Is Marcus Bachman the star of the show?
ReplyDeleteAs an ex-Mormon, I can say they basically deny this because the gays know they would be excommunicated if they outed themselves.
ReplyDeleteCouldn't leave it at you might be gay if you're attracted to men. You had to throw those other offensive stereotypes in didn't you. You're no better than any other homophobe. Hypocrite!
ReplyDeleteOk. I'm gay and I'm laughing. Lighten up
DeleteI think the guy running this blog has proven repeatedly that he's far from a homophobe.
Anonymous 11:08 -- Second that; Gryphen is totally not homophobic. I thought his jokes were spot on, not stereotypes at all.
DeleteAnother gay here LOL with Gryphen. DGM needs to lighten up.
DeleteQ for the gays, you like "This Old House"?
DeleteI really never knew that.
Another gay here who is proud to have Gryphen as an ally. He is spot on...
DeleteI get so annoyed when when being gay is equated as having an "alternative lifestyle". Using the word alternative suggests that a conscious decision was made to determine your sexual orientation. Trust me I know my sexual orientation was not a decision, it is how I was born. I made the decision to come out of the closet and not live a lie....
@11:51 ... it is pretty easy to pick the "gay houses" in pretty much any neighborhood. Look for the best colour palettes, landscaping, and accessories. Ten to one a gay person either lives there or had a hand in putting the property together.
How about a show of bisexual snowmachine racers from Alaska? Todd??
ReplyDeleteThat would be power bottom bisexual snow machine racers in his case. But that's OK too.
DeleteMerry Christmas, KC - Rush Limbaugh Gets Booted from the FM Dial
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/25/1354063/-Merry-Christmas-KC-Rush-Limbaugh-Gets-Booted-from-the-FM-Dial
Someone sent this link to me today.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/iowa-view/2014/12/24/open-letter-larry-gay-marriage/20887235/
Fuck you - Lily Allen
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gqFZjfFGuM
My Horrible Right-Wing Past: Confessions of a One-Time Religious Right Icon
ReplyDeleteI am a white, privileged, well-off, 61-year-old former Republican religious right-wing activist who changed his mind about religion and politics long ago. The New York Times profiled my change of heart, saying that to my former friends I’m considered a “traitorous prince” since my religious-right family was once thought of as “evangelical royalty.”
Only in the Mafia, the British Royal family and big-time American religion is a nepotistic rise to power seen as normal. And I was good at it. And I hated it while hypocritically profiting from it; until, that is, in the mid-1980s, I quit.
These days I describe myself as an atheist who believes in God.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/my-horrible-right-wing-past-confessions-one-time-religious-right-icon?akid=12614.34521.dHsT-n&rd=1&src=newsletter1029259&t=11
Frank Schaeffer has long ago disavowed his previous past. He has written extensively both about himself and about the religious right.
DeleteThis is a relatively brief piece that will make clear the agenda that we will be confronting in the new Congress - although to be fair, the Republican leaders of the House and Senate also have to confront it.
Schaeffer is considered a traitor by many on the religious right, because, as he notes, he was considered as royalty because of his father. He does not care. As he writes now
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/12/25/1354077/-Confessions-of-a-One-Time-Religious-Right-Icon
I've got an ex-SIL who's into child porn and his grandfather that sexually abused my granddaughter. Can we give it up for Mormons? Wooo HOOOO!
ReplyDeleteO/T Stopping by to wish you and your daughter Happy Holidays!
ReplyDeleteSomeone should educate those Mormons about the "alternative lifestyle". Mine is so ordinary, just like anyone who is allegedly straight that I know, except for the sex part.
ReplyDeleteBut wait though, there is more. I forgot for a moment about the married "straight" men I've been with (what a shock it would be if their wives found out). But you know, it's perfectly OK because that's what men do.
So, Mormon men, hear this: being "gay" is being human, just like being "straight". Any religion or person that preaches otherwise can go fuck themselves.
my usual response to this bullshit is "So you're saying God keeps making the same "mistakes" over and over"? People like YOU judge what God's created? tsk tsk tsk.
ReplyDeleteWhat's amazing is it doesn't have to be this way. My first daughter is marrying into a devout Christian family, and for the most part, we all get along. I get questions like "What DOES one get for Atheists as a gift on Christmas?" My son is dating an Episcopalian girl whose got the coolest family in the world. We laugh and cry at the same things and we have pretty honest conversations about the Bible, Humanism, etc. Will things change? Who knows? But for now, it seems we all have our kids happiness front and center.