ACLJ Fires Attorney After Being Outed

and a professor at Regent University law school,

For a few more minutes anyway.

No point in having a witch hunt if you don’t find a few witches and do whatever you can to them. Guy is lucky they can’t legally burn him at the stake any more.

Maybe he thinks he’s not gay, he thinks he has “sinful” desires and hates himself for it. I think that’s why so many of the top leaders of the anti-gay movement secretly have sex with their own gender. They don’t even see themselves as gay, just horny.

Even Ted Haggard could only admit “if I were 19 I would call myself bisexual” no you ARE bi. Just because you have a wife and kids you love and want to stay with doesn’t change what you are. But he doesn’t see it that way.

It is hard because they bring so much pain to other people, but at the same time they are miserable self-hating wretches, and if the world was more fair they could be open about themselves instead of ashamed.

Based on the gay conservatives I know, I suspect Henderson’s answer would be something like: I think the GOP is overall much better for the nation, and while I disagree with them on this one issue, it would be selfish of me to put my own private interests ahead of the good of the nation.

Money? Or as wscott points out, it could be they differ on one issue. I wonder how he feels now that he’s on the receiving end of christian hate. Will he take the lesson to heart like that guy who went to a Hawaiian football game and had to listen to Buddhist prayers? Or will he continue on his crusade for christian privilige?

Why would a gay man ever work with an organization like this?

Denial is the hypothesis I favor. He doesn’t accept that he’s gay. He thinks his urges are the result of outside forces trying to turn him gay because that’s a dominant view among homophobes: Every man has gay urges and if we don’t buckle down as a society and stop the deviants from tempting us, every man will turn fabulously gay.

It’s ironic that homophobia essentially spreads the idea that there are no strong heterosexuals who just naturally prefer the opposite sex. Thus, allegedly, if we let teh gheys do their thing undisturbed, no man will ever be interested in reproductive sex with a woman because there are no true heterosexuals.

I’m working for the shadowy gay agenda of marriage equality, and I’m quite comfortable on the borderline between hetero and asexual. I’m not even remotely tempted by the prospect of gay sex, but if that floats your boat, you can enjoy it with someone else who enjoys it, and I’ll be happy for you. Doesn’t affect me.

bruceh writes:

Does Virginia have any equal protection labor laws for LGBT people? My guess is no, but it would be very funny to see the guy sue the ACLJ and win.

Even if they did that law would most likely contain exceptions for religious entities whose formal dogma demands their members discriminate against certain protected groups, like conservative Christian organizations do against females, GLBTs, and the latter’s children.

Denial is the hypothesis I favor. He doesn’t accept that he’s gay.

That may have initially been the case, but if you read the Facebook messages he allegedly wrote under the pseudonym Kyle Johnson, you will see that he had already accepted that he was gay before being outed.

@ Bronze Dog: I’ve known too many openly-gay conservatives to dismiss him as a self-hating closet case. Just because someone is gay doesn’t automatically make them a liberal on foreign policy, economic policy, etc; and if those issues are more important to you, then it’s not an entirely irrational decision.

I also know a fair number of gays who would be republicans if the party wasn’t so homophobic. When the GOP is finally forced by sheer demographics to drop their anti-gay agenda, it’ll be interesting to see how many gays return to the fold or if they remain a largely domocratic demographic.

You’re dead right tho about how conservatives seem to think Teh Gay is this irresistable force. Makes you wonder.

even->ever

Oh, another one of these. Blah, blah, same old sto…WAIT A MINUTE! Nobody thinks it’s odd that 2 guys in their late teens/early twenties apparently need a married middle-aged guy with 8 kids to buy their pot for them? They don’t know anyone their own age who smokes it (and thus knows where to get it) when likely about 1 in 4 15-25 year olds do*?

* – Figures pulled out of my ass, but I’d be surprised if it was all that much lower.

asq…daddy issues? Attraction to power? Using him for monetary gain…plenty of gay for pay kids out there!

“@ W. Scott:

“I’ve known too many openly-gay conservatives to dismiss him as a self-hating closet case.”

No gay (or as pointed out @ bmiller, bi-sexual) could be in such a position as Henderson was at ACLJ and NOT be self-hating, by definition.

Also, he was anything but OPEN about his sexual preference.

I meant to add that when I first saw the header I thought to myself:

“Wow, some lawyer that works there actually admitted that the organization was nothing but a bunch of lying, opportunistic fuckbag liyars who will do anything to make a buck and consider fucking the gays to be a bonus? Cool!”.

ashleybell writes:

Fuck You GOProud and Concerned Women for America, let’s hope there’s a hell for you to rot in!

That’s nearly every bit as repugnant and yes, evil, as those from the religious right who wish Hell on their political and theological opponents. If you don’t understand why then I suggest spending some time considering the harm they’ve done and could possibly do relative to the implications of that which you wish on them. And that’s using mere justice as a standard, where the best of humanity promotes grace instead.

Goddamit! is there something wrong w. the label “bisexual”? Does every man who ever made it with another guy have to be gay? Especially if he has a wife and kids? I expect this from the mainstream media, but you people should know better.