Like most people, I’m an amateur psychologist. I’ve been following this closeted gay preacher’s fall from grace. It really is a fascinating story. He’s not the first, and he won’t be the last.
I feel sorry for his kids. They must be so totally screwed up. But I don’t feel sorry for him because I do very much enjoy seeing hypocrites brought to task. It’s one thing to be closeted; everyone has his/her own reasons, but it’s a totally different thing to be closeted and to publicly condemn behaviour that you partake in in your own hidden lifestyle. Rule No. 1: If you are gay and in the closet, then shut up about other gay people.
Perhaps this preacher can now find love in the arms of Doogie Howser.
I’m trying to understand the mindset of someone who can live a double life. It must be very stressful. In this case, it seems like he’s relieved that the hiding is over. He owes a huge apology to gay people, though. I wonder if he will ever apologize.
I’m trying to imagine an equivalent thing that could happen to me. It’s like if somebody dropped in unexpectedly and found my house plastered with posters of Bush and Cheney. I’d have some 'splaining to do, I guess.
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As a spokesmember for our team, we would like to trade Doogie Howser back in exchange for Alec Baldwin.
JAW fan
LoL at Bush/Cheney posters! But JAW fan, we regretfully decline the return of Doogie Howser.
I personally feel sorry for the guy. Yeah, I know, he shouldn't have been all "gay is bad" then turned around and had wild gay sex, but things happen...
The important thing I think people should take away from all this is that we are all human and we all make mistakes. We (Christians in general but church leaders especially) need to be careful where we point our fingers. We may find a finger pointing back at us. (And we may like it and buy meth from it, I'm just saying)
Beware the lure of the meth-selling finger!
I forgot about the meth part. Is anything dumber than saying you bought meth out of curiosity? If I'm curious about some "product" or other, I'll read about it on the internet, but I'm not likely to phone up a hooker friend of mine to try to score some.
I don't even have any hooker friends. That's how square I am.
Beware the lure of the meth-selling finger!
I forgot about the meth part. Is anything dumber than saying you bought meth out of curiosity? If I'm curious about some "product" or other, I'll read about it on the internet, but I'm not likely to phone up a hooker friend of mine to try to score some.
I don't even have any hooker friends. That's how square I am.
Argh. I hate double posts! Stupid comments box.
alec baldwin (swoonish sigh...)
Goodness me, all these Alec Baldwin fans coming out of the closet!
(I know, I know, he's pudgy)
I wasn't saying you can't have Alec, just that you have to keep Doogie NO MATTER WHAT. Even if he comes back and says it was just the meth talking and he's straight as an arrow now, it's too late! The only thing I ask is that Michael Ware NEVER EVER come out of the closet...Oh the pain!
Don't feel bad Nan, I don't have any hooker friends either. I don't know that I have any friends I could buy "throw-away" meth from either.
OK, someone will have to explain the Doogie Howser thing to me (is this about that TV show that was on years ago?).
Re the preacher - I have no sympathy for him whatsoever and agree with Nanuk - by all means stay in the closet, but don't go round campaigning for 'family values' and against gay marriage. I like the way little bits of story keep coming out - first he just bought drugs off him, then it was a 'massage'.....
Hypocrisy is one of my pet hates (although I'm sure I'm guilty of it from time to time).
Not sure what the Baldwins have to do with this, but I'm not a fan of any of them (how many Baldwins are there??)
The guy who played Doogie Howser on that show many, many years ago came out of the closet over the weekend. I had no idea! Unlike that other guy, the one from Grey's Anatomy, who clearly had gay stamped across his forehead.
Did you know you could buy a gaydar from Sharper Image? (That's an "Office" joke for any fans of that show.)
OK - I remember that show - gee, another gay actor - shock horror!!!!
I hate to break it to you, but that gaydar thing is not just an Office joke...it exists in real life! You keep it activated in your pocket, and if you pass someone who also has one activated in their pocket, it will start vibrating or beep or something...
Personally, I think it is stupid! Normally, I do not need a beeper to tell me whose gay or not, I kind of just know. Of course, being in a gay bar at the time helps tip me off.
JAW fan
aside from the delights (?!) of beeping, vibrating pockets (which reminds me of val kilmer's little crotch-hidden gun in KISS KISS BANG BANG: great scene), I need to wade in with my baldwin thought of the day: there may be a whack of baldwin's, but alex is the best (pudgy tho he be).
also: I was a little vague on the whole doogie thing as well...
In response to Miss Mushroom,...in my mind, there is only one Baldwin as far as I am concerned...and that is the original Baldwin. Delicious Alec!...In fact, I think he deserves his own Harveyporn type-of-novel. Your thoughts?
JAW fan
let 'er rip, hilda
(sorry for the apparent blog digression, ms nanuk: blame this doogie dude (arf! arf!) whomever he be)
I loved Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, incidentally. Robert Downey rules!
I'm not into any Baldwins, but if I had to pick one, it would be Alec. Really, who else is there? You must see The Departed. Alec Baldwin plays the Alec Baldwin character.
being a hick, I only saw KISS KISS this weekend so good yes, young robert d jr still as wonderful as ever
and did I mention the little gun in the pants thing...?
one day (about a year from now) I will finally see THE DEPARTED and rave to all who will listen how much I liked it
I'll be with you JAW fan. I'm always the last to see movies. I HATE going to the theater!!!
Anyway, there's Alec, Stephen (who looks like a penis with a nose-google him and see if I'm right), another fatter one, and a skinny one that was in a movie about firefighters one time.
And for the Downy Jr fans, try The Singing Detective. It was great, but I'm partial to movies with him and Adrian Brody...
Adrian Brody gets a thumbs up from me. I don't care about his acting, I just love his unusual face.
ditto on the brody
but I LOVE movies in theatres just never seem to get there
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