http://www.kare11.com/news/national/national_article.aspx?storyid=142236
Also in colorado, also a large church. Talk about an epidemic!
“I have struggled with homosexuality since I was a 5-year-old boy. … I can’t tell you the number of nights I have cried myself to sleep, begging God to take this away.”
And after 49 years, the penny still hasn’t dropped.
Aren’t these the same people who are always saying “you’re not born gay”? Yeah. Makes you wonder what else they’re in denial about…drinking comes to mind, from what I’ve encountered in this area. (In my hometown, the brick wall that blocked the ABC store’s parking lot from the street was known as the “Baptist Wall.”)
“In Colorado” ain’t got nuthin’ to do with it! These nutcases could just as easily have flocked (no pun intended) to southern California or Florida or some other sunny clime. Phoenix comes to mind – yeah, why’nt they all go to Phoenix? And take Tancredo and Musgrave with 'em!
But it’s not because they’re in Colorado. Honest! There’s a buncha’ us atheists and gays and lesbians and just plain dangerous liberals here, too! Hell, we elected a Democrat governor – what more d’ya want!? Get off our case, OK!?
Then why do you keep the colorado springs evangelical contingent huh huh? 
You got your work cut out for ya kiddo.
I feel for his family and him. It must be so very difficult to live a lie for years and years because you are so ashamed of what you are.
What gets me about this is a little hard to explain.
This guy, and the other Colorado preacher a while ago, are obviously capable men, men who can lead, men who can change the world (if only in a small way).
Why would a person like that devote all his efforts to building a world in which he himself isn’t welcome? Why not work on building a world in which he can be comfortable (in this case, one in which homosexuality is accepted)?
What kind of perverseness, what kind of self-hatred, what kind of screwed-up thinking leads these guys to devote their efforts to marginalizing themselves?
Well, hey, now. He never said he was born gay.
He apparently chose to become gay when he was five years old.
That’s profound. And a damn good question. Of course society forces “Different” people to go underground and that isn’t right.
Sorry, we’re all stocked up on religious nutcases here. How about Albuquerque?
Here’s what I wrote about the subect on another site:
Personally, I know of three or four men of the cloth that have been in similar if not identical conflicts. That’s a pretty large population considering I haven’t been in a church in 18 years.
Because he hates the feelings that he has, and figures, maybe, if he loves God and serves God enough, if he’s good enough, if he pleases God enough, if he tries hard enough, maybe God will forgive him and take these feelings away, and he’ll finally be normal and not evil anymore. It’s the same reason gay teenagers have such higher rates of suicide than straight teenagers.
It can be hard, if you’re gay, to accept that about yourself and realize that being gay doesn’t make you evil. He was, and probably still is, in a menta place where he believes he deserves to be marginalized and deserves to be hated…that he’s a disgusting, evil person, who will undoubtedly rot in hell.