[lbo-talk] Christian right leader takes vacation with rent boy

Dwayne Monroe dwayne.monroe at gmail.com
Tue May 4 13:30:43 PDT 2010


Doug posted:

I would argue that it's not hypocrisy. The recurrence of this sort of thing makes an interesting point about the source of homophobia in anxiety about one's own homosexual desire. Or, a secret life is the condition of possibility of Christian right politics - at least when one makes a career out of it, and then some.

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This, more or less, is Max Blumenthal's argument in his book, _Republican Gommorah_:

Amazon --

<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1568583982/leftbusinessobseA/>

In brief, Blumenthal describes the sweaty, shoutastic politics, mental gyrations and multiple underpants scandals of the rightiest of right wingers as a logical consequence of unresolved personal crises (for example, the crisis of experiencing same-sex desires in a fundamentalist world which has zero sympathy for such desires).

No doubt, you recall your interview with Mr. Blumenthal:

<http://shout.lbo-talk.org/lbo/RadioArchive/2009/09_09_10.mp3>

Recommended to all (microphone test one two one two...is this thing on?).

.d.



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