Previously, Rev. Latham had visited the Habanna Inn, which describes itself on its website as, "the Southwest's Largest Gay Resort,"where he was booked, documented by a prior speeding ticket. He claims he was "pastoring" in the area.
The poor man is hoisted by his own petard.
Matt Foreman, executive director of the Gay and Lesbian Task Force, reacted with backhanded compassion:
Rev. Latham supported a directive urging its churches to befriend gays and lesbians and try to convince them that they can become heterosexual "if they accept Jesus Christ as their savior and reject their 'sinful, destructive lifestyle.'"
These kinds of situations involving anti-gay political and religious leaders being caught, literally, with their pants down are hardly uncommon. My instinctual reaction has always been one of smug satisfaction -- "serves the damn hypocrite right."
Maybe I'm getting old, or maybe it's lingering good will from being with my family in Wyoming over the holidays, or maybe it's thinking about Brokeback Mountain too much, but today I only feel sadness for Rev. Latham and his family. Homophobia -- directed at others and at one's own very being -- is the real perpetrator here.
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