Remember a few weeks ago when I made fun of Pastor Ken Hutcherson for trying to “reclaim” the rainbow? Now he wants to reclaim the word “gay,” claiming that he is the gayest person he knows. I always had my suspicions, but it’s not polite to judge:
Dr. Ken Hutcherson, the pastor of Antioch Baptist Church in Redmond, Wash., posted an announcement earlier this week that many close to him – including his wife – have known for years. Hutcherson revealed that he is the “gayest man I know.”
“Coming out of the closet is a difficult decision to make, especially when close, personal relationships are at stake,” Hutcherson wrote in his column, Hutch Speaks Out, that was published on WorldNetDaily.
Bwahaha, this is going to backfire on him.
“Will my family abandon me? Will my friends still look at me the same? Will this announcement be worth the risk? These are indeed valid concerns that can make a person live like a double agent for years. And even though this decision is acutely personal, it does help to stand alongside someone else who is ready to announce the very same thing,” he continued.
The announcement of the burly NFL-linebacker-turned-evangelical-minister-and-author sent some initial shockwaves through the Christian community. He and James Hansen, one of his ministry leaders who is married with three children, are challenging others, especially evangelicals, to come forward and also admit that they are gay.
Haha, okay, Peter LaBarbera, you and Bam Bam do it next.
But the thing is Hutcherson is not a homosexual, nor does the happily married man have a same-sex attraction of any kind. He is, however, on a mission to take back words, phrases and symbols he believes groups, such as homosexual activists and other liberal organizations, have “hijacked” from the American lexicon.
Okay, next I would like Ken to publicly take back loving Madonna and the freedom for two dudes to make out in public. Because we gays have just cold hijacked those things. Go ahead, Ken.
“Seriously, I am the gayest guy I know,” Hutcherson reiterated in an interview with The Christian Post.
God, you don’t have to broadcast it.
“My frustration is that some groups have taken words and symbols away from the Church and from society in general. When I say I’m ‘gay,’ what I mean is that I am happy, that I am joyful and that I love people. That is precisely what a Christian ought to be so in my opinion we just need to be as gay as we can.”
It’s great to be joyful and love people. Tony Perkins, Ken Hutcherson is asking you to be as gay as you can. Do you have what it takes?
“Dan Savage (a pro-gay activist) says he is gay. He’s not gay, not anywhere close. Yeah, he may be a homosexual but he certainly doesn’t appear to be happy or joyful when he stands up in front of a classroom and uses profane language. Nope, nothing gay about that.”
To be serious for just a moment: why do wingnuts think Dan Savage is unhappy? He has a great husband, a great kid and a great life. The fact that he makes fun of wingnuts doesn’t mean he’s unhappy. It means he’s quick on his feet and knows how to laugh at people, like Ken, who would seek to destroy his family unit.
Anyway, wingnuts, you have your marching orders from Hutch. Come out of the closet and be super-gay, like he is! Here is Ken’s full column, if you want to subject yourself to that.
The racist homophobic pastor (redundant, I know) is back with a new screed. Joy.
What a moron. The word “gay” as a slang term for homosexual, has been in use for over 70 years.
There’s a scene in the 1938 comedy “Bringing Up Baby”, in which Cary Grant’s character is caught wearing a woman’s dressing gown. When asked why, he sarcastically replies, “Because I WENT GAY all of a sudden!”
I can be gay AND gay.
Does he really have to flaunt it in public and shove it in our faces? How disgusting!
He loves people! That explains all the.. “love”.
Seriously, these people use words to mean the literal opposite of what they actually mean all the time (“protect” something else by saying other people can’t have it, go ahead).
They’ve stolen words like “morals”, which DO NOT apply to them at all. They use “religious freedom” to mean that only their own religious beliefs are acceptable.
And then this?
Aww the poor tackling dummy.
Whenever this guy was on Focus on the Family & later on James Dobson’s Family Talk he has insisted that he is dying of cancer. Is that just another ploy like his ‘I am gay’ foolishness? Because all he lives for is attention from anybody anywhere. What a pathetic jerk! He ought to meet Charles B. & become really good friends.
i remember when gay was a word for happy and fairy or freak was for homo, even fruti tutti
ps… im also gay (very happy) and straight and the rainbow belongs to God
Do you also miss being able to beat us to death in the streets deb?
The LGBT community owns the rainbow now Deb and we ain’t giving it back – ha ha!
deb, ma’am-
What do you think you’re achieving by posting your bright, socially retarded passive aggressive one sentence beliefs on a pro LGBT site, the great majority of posters and commentators having had suffered due to exactly that attitude of yours?
I don’t believe it just popped into your head and you found a site to post it, a celebration of who you are, but just in case
OK, you’re happy and straight and once LGBT people were known as fairy and freak.
How about dyke or poof? Lesbo or queer?
I’ll take any nickname you’ve used (hopefully without thinking or to try and make yourself more popular amongst certain classes of society) and add another half dozen said to me and people I care about.
Have you ever been dragged to the ground and viciously kicked for being who you are? A gay friend of mine was injured beyond full repair just because he was leaving the gay village one night and was wearing make up. Apparently, they were doing it because he might try and pervert kids into being poofs.
Or threatened with rape by a group of young men to straighten you out? This happened to me and my ex girlfriend and words they used are not suitable for this assembly.
I’m going to sign now because I’m so angry I can taste it, all I can hope for is that you are immature and meeting real LGBT people and not just the parodies your church has told you about will open your eyes to the fact we are as human and deserve the same rights you do, and your Bible is just another book of ancient stories created to help men make sense of the world.
Do explain how something can belong to a mere ego projection of a megalomaniacal collective of overgrown, depraved children, deb. Language changes. Just as use of racial slurs aren’t acceptable anymore, neither is calling someone a fairy or freak just because he or she happens to be gay.
How ingenious! Ken has found a way to say the words that he has longed to say all of his life, that he’s “coming out of the closet” while framing them as metaphor. It would be funny were it not so TRAGIC.
When people call me “fag” or “queer”, Deb, I smile sweetly, say “thank you!”, and then walk away OR I give them a smile, an “around the world and back snap” (a la “In Living Color” TV show) and retort, “I sure am, honey!”
Sorta knocks the wind out of their sails when I take their insult as a compliment…
Deb dear–obviously you. Don’t know much about language or it’s history, or you wouldn’t be trying to appear witty by I imitating a religious, idiotic bigot like ken
But let’s leave fact out of it. I can remember when being a bigot was a cause for embarassment, not lame punched ex, and being flat out ignorant, if not stupid, was a cause for shame, not pride.
The world has changed a good deal since I was a boy, some of it for the better. But there’s always, unfortunately, a whole lot of ugly being flung by a whole big lot of stupid.
But it’s like playing moral whack-a-mole. You no sooner slap down one kind of bigoted stupidity, like racism or sexism or kill-the-Jews-caus-they-killed-Christ, then another kind just pops up.
One would really think that you have something better to do with your time than go out of your way to be insulting. Maybe some yard work? How about feeding and educating some starvinqg children? Maybe your marriage needs some work, or you drink too much, or sumpin’.
Maybe it’s just me, but personally, I’m just amazed at the sheer number of people who have nothing better to do with their lives then show up where they’re not really wanted, put on a display of political toilet humor, and think that smarminess is just as good as wit.
And who, in the end, think they ought to be praised or congratulatied for no perceivable rational cause, other than that they have again attacked a group of people whom they don’t know, know nothing about, and who have done them and intended them no harm.
Tres triste
Damn iPad. That should have read LAME PUNCH LINES.
About his doubt over Dan Savages happiness, this reminded me of that little E! channel’s “behind the story” they did of Growing Pains, when Alan Thicke was talking about Kirk Cameron’s conversion, “He didn’t seem very happy to me.”
@ Deb, honey, do we need to get you back in junior high science class to teach you about light refraction?
I have also been accused of being “unhappy” by fundies who know nothing about my life. There are times I have been ecstatically happy in life. And other times less so. Neither my joy nor sorrow has ever had anything to do with my sexual orientation.
If fundies are always happy, no matter the circumstances, there is something profoundly wrong with them. I would also hate to live in a world where there was nothing but predictable joy, because this would degrade the meaning of happiness.
Like most issues, all fundies offer are shallow platitudes or dishonest dialogue. Their insight into our happiness has as much validity as judging our moods by purchasing a mood ring.
The thing is, Mr. Besen, fundies aren’t happy. This is why they try to make not only people like us, but everyone else around them as miserable as they are. That is why they try to make everyone feel the same shame and guilt in living that they feel. That is why they try to make everyone fear the same things they do. Their greed drives them to such misery. As the old saying goes, misery loves company.
Oh, Deb, typical Christian thug–thinking your chosen religious lifestyle means you get to claim whatever you want for yourself by stomping your hooves and declaring it so. Sorry, life doesn’t work that way.
I feel pretty :) I feel Pretty :) I feel pretty (despite being a 210 lb guy with a face beat up by rugby and build and look that friends say make me look like a russian mafia enforcer with no fashion sense) and happy and GAAAAYYYY !!! :)
Unlike Deb…whose words show she is mean spirited…nasty, cruel, and that her parents sadly never taught her kindness or class.
No Deb…you are not gay. Not gay at all.
Neither is this “rev” who truly has no right to the title.
And let’s also reclaim the word ‘awesome’ from extreme overuse and misuse. Lots-o-luck.
ps..deb it’s *tutti* fruiti. You must have had a 1.0 GPA.