More Proof that “Anti-Gay” Activists are Repressing Themselves
September 20, 2006: I’ve often said that people who get unduly worked up about homosexuality and who devote themselves to preventing our community from having basic human rights are probably having some kind of psychological crisis.
More proof of this phenomenon has emerged as the former Governor of New Jersey, Jim McGreevey, says this in a recent interview:
Once publicly opposed to gay marriage, former New Jersey Gov. James E. McGreevey now says he spoke out against the idea as a way to keep his homosexuality hidden.
“I did not want to be identified as being gay, and it was the safe place to be,” McGreevey said Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press. “I wanted to embrace the antagonist. I wanted to be against it. That’s the absurdity.”
Whether they are unconciously acting out against their own repressed same-sex feelings, or purposefully overcompensating to hide the truth of their double lives, most people who harbor strong anti-gay feelings have real issues with thier own sexuality. Healthy people are content to live their own lives and don’t feel the need to control or harm others.
I’m glad McGreevey has emerged from his own personal darkness into the light of truth and mental health. He shows that there’s hope for the homophobes.