2.14.2009

This Is What Happens When Preachers Promote Self-Loathing

The son of televangelist (multi-millionaire) TD Jakes is a homo. And, thanks to his father's upbringing, he's been charged with indecent exposure.
The son of T.D. Jakes — the Dallas megachurch pastor who’s called homosexuality a “brokenness” and declared that he would never hire a sexually active gay person — was arrested in a gay sex sting in Kiest Park in January, according to Dallas police reports.

Jermaine Donnell Jakes, 29, faces a charge of indecent exposure after allegedly exposing himself in front of two undercover vice detectives shortly after 10 p.m. on Jan. 3. Senior Cpl. Janice Crowther, a DPD spokeswoman, confirmed Thursday, Feb. 12 that the detectives were both male.
And TD Jakes' response? Support...but not really:

“It is in moments like these that I am so grateful that we do not preach that we are the solution, but we look to Christ for resolution,” Jakes, pastor of Dallas’ megachurch The Potter’s House, said in a written statement provided to The Dallas Morning News late Friday night.

“So then, as a very human family with real issues, like many other people, we will draw from the same well of grace to which we have led others to drink and be refreshed,” the statement said.

How about, "I love my gay son?" How about, "He did this because I never recognized his sexuality in a grown-up way, but instead preached against homosexuality based on ancient texts and bullshit superstitions?" How about, "I forced my son to seek sexual pleasures in public parks by denying modern science and my son's own best interests so I could be a sanctimonious, money-grubbing twat?"

FUCK YOU ASSHOLE!!! This guy has written many books on how to be "a man" and how to be "a real dad," all the while condemning the gays. Let's see what his next book is about now that he has to look biology, and his own hypocrisy, in the face.

1 comment:

  1. Egocentrism is an ugly, destructive trait in a parent. I'm not surprised by his slick equivocation in the matter of his son, but still disgusted by it.

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