‘Gay Love Gov’ rejected for ordination: The Church of England Newspaper, April 29, 2011. p 7. April 28, 2011
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First published in The Church of England Newspaper.
Christmas has come early for New York’s tabloids as former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey has returned to the public eye after the Diocese of Newark declined to ordain the “Gay Love Gov” to the priesthood.
In 2004 McGreevey resigned after a newspaper reported the twice married governor was having homosexual trysts with an aide. In a nationally televised address the Democrat politician announced he was a “gay American,” and resigned amidst accusations of graft and corruption and was accused of having “led a governorship of personal sleaze” by University of Virginia political analyst Larry Sabato.
The governor’s bid for public rehabilitation was not helped by television commercials broadcast by the state tourist board that featured McGreevey holding his wife and daughter while standing on the beach exclaiming, “COME OUT–and see what’s new in New Jersey.”
The McGreevey sage took an unexpected twist in 2007 when the New York Post reported the “Gay Love Gov” had left the Roman Catholic Church and enrolled at New York’s General Theological Seminary to train for the Episcopal ministry. In 2010 the former governor received a theological degree and began work at Integrity House, a mental-health and drug-addiction treatment center in Newark.
On April 25 the Post reported the Diocese of Newark had turned down the governor’s request for ordination. It quoted an unnamed source in the diocese as saying McGreevey was turned away for multiple reasons. “It was not being gay but for being a jackass — [McGreevey] didn’t come out of the whole divorce looking good.”
McGreevey “was sort of looking for every angle to make a complete redo of his professional life,” another unnamed source told the tabloid. “He ran to the church for some kind of cover, which isn’t fully appropriate. Even if he’s a good guy, he should wait five to 10 years to get over his issues.”
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He is a jaskass!The bible was very clear on this topic of this so called gay.Isaiah 3 vs 9 says”you have declared sodomy as your sin,you hide it not”.The TEC should welcome his as a priest.There are lots of sodomites like him.But as Jesus chirst himself once cautioned”beware of flase priest”.