09-05-2007, 03:59 PM
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| Banned Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Los Angeles Gender:  Posts: 11,893 Country:  Points: 39,710, Level: 100 | Level up: 0%, 0 Points needed | | Quote:
Originally Posted by tristanrobin Perhaps that's true.
I can imagine that leading a repessed life in which he had to hide who he was to every family member and friend; to realize that he was leading a hypocritical life by harming gay people while being gay himself; to lead an unfulfilled, unrewarding and incomplete life; to know that all the people who held his professional life in their hands would crush him if they knew who he really was, all could, indeed, lead to depression. | Nobody forced him to lead a "repressed life".
But would you have been as sympathetic if he had chosen to repress pedophilic or zoophilic feelings instead of expressing them?
And how can you be so sanctimonious as to claim he led "an unfulfilled, unrewarding and incomplete life"??
The guy came from a poor background and has been a US Senator for 30 years!
Not everyone sees their whole being as determined by their sexuality, whether that sexuality is straight or defective.
Clearly he saw homosexuality as a demon he had to fight, as others see alcoholism or obesity. |