Unfortunately, I’m experiencing this frustration in the field of Human Services and Vermont State Government. It’s a dangerous combination, moral superiority and Ignorance, as well as Human Services and Vermont State Government.

Her actions after the disappearance were more than questionable and in many ways she appeared to be heartless and callous, but without facts to prove that she was guilty, it would have been a travesty of justice to have convicted her.

@Meettheskeptics Good point. I have no sweet tooth. If fact, I generally dislike chocolate and have little interest in sugar. It isn’t willpower, it’s lack of interest.

They hate themselves, they know that they are themselves gay, they believe that being gay is wrong, and then because they believe that being gay is wrong they live a closeted lifestyle of denial, which in and of itself creates all kinds of conflicts and perversions, which they then attribute to all homosexuals.

So, for example, some gay man who is a fundamentalist Christian may marry a woman, try to be a good father, try not to “be gay”, and in the process they get depressed, have thoughts of suicide, may make attempts at molesting boys since they are easy targets or at least have thoughts about it, etc. all of which is brought about not from “being gay”, but from being closeted.

And from their experience they believe that this is what being gay is like, and its bad, so they come out against it, and when you hear them saying all these bad things about the character of gay people, they are really talking about themselves and projected themselves onto all gay people.

And not only that, but taking the “idle hands are the Devil’s workshop” mentality they occupy their time with anti-gay activism as a means of trying to “self-medicate” their own gay denial. In other words, denying their own homosexuality is so painful that they anti-gay activism is a useful distraction that they use to try and keep themselves away from homosexuality. Maybe they feel that their anti-gay activities will either cure themselves or at least prevent them from acting on their desires by occupying their time and reminding themselves how bad those desires are.

It is quite sad really. It is also something the gay community will hopefully get better at dealing with, knowing that, in fact, some of the strongest enemies of gay rights are themselves closeted gay people. It’s a difficult situation. Imagine if the biggest opponents of the Civil Rights movement were blacks. There is no such thing as a closeted black though, so that’s why that didn’t happen.

I marvel at how others can so easily avoid sweets, but that’s because I have an incredibly annoying sweet tooth that causes me to crave unhealthy stuff. It could just be that many other people aren’t so tempted & that’s why it’s so easy for them to take a pass on dessert. Still, I instinctively see it as if they have stronger willpower than me. The only difference is that I can rationally understand that not everyone feels the same temptations I feel. These preachers don’t seem to make that connection.