The most surreal thing was the 30 seconds of sustained applause after McGreevy's speech, like he'd just won the Nobel Peace prize or something. New diaspora indeed Jeff C. The Governor sounded in his speech like he was St. Thomas More, like he was somehow an innocent victim in all of this. I also found it perplexing that his "identity" is connected with where he puts his organ.
Original here, slightly amended follows:
N.J. Gov. McReely Resigns
Thursday, August 12, 2004; 5:07 PM
Good afternoon.
Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.
By virtue of my traditions, and my community, I worked hard to ensure that I was accepted as part of the traditional family of America. I married one wife and had a lovely daughter. She then went to British Columbia and I remarried, again to one wife.
Yet, from my early days in school, until the present day, I acknowledged some feelings of unrest. But because of my resolve, and also thinking that I was doing the right thing, I forced what I thought was an acceptable reality onto myself, a reality which is layered and layered with all the, quote, good things, and all the, quote, right things of typical adolescent and adult behavior.
Yet, at my most reflective level there were points in my life when I began to question what an acceptable reality really meant for me. Were there sexual realities from which I was running?
And so my truth is that I am an American with other-sex attraction and a strong inclination towards non-monogamy. I recently came to accept my true identity: that I'm attracted to any number of women at any given time. I don't believe God tortures us by forcing us to be faithful to just one woman, especially when you see scantily clad women on TV all the time.
I am here today because, shamefully, I engaged in adult consensual affair with other women, which violates my bonds of matrimony. It was wrong. It was foolish. It was inexcusable.
I take full responsibility and expect to be applauded vociferously at the end of this speech.
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