From NOLA.com.
Nearly every blogger I know scooped me on the local story of Grant Storms' shenanigans in New Orleans. I'm about burnt out with tales about men (mostly) who scream loud and long about gays and others who destroy "family values", and then get caught in compromising situations. As soon as these folks start shouting, we should watch their tracks for signs of a train wreck waiting to happen. The stories are so frequent that they are hardly newsworthy.
Though he admitted having his hands in his pants, Christian fundamentalist Grant Storms denied Tuesday that he was masturbating in a Metairie park before being arrested.
Storms addressed the allegations during a news conference in Metairie, one day after hiws arrest became public.
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"I had my hands in my pants," he said. When asked by a reporter what he was doing with his hands, Storms answered, "I don't want to get into all that right now. That will come out in court."
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Storms, who once called himself a "Christian patriot," gained notoriety for his fervent opposition to Southern Decadence, a three-day gay festival held in the French Quarter during Labor Day weekend. Storms and his followers used bullhorns and picket signs to protest the festival, which he has said turned the Quarter into Sodom and Gomorrah.
Storms on Tuesday apologized to those he had maligned.
So Storms apologizes. Better than not apologizing, I suppose.
He also asked forgiveness of his wife and four children, as well he should. My heart goes out to them.
And he admitted he has a problem with pornography.
Dear Mimi,
ReplyDeleteI´ve been around for over six decades--I knew I ¨liked men¨ early on--I also knew it wasn´t ok to ¨like men¨ romantically--all that was ¨normal¨ then except I was confused as a child into young man--many times a ¨opportunity¨ presented itself--men, young and not, would come out of the woodwork, the wallpaper, the thin air looking for sex! It´s so sickly funny/odd/real that I note most of these ¨instant sex maniacs¨ would quickly retreat into their werewolflike ¨straight¨ lives as quickly as they appeared--you know, the ¨hear no, speak no, see no homo-evil¨ hetero boys! Naturally, this same tribe of shadowy lungers got a little (hysterical) when faced with sexual REAL (their very own and other peoples). I still know of a childhood neighbor/friend who was eager to have his ¨way¨ with me (but I never allowed it because I thought he would think I was ¨queer¨)...this ¨fellow¨ became a 747 pilot, married several times, and later enthusiastically restarted his friendship with me --that is, until I told him I was Gay--off he went into the wild blue younder (again) -- no more friendship because it´s hard to have real friendships when there is no basis for sharing of truth and I´ve seen enough destructive self-delusion to know, for certain, men aren´t always sexually desireous the way they ¨seem¨ to be. Mr/Rev Grant apparently is much sicker than he allows himself or anyone else to know he is. The guilt/shame marches on.
Leonardo, when the men scream and shout, they are crying out against what is inside themselves, and, obviously, the screaming and shouting don't make the truth go away.
ReplyDeleteMetairie seems to be ground zero for wing-nuts in your part of the world.
ReplyDeleteYes, indeed, Lapin. Metairie is fertile ground, so to speak. Jimmy Swaggart, Marvin Gorman...perhaps others that don't come immediately to mind.
ReplyDeleteI thought his story was that he was urinating into a bottle. Hard to do with your hands in your pants, I should think.
ReplyDeletewv = hippolve
(dangerous kind of bestiality)
Paul (A.), as Elaine said in the Seinfeld show, "He took it out."
ReplyDeleteHe might have put the bottle inside his pants. Some men wear rather loose pants. Just sayin'.
ReplyDelete"That will all come out in court."
ReplyDeleteIt better not.
When asked by a reporter what he was doing with his hands, Storms answered, "I don't want to get into all that right now. That will come out in court."
ReplyDeleteAll together now: Ewwwwwww!!!! }-X
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: SANE people *Do*Not*Care* about other consenting adults' sex lives. If people DO care (OBSESS), Q.E.D.
For some reason I associate Metairie with David Duke, hence my comment.
ReplyDeleteLook what happens when I leave my house for a few hours.
ReplyDeleteCathy, that could get messy.
Bex, I wonder if the reporter included that particular quote on purpose to give us a laugh.
I was surprised at the explicit headlines, which is why I did a screen shot to show the words scame from the newspaper.
JCF, the SANE do care about what people do in public, especially in a park where children are playing.
Lapin, David Duke was/is from Metairie, but his problem is of a different sort. I was thinking of preachers and their non-family-values type sexual activities.
ReplyDelete"And he admitted he has a problem with pornography." Talk about digging yourself in deeper! DUMB??
ReplyDeleteI know. Did anyone ask?
ReplyDeleteWell, Mimi, "consenting adults" intended to convey "w/o kids anywhere present". But if you need to clarify, then OK. [You did get I meant what Mr Storms (formerly?) obsessed about, the sex lives of Teh Gays, right? O_o]
ReplyDeleteJCF, I understand what you said about Storms' obsessions about the sex lives of of gay folks, and I agree that consenting adults can do whatever they like - in private. :-) IOW, spare me.
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