America's first gay governor to become a priest
He created a political sensation in United States three years ago when he of New Jersey and revealed at a press conference that he is a "gay American". Now Jim McGreevey is planning to be .
Governor McGreevey will begin a three-year Master of Divinity programme at General Theological Seminary in New York in the autumn. This is also the alma mater of Gene Robinson, the gay bishop at the centre of the Anglican Communion's ongoing battle over sexuality, and was the venue for my recently televised interview with Bishop Robinson.
Governor McGreevey, a life-long Catholic of Irish descent, lives in New Jersey with his partner, the Australian-American business executive Mark O'Donnell, an is a recent convert to Anglicanism. Is this a future Anglican bishop in the making?
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I've met Jim McGreevey and he's a very fine policitician and a great loss to state politics here in New Jersey. His personal life became extremely complicated when his extra-marital affair became public. Since then, he has worked hard to rebuild his life. His autobiography is excellent and I recommend it to anyone wishing to lean more about his life. He is also a deeply spiritual man and I am not surprised that he is to begin a theology masters. If he does eventually join the priesthood, and that can't be for at least another three or four years, he will be a great pastor. I agree with Will that McGreevey could well end up as a bishop. He is such an experienced public leader, he's bound to be a condidate in the next ten years. Godspeed to him.
Enter PB, stage right.
THe more I read about this man McGreevey the more impressed I am by him. He's had a tough experience lately and has risen through it all to new heights in my estimation. Good on him for not allowing the homophobes and tabloids to bring him down.
a guy that that ould make me go back to church ... someone who's in the real world and not trapped im a pulpit confused by life
Hillbillery,
I think we are all pritty confused mate. I doubt this guy has it all figured out either.
What's most amazing is that someone - anyone - cares........
SG
Why shoudlnt we care Stpehen g?
New Jersey has been cursed with one screwball Governor after another. Does it take a special kind of accident prone individual to run for the State House in Trenton? McGreevy for those who don't know about him admitted to having a homosexual affair with one of his aides and resigned as Governor a few years ago. He's just come out with a book about it and so has his wife. He claims she knew he was gay all along, she claims she didn't. Now he has converted from Catholicism to Episcopalian and wants to become a minister having just entered the seminary. Good luck all you Anglicans, as if you didn't have enough problems already. His replacement the multimillionaire Governor Corzine was nearly killed in a car crash several weeks ago and his injuries were made much worse due to the fact that he broke the law and was not wearing a seat belt or shoulder harness. He got a ticket for that and has reportedly paid it, apologizing to the people of New Jersey for setting a bad example. McGreevey's predecessor was the incompetent lying Christie (witless) Whitman. I'm still waiting for her to keep her promise that my real estate taxes and car insurance rates would go down if she got elected but I'm not holding my breath anymore. Anyway, we got rid of her when President Bush was elected and appointed her head of the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency) in Washington. She was responsible for telling all of the people who worked on the cleanup after the World Trade Center was destroyed that it was safe for them and not to worry about the air quality. Sure Christie, a billion pounds of asbestos, millions of pounds of mercury from fluorescent light tubes, millions of pounds of pulverized lead from glass in computer screens and it was safe. All of those people who worked down there and got very sick were just a coincidence. She also presided over the relaxation of air and water quality standards all over America. A lot of nonsense comes out disproportionately from the small state of New Jersey, a distinction it could well do without. What we need is our very own Governator. I wonder what Gerhard Schroeder is doing these days.
Thats a pretty unpleasnt comment from Mark. Jim McGreevey is not to blame for being gay, nor is he a screwball because he finally came out as gay. Mark you're not a very sympathetic person, I can tell. This guy deserves credit for being true to himself.
sam.scott, You really missed the point. McGreevey didn't resign because he is gay, he resigned and was condemned because he had an affair with a subordinate and as an elected official that is not acceptable at least in the US. He also humiliated himself by having an illicit affair outside of marriage. All this may be so common in some places as to make people jaded and indifferent to it but in New Jersey at least, we still find something about it offensive.
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