Was Omar Mateen Gay? Former Classmate & Others Say He Was
That much rage could only come from a man who lived feeling hideous shame for his own true God-given nature.
Both radical/strict Islam and American Evangelical Christianity use a twisted dark demented form of their own scripture to justify homophobia, gay-hate, and anti-gay word, deeds.
Bottom line, these people feel ashamed of their own homosexual desires or fantasies. They are insecure about their sexuality and live afraid, on some level, of homosexuals. Here are some examples:
**The macho man who calls gay men "fags", trying to forget his own adolescent experimentation.
**The "Christian" mom who catches her young son "sword fighting" with a playmate, shames him, beats him, puts the fear of God (her twisted version) in him because she is so afraid that his normal behavior means he is gay.
**The anti-gay "Christian" preacher who has a secret life with male prostitutes.
**The girl or woman who feels guilty getting turned when looking at a bikini ad. Her guilt becomes fear that there is something wrong or bad about her. She must "pray away the gay." Getting turned on by the female form doesn't make you a lesbian--maybe slightly bisexual.
What we need to be teaching children, at the appropriate age, is that sexual orientation is sliding scale and we all are born somewhere on the spectrum that goes from Heterosexual.... to Homosexual with Bisexual and Asexual in the middle. Bisexuals can live perfectly normal happy lives with either sex. Also there are transitional times in our lives when a homosexual desire or thought may manifest in an otherwise heterosexual brain. Pre-puberty for example.
However, for a homosexual trying to live as a heterosexual, life is hell, filled with self-loathing that often manifests as rage. The Orlando gunman was know as a woman hater, abusive husband, boyfriend. He trolled gay clubs in secret. He had a horrible self-image and profound feelings of inferiority. He tried to become a cop, a corrections officer, and was kicked out. He grew up in a culture that puts a high value on male success and achievement and all he could amount to was a security guard. He was loser. His rage needed a name, a reason, an insane twisted belief system to justify itself, because to admit he hated himself for being a homosexual loser who never amounted to anything was unthinkable--it was easier to take his fathers religion to some extreme hateful place and turn his rage on those like him.
Isis never heard of this guy before last week. No one had ever heard of him. He was unremarkable, below average person, living in a self-made hell that came to boil. He had to do something to distinguish himself, be noticed, be someone who gets on TV. And, he had to prove he was not gay to himself and the world.
Although he succeeded at getting people to notice him, he failed at proving he was not gay.
That much rage could only come from a man who lived feeling hideous shame for his own true God-given nature.
Both radical/strict Islam and American Evangelical Christianity use a twisted dark demented form of their own scripture to justify homophobia, gay-hate, and anti-gay word, deeds.
Bottom line, these people feel ashamed of their own homosexual desires or fantasies. They are insecure about their sexuality and live afraid, on some level, of homosexuals. Here are some examples:
**The macho man who calls gay men "fags", trying to forget his own adolescent experimentation.
**The "Christian" mom who catches her young son "sword fighting" with a playmate, shames him, beats him, puts the fear of God (her twisted version) in him because she is so afraid that his normal behavior means he is gay.
**The anti-gay "Christian" preacher who has a secret life with male prostitutes.
**The girl or woman who feels guilty getting turned when looking at a bikini ad. Her guilt becomes fear that there is something wrong or bad about her. She must "pray away the gay." Getting turned on by the female form doesn't make you a lesbian--maybe slightly bisexual.
What we need to be teaching children, at the appropriate age, is that sexual orientation is sliding scale and we all are born somewhere on the spectrum that goes from Heterosexual.... to Homosexual with Bisexual and Asexual in the middle. Bisexuals can live perfectly normal happy lives with either sex. Also there are transitional times in our lives when a homosexual desire or thought may manifest in an otherwise heterosexual brain. Pre-puberty for example.
However, for a homosexual trying to live as a heterosexual, life is hell, filled with self-loathing that often manifests as rage. The Orlando gunman was know as a woman hater, abusive husband, boyfriend. He trolled gay clubs in secret. He had a horrible self-image and profound feelings of inferiority. He tried to become a cop, a corrections officer, and was kicked out. He grew up in a culture that puts a high value on male success and achievement and all he could amount to was a security guard. He was loser. His rage needed a name, a reason, an insane twisted belief system to justify itself, because to admit he hated himself for being a homosexual loser who never amounted to anything was unthinkable--it was easier to take his fathers religion to some extreme hateful place and turn his rage on those like him.
Isis never heard of this guy before last week. No one had ever heard of him. He was unremarkable, below average person, living in a self-made hell that came to boil. He had to do something to distinguish himself, be noticed, be someone who gets on TV. And, he had to prove he was not gay to himself and the world.
Although he succeeded at getting people to notice him, he failed at proving he was not gay.
