Jim McGreevey: ‘I am a Gay Amerin’ – Digal Journal

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• “I AM A GAY AMERIN.”GOV. JIM MCGREEVEYON AUGT 12, 2004, NEW JERSEY’S DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR, JIM MCGREEVEY, UNR THREAT OF A SEXUAL HARASSMENT LAWSU OM HIS FORMER MALE LOVER, ANNOUNCED AT A PRS NFERENCE… READ MORE AUG. 13, 20041 VIEWER1 CONTRIBUTOR“I AM A GAY AMERIN.” LYRICSGOOD AFTERNOON. THROUGHOUT MY LIFE, I HAVE GRAPPLED WH MY OWN INTY, WHO I AM. AS A YOUNG CHILD, I OFTEN FELT AMBIVALENT ABOUT MYSELF, FACT, NFED.BY VIRTUE OF MY TRADNS, AND MY MUNY, I WORKED HARD TO ENSURE THAT I WAS ACCEPTED AS PART OF THE TRADNAL FAY OF AMERI. I MARRIED MY FIRST WIFE, KARI, OUT OF RPECT AND LOVE. AND TOGETHER, WE HAVE A WONRFUL, EXTRAORDARY DGHTER. KARI THEN CHOSE TO RETURN TO BRISH COLUMBIA.I THEN HAD THE BLSG OF MARRYG DA, WHOSE LOVE AND JOY FOR LIFE HAS BEEN AN CREDIBLE SOURCE OF STRENGTH FOR ME. AND TOGETHER, WE HAVE THE MOST BETIFUL DGHTER.YET, OM MY EARLY DAYS SCHOOL, UNTIL THE PRENT DAY, I ACKNOWLEDGED SOME FEELGS, A CERTA SENSE THAT SEPARATED ME OM OTHERS. BUT BEE OF MY ROLVE, AND ALSO THKG THAT I WAS DOG THE RIGHT THG, I FORCED WHAT I THOUGHT WAS AN ACCEPTABLE REALY ONTO MYSELF, A REALY WHICH IS LAYERED AND LAYERED WH ALL THE, QUOTE, "GOOD THGS," AND ALL THE, QUOTE, "RIGHT THGS" OF TYPIL ADOLCENT AND ADULT BEHAVR.YET, AT MY MOST REFLECTIVE, MAYBE EVEN SPIRUAL LEVEL, THERE WERE POTS MY LIFE WHEN I BEGAN TO QUTN WHAT AN ACCEPTABLE REALY REALLY MEANT FOR ME. WERE THERE REALI OM WHICH I WAS NNG? WHICH MASTER WAS I TRYG TO SERVE?I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT GOD TORTUR ANY PERSON SIMPLY FOR S OWN SAKE. I BELIEVE THAT GOD ENABL ALL THGS TO WORK FOR THE GREATER GOOD. AND THIS, THE 47TH YEAR OF MY LIFE, IS ARGUABLY TOO LATE TO HAVE THIS DISCSN. BUT IS HERE, AND IS NOW.AT A POT EVERY PERSON'S LIFE, ONE HAS TO LOOK EPLY TO THE MIRROR OF ONE'S SOUL AND CI ONE'S UNIQUE TTH THE WORLD, NOT AS WE MAY WANT TO SEE OR HOPE TO SEE , BUT AS IS.AND SO MY TTH IS THAT I AM A GAY AMERIN. AND I AM BLSED TO LIVE THE GREATT NATN WH THE TRADN OF CIVIL LIBERTI, THE GREATT TRADN OF CIVIL LIBERTI THE WORLD, A UNTRY WHICH PROVIS SO MUCH TO S PEOPLE.YET BEE OF THE PA AND SUFFERG AND ANGUISH THAT I HAVE ED TO MY BELOVED FAY, MY PARENTS, MY WIFE, MY IENDS, I WOULD ALMOST RATHER HAVE THIS MOMENT PASS.FOR THIS IS AN TENSELY PERSONAL CISN, AND NOT ONE TYPILLY FOR THE PUBLIC DOMA. YET, NNOT AND SHOULD NOT PASS.I AM ALSO HERE TODAY BEE, SHAMEFULLY, I ENGAGED ADULT NSENSUAL AFFAIR WH ANOTHER MAN, WHICH VLAT MY BONDS OF MATRIMONY. IT WAS WRONG. IT WAS FOOLISH. IT WAS EXCABLE.AND FOR THIS, I ASK THE FIVENS AND THE GRACE OF MY WIFE.SHE HAS BEEN EXTRAORDARY THROUGHOUT THIS ORAL, AND I AM BLSED BY VIRTUE OF HER LOVE AND STRENGTH.I REALIZE THE FACT OF THIS AFFAIR AND MY OWN SEXUALY IF KEPT SECRET LEAV ME, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY THE ERNOR'S OFFICE, VULNERABLE TO MORS, FALSE ALLEGATNS AND THREATS OF DISCLOSURE.SO I AM REMOVG THE THREATS BY TELLG YOU DIRECTLY ABOUT MY SEXUALY.LET ME BE CLEAR, I ACCEPT TOTAL AND FULL RPONSIBILY FOR MY ACTNS. HOWEVER, I'M REQUIRED TO DO NOW, TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT TO RRECT THE NSEQUENC OF MY ACTNS AND TO BE TTHFUL TO MY LOVED ON, TO MY IENDS AND MY FAY AND ALSO TO MYSELF.IT MAK LTLE DIFFERENCE THAT AS ERNOR I AM GAY. IN FACT, HAVG THE ABILY TO TTHFULLY SET FORTH MY INTY MIGHT HAVE ENABLED ME TO BE MORE FORTHRIGHT FULFILLG AND DISCHARGG MY NSTUTNAL OBLIGATNS.GIVEN THE CIRCUMSTANC SURROUNDG THE AFFAIR AND S LIKELY IMPACT UPON MY FAY AND MY ABILY TO ERN, I HAVE CID THE RIGHT URSE OF ACTN IS TO RIGN.TO FACILATE A RPONSIBLE TRANSN, MY RIGNATN WILL BE EFFECTIVE ON NOVEMBER 15 OF THIS YEAR.I'M VERY PROUD OF THE THGS WE HAVE ACPLISHED DURG MY ADMISTRATN. AND I WANT TO THANK HUMBLY THE CIZENS OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY FOR THE PRIVILEGE TO ERN.1EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT
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• JIM MCGREEVEY: ‘I AM A GAY AMERIN’

“I AM A GAY AMERIN.”GOV. JIM MCGREEVEYON AUGT 12, 2004, NEW JERSEY’S DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR, JIM MCGREEVEY, UNR THREAT OF A SEXUAL HARASSMENT LAWSU OM HIS FORMER MALE LOVER, ANNOUNCED AT A PRS NFERENCE… READ MORE AUG. 13, 20041 VIEWER1 CONTRIBUTOR“I AM A GAY AMERIN.” LYRICSGOOD AFTERNOON. THROUGHOUT MY LIFE, I HAVE GRAPPLED WH MY OWN INTY, WHO I AM. AS A YOUNG CHILD, I OFTEN FELT AMBIVALENT ABOUT MYSELF, FACT, NFED.BY VIRTUE OF MY TRADNS, AND MY MUNY, I WORKED HARD TO ENSURE THAT I WAS ACCEPTED AS PART OF THE TRADNAL FAY OF AMERI. I MARRIED MY FIRST WIFE, KARI, OUT OF RPECT AND LOVE. AND TOGETHER, WE HAVE A WONRFUL, EXTRAORDARY DGHTER. KARI THEN CHOSE TO RETURN TO BRISH COLUMBIA.I THEN HAD THE BLSG OF MARRYG DA, WHOSE LOVE AND JOY FOR LIFE HAS BEEN AN CREDIBLE SOURCE OF STRENGTH FOR ME. AND TOGETHER, WE HAVE THE MOST BETIFUL DGHTER.YET, OM MY EARLY DAYS SCHOOL, UNTIL THE PRENT DAY, I ACKNOWLEDGED SOME FEELGS, A CERTA SENSE THAT SEPARATED ME OM OTHERS. BUT BEE OF MY ROLVE, AND ALSO THKG THAT I WAS DOG THE RIGHT THG, I FORCED WHAT I THOUGHT WAS AN ACCEPTABLE REALY ONTO MYSELF, A REALY WHICH IS LAYERED AND LAYERED WH ALL THE, QUOTE, "GOOD THGS," AND ALL THE, QUOTE, "RIGHT THGS" OF TYPIL ADOLCENT AND ADULT BEHAVR.YET, AT MY MOST REFLECTIVE, MAYBE EVEN SPIRUAL LEVEL, THERE WERE POTS MY LIFE WHEN I BEGAN TO QUTN WHAT AN ACCEPTABLE REALY REALLY MEANT FOR ME. WERE THERE REALI OM WHICH I WAS NNG? WHICH MASTER WAS I TRYG TO SERVE?I DO NOT BELIEVE THAT GOD TORTUR ANY PERSON SIMPLY FOR S OWN SAKE. I BELIEVE THAT GOD ENABL ALL THGS TO WORK FOR THE GREATER GOOD. AND THIS, THE 47TH YEAR OF MY LIFE, IS ARGUABLY TOO LATE TO HAVE THIS DISCSN. BUT IS HERE, AND IS NOW.AT A POT EVERY PERSON'S LIFE, ONE HAS TO LOOK EPLY TO THE MIRROR OF ONE'S SOUL AND CI ONE'S UNIQUE TTH THE WORLD, NOT AS WE MAY WANT TO SEE OR HOPE TO SEE , BUT AS IS.AND SO MY TTH IS THAT I AM A GAY AMERIN. AND I AM BLSED TO LIVE THE GREATT NATN WH THE TRADN OF CIVIL LIBERTI, THE GREATT TRADN OF CIVIL LIBERTI THE WORLD, A UNTRY WHICH PROVIS SO MUCH TO S PEOPLE.YET BEE OF THE PA AND SUFFERG AND ANGUISH THAT I HAVE ED TO MY BELOVED FAY, MY PARENTS, MY WIFE, MY IENDS, I WOULD ALMOST RATHER HAVE THIS MOMENT PASS.FOR THIS IS AN TENSELY PERSONAL CISN, AND NOT ONE TYPILLY FOR THE PUBLIC DOMA. YET, NNOT AND SHOULD NOT PASS.I AM ALSO HERE TODAY BEE, SHAMEFULLY, I ENGAGED ADULT NSENSUAL AFFAIR WH ANOTHER MAN, WHICH VLAT MY BONDS OF MATRIMONY. IT WAS WRONG. IT WAS FOOLISH. IT WAS EXCABLE.AND FOR THIS, I ASK THE FIVENS AND THE GRACE OF MY WIFE.SHE HAS BEEN EXTRAORDARY THROUGHOUT THIS ORAL, AND I AM BLSED BY VIRTUE OF HER LOVE AND STRENGTH.I REALIZE THE FACT OF THIS AFFAIR AND MY OWN SEXUALY IF KEPT SECRET LEAV ME, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY THE ERNOR'S OFFICE, VULNERABLE TO MORS, FALSE ALLEGATNS AND THREATS OF DISCLOSURE.SO I AM REMOVG THE THREATS BY TELLG YOU DIRECTLY ABOUT MY SEXUALY.LET ME BE CLEAR, I ACCEPT TOTAL AND FULL RPONSIBILY FOR MY ACTNS. HOWEVER, I'M REQUIRED TO DO NOW, TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT TO RRECT THE NSEQUENC OF MY ACTNS AND TO BE TTHFUL TO MY LOVED ON, TO MY IENDS AND MY FAY AND ALSO TO MYSELF.IT MAK LTLE DIFFERENCE THAT AS ERNOR I AM GAY. IN FACT, HAVG THE ABILY TO TTHFULLY SET FORTH MY INTY MIGHT HAVE ENABLED ME TO BE MORE FORTHRIGHT FULFILLG AND DISCHARGG MY NSTUTNAL OBLIGATNS.GIVEN THE CIRCUMSTANC SURROUNDG THE AFFAIR AND S LIKELY IMPACT UPON MY FAY AND MY ABILY TO ERN, I HAVE CID THE RIGHT URSE OF ACTN IS TO RIGN.TO FACILATE A RPONSIBLE TRANSN, MY RIGNATN WILL BE EFFECTIVE ON NOVEMBER 15 OF THIS YEAR.I'M VERY PROUD OF THE THGS WE HAVE ACPLISHED DURG MY ADMISTRATN. AND I WANT TO THANK HUMBLY THE CIZENS OF THE STATE OF NEW JERSEY FOR THE PRIVILEGE TO ERN.1EMBEDCANCELHOW TO FORMAT LYRICS:TYPE OUT ALL LYRICS, EVEN REPEATG SONG PARTS LIKE THE CHOSLYRICS SHOULD BE BROKEN DOWN TO DIVIDUAL LUSE SECTN HEARS ABOVE DIFFERENT SONG PARTS LIKE [VERSE], [CHOS], ETC.USE ALICS (<I>LYRIC</I>) AND BOLD (<B>LYRIC</B>) TO DISTGUISH BETWEEN DIFFERENT VOLISTS THE SAME SONG PARTIF YOU DON’T UNRSTAND A LYRIC, E [?]TO LEARN MORE, CHECK OUT OUR TRANSCRIPTN GUI OR VIS OUR TRANSCRIBERS FOMABOUT

But is here, and is a pot every person's life, one has to look eply to the mirror of one's soul and ci one's unique tth the world, not as we may want to see or hope to see , but as so my tth is that I am a gay Amerin. However, I'm required to do now, to do what is right to rrect the nsequenc of my actns and to be tthful to my loved on, to my iends and my fay and also to mak ltle difference that as ernor I am gay. “I am a gay Amerin.

Bee the moment he announced he was gay, people assumed that he did what he did bee a homophobic society forced him, a homosexual, to live a dulent heterosexual life.

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The guy’s gay, and he’s been livg wh a woman all his adult life.

Moreover, the untry — or at least s liberal half, which clus the leadg news media — has a different standard for homosexual and heterosexual ss.

JIM MCGREEVEY: ‘I AM A GAY AMERIN’

Heterosexual men who have many partners are nmned as womanizers; homosexual men who have many partners are largely ignored. When Massachetts gay ngrsman Barney Frank nfirmed, as reported by the Washgton Post, “that he paid Stephen Gobie for sex, hired him wh personal funds as an ai and wrote letters on ngrsnal statnery on his behalf to Virgia probatn officials, ” and that Gobie ran a gay prostutn service om Congrsman Frank’s apartment, meant nothg to his voters or to most of the untry. So, Governor McGreevey knew exactly what he was dog when he announced, “I am a gay Amerin.

” In addn to elicg passn, he was appealg to the double standard the untry holds on behalf of gays — and strikg a blow for same-sex marriage.