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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
I always thought Michelle Shocked was a lesbian. I guess she answered that one.
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She may very well be -- supposedly she was cagey in interviews back in the day when caginess was understood to be a coy admission of such things -- but she's adopted a form of Christianity in which gay sex is viewed as prohibited. That strikes the rigorously modern mind as hypocritical, but it's possible to be gay and believe one's sexuality is on the naughty list, no different from wanting to have extramarital affairs but feeling these are religiously prohibited. The idea that orientation is (a.) more structural than mere urge and (b.) eventually trumps belief because "God made you that way" is very recent. God made some people very horny but to a religious way of thinking that doesn't mean he wants you to fuck anything that moves.
