With fabulousness and honesty.
Oh.
Posted on 07/25/2007 6:25:09 AM PDT by paudio
By the time Tammy Faye Messner died Friday, the outspoken, fake-eyelash-donning 65-year-old had gone from Christian televangelist to reviled woman to gay icon. How did Messner become a gay icon?
With fabulousness and honesty. Tammy Faye's religious background made her an unlikely object for this kind of adulation, but in many ways she had the classic profile of a gay icon. Like many others, she became celebrated for her perseverance. She fell from grace (and lost much of her money) when it was discovered that her husband, Jim Bakker, had cheated on her and swindled their followers out of $158 million. But Tammy Faye talked openly about her pain on TV and stood by her man after his conviction, singing at a press conference, "On Christ the solid rock I stand/ All other ground is sinking sand." Her refusal to change her unique style—runny mascara, gawdy jewelry, and all—also made her icon-worthy.
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I watched a documentary on her last night. She would visit the Gay AIDS victims at facilities and minister to them.
Homosexuals are full of hate, and they show it in many odd ways.
I didn’t know that. Did she visit her husband in prison?
She knew, they all came to her book signings.
Oh.
SPELL CHECK! gaudy, no?
They probably stand in awe of her makeup inventory.
Gays seem to love to make icons out of train wrecks.
In her interview with Larry King, she said something to the effect that when she was down and out, it was “the gay people” who came to her and encouraged her. Or something like that. I still didn’t get it, even after that explanation.
To my shame I saw Tammy Faye on the “Surreal Life” (guilty pleasure number 358 that I indulge in). She was surprisingly dignified and compelling. RIP.
I have a long held, deep, abiding faith in God.
I have no faith at all in the institutions of man raised up in worship of God.
This woman is the personification of why I feel this way about any Church. One of many actually.....
Until she died, I never knew Tammy Faye was a ‘gay icon.’ Those nutty homosexuals!
I know she visited him a few times at first. They barely mentioned it. Most of the show was about her struggle with cancer.
BARF!
...and sincerity ...heh,heh,heh...
I read an article (here on FR I think) that a homosexual pastor who was a friend of her husband's performed the funeral service. My guess would be that Tammy Faye didn't have a problem with being a 'homosexual icon'.
I wonder what the Lord said to her about that when she saw Him.
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