Central Gossip Agency [Johnnie Walker's father is homosexual]

SF Examiner ^ | 12/19/01 | PJ Corkery

[RightThinkinDood]

NOT THAT IT MATTERS a whit to us here in the cool, gray city of love what Frank Lindh, daddy of the Taliban warrior from Marin, does, did or dreams of doing with other consenting adults, but shouldn't he come clean with us about all the facts in the odd odyssey of his son?

Frank Lindh has been quoted time and again as saying it was his son John's reading of the "Autobiography of Malcolm X" when John was 16 in 1997 that turned his son's head and heart towards Islam. But something else then going on in the family's life may be have been just as pertinent.

When Frank Lindh left his family in 1997, it was to move in with a male companion. Yep. ... The man with whom Lindh lived has since been described as "a family friend," but other family friends say the men lived as a gay couple.

It would take a specialist in family issues to map the constellations of feelings and problems that would describe John Walker's path toward Islam in 1997, but sources close to the family say the father's turn of life from married man to modern gay man startled and flustered the 16-year-old.

Given the pummeling that the Walkers and marvy Marin County have taken from the national press over their wayward son, you can't blame the old man for wanting to suppress reporting on his sexuality. ...

[gunnedah]

Homosexuals today are as brazen as they were in Soddom & Gomorrah-wake up America before it is too late!Homosexuals and liberals are almost one in the same and most certainly approach their agendas the same way and we must not cower to them.I am affraid though that if you raise your voice to a Republican he will retreat.

[B Knotts]

BUT, here's the smoking howitzer (as savage says), they say poor johnny, screwed up because his father is gay....well, they'll save Johnny Jihad's life, HOWEVER gay rights, marriage adoption, even the dems in california, well, it WILL be doomsay!

Oh, how I wish I could say that I think you're right about that. Sadly, I'm afraid that this will only be a small bump on the highway to moral and political decay.

[MeekOneGOP]

Don't you wish you could be one of them? They looked so happy! Just imagine the children they'll have!

Actually no, I don't wish that at all. I think that lifestyle is disgusting, and only post that picture for humor. If they had children, they would probably look like this:

[Notwithstanding]

Not that it excuses his bahavior....

but do you really think there is no differece between an adolescent boy losing his dad to a gay man and an adult losing thier daughter to a lesbian?

This then-adolescent boy did not know where to turn and finds stability in a strict religion. It explains only his attraction to Islam. The traitor thing is his own fault, but we should all be glad to see that the "alternative lifestyle" has been exposed as the main factor that began Walker's walk toward Islamic fundamentalism.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

With Atta and Osama, that makes at least 3 sexually abnormal types in this story. Then...there's Geraldo...

[MeekOneGOP]

In fact, let's see those together. If these two had childern:

They would look something like this!:

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

Forgot to mention Bill and Hillary Clinton, whose preoccupation with Monica matters led to a criminal neglect of national security. This IS a sex story!

[Slyfox]

You know what gets me is that on one hand the homosexual lifestyle is, according to the hollywood types, one which should be aspired to. Then, on the other hand, don't you DARE be a conservative and found out to be gay because you will be outed and your life will be ruined. Maybe the SF Eaxaminer figures since this Walker dad has claimed to be a Catholic, which is usually synominous with being conservative, maybe they think he is fair game for ruination. Knowing the way his son turned out I don't know if any conservative would claim him as one of their own. He is just like his son, in a no man's land of his own making.

[thucydides]

Apparently the emphasis on the catholic bit was to offset the fact that Mr. Lindh left his family in 1997 to move in with another man in a gay relationship, according to the gossip columnist in the SF Chronicle.

[monkeyshine]

Lindh is a Scandinavian name I believe. I don't think it's necessarily a Jewish name.

[Jack Barbara]

When Frank Lindh left his family in 1997, it was to move in with a male companion. Yep. ... The man with whom Lindh lived has since been described as "a family friend," but other family friends say the men lived as a gay couple.

It is very expensive to live in the Bay Area. Perhaps he moved in with a family friend when he left his wife -- I don't find this as evidence of anything. Who are these anonymous "family friends". They don't sound very friendly to me.

It would take a specialist in family issues to map the constellations of feelings and problems that would describe John Walker's path toward Islam in 1997, but sources close to the family say the father's turn of life from married man to modern gay man startled and flustered the 16-year-old.

Now they are "sources close to the family" rather than friends. Still, with such an accusation, shouldn't the names/relationship to family be published?

Given the pummeling that the Walkers and marvy Marin County have taken from the national press over their wayward son, you can't blame the old man for wanting to suppress reporting on his sexuality.

Or maybe he's not gay. Can I blame the purfeshinal jurnilist for furthing his career by spreading vicious gossip?

For those of you who have not been slimed in the press, your turn will come.

[KSCITYBOY]

Your right - I hope this little traitors blood doesn't touch US soil. Still there is an upside if he goes to prison (regular, real prison), he will have a very tough time if he is put into the general population.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Just goes to show:

When you raise your child in a moral vacuum, the results will suck.

[Shermy]

It's probably relevant. And it would come out. And we're going to hear a lot more about it. It's the demeanor and context of this article I found vicious. ""It doesn't matter, but..."" My comment about a "catfight"...attempted humour. Meaning, why does this writer have such an axe to grind? Something personal?

[Gimlet]

Low estimate of the number of children in lesbian and gay households is 6 million. Evidence suggests that no bigger proportion than the "regular" population are drug addicted, engaged in criminal, violent and self destructive behavior, or otherwise anti-social. Not too many Taliban either.

[Gimlet]

It would matter. But the other six million plus kids in lesbian and gay households seem to cope pretty well.

[Gimlet]

I think that this "news" is posturing by his lawyers. Agreed