Son’s sex arrest reignites questions about Bishop Jakes’ own sexual orientation

[canis_lupus]

From The Washington Blade:

WHEN PREACHERS PONTIFICATE too much from on high about the sins of homosexual sex, the cautionary tale is to be careful of what you say, because your words invariably will come back to bite you.

For Bishop T.D. Jakes, the internationally known African-American evangelical star dubbed the “black Billy Graham,” his rantings against homosexuality have come back to bite him after his son’s recent arrest.

On Jan. 3, Jermaine Jakes was arrested in a sex sting for allegedly soliciting gay sex from an undercover vice detective in a public park just a few blocks from his father’s church, The Potter’s House, a 30,000-member megachurch in Dallas.

While Bishop Jakes is tight-lipped on the topic of his son’s homosexuality, the African-American LGBTQ community isn’t. As a matter of fact, the son’s arrest has the black gay community abuzz with rumors resurfacing about Bishop Jakes’ own sexual orientation.

http://www.washblade.com/2009/2-27/view/columns/14140.cfm

[Toasterlad]

How Does the Son Being Gay Make the Father Gay?

[Stevenmarc]

3. There have been rumors floating around

the daddy Jakes was gay it's the sons media exposure that resurrected those rumors.

[Toasterlad]

1. Dupe

[xchrom]

2. i can only be amused -- in light of other recent news. nt

[dickthegrouch]

4. Best sig ever says it all

One of us has a signature which says

Abstinence make the church grow fondlers

(apologies I don't remember who) and I think there's a HUGE amount of hypocrisy in the church about all kinds of things. What they preach are supposed to be ideals, but most of them are so unattainable that I consider them worse than useless, rather, actively toxic.

[GodlessBiker]

5. Good luck, Jermaine. It can't be easy having that idiot as a father.