Via Gilliard, we learn that yet another fundamentalist homophobe is secretly attracted to men:

(Oklahoma City, Oklahoma) An executive committee member of the Southern Baptist Convention was arrested on a lewdness charge for propositioning a male plainclothes policeman outside a hotel, police said.

Lonnie Latham, senior pastor at South Tulsa Baptist Church, was booked into Oklahoma County Jail Tuesday night on a misdemeanor charge of offering to engage in an act of lewdness, police Capt. Jeffrey Becker said. Latham was released on $500 bail Wednesday afternoon.

Latham, who has spoken out against homosexuality, asked the officer to join him in his hotel room for oral sex. Latham was arrested and his 2005 Mercedes automobile was impounded, Becker said.

I remember when I watched Angels in America, being annoyed at what seemed to me at the time as the triteness of the repressed straight religious character who, ha ha, turns out to be secretly gay! But in the intervening years, I’ve noticed that stories like this one seem to show up, gosh, several times a month. I guess Tony Kushner knew what he was talking about after all.

… to the Kossacks who clicked through on the Bush (almost) equals Nixon thing. I see that several of your compatriots are suggesting that “someone” should put the image on a shirt. Could one of you do me a favor and point out that the cartoonist already did? (Incidentally, I tried to register as “Tom Tomorrow” so I could post the comment myself, but the username is “already taken”… don’t know what that’s about …)

…update from a reader:

I saw your comment about the tom tomorrow user id being taken at Daily Kos. I went to that user’s page and found this:

“I am not the real Tom Tomorrow. I created this account after reading that someone had been spoofing his name on other blogs. I have no plans on posting from this account. If the real Tom Tomorrow contacts Kos to get this account, I’d be happy to let him.”

My thanks to whoever was watching out for me there.