To Out Or Not To Out? Depends On The Hypocrite!

Feeling So Good About Someone Else's Shame

Conservative Christian university official busted in gay sex sting

By 365gay Newscenter Staff
12.03.2008 4:40pm EST

(Cincinnati, Ohio) The chief financial officer of Cincinnati Christian University has pleaded not guilty to prostitution charges. Police arrested Robert Williams, 52, on the weekend after he allegedly got into a man’s car in Mount Airy Forest and “touched his genitals.” The man in car was an undercover cop. Williams has been placed on administrative leave while the case continues. “We are shocked and dismayed by the news,” said Cincinnati Christian University President David Faust in a statement. “This is a personal tragedy for him and for his family, and we lift them up in our prayers.”

Openly gay students are not accepted by the university, and students who come out can be expelled. Cincinnati Christian University was founded in 1924 and has about 540 undergraduate students.

There's always something sad about outing someone, even if that someone is a hypocrite. But if he or she is not, then a purposeful sting operation is wrong. Very, very wrong.

I'm sure that many people cheered when Pastor Ted Haggard and Sen. Craig Stevens were exposed. I was one of them. It's always sweet when we catch a person saying one thing while doing another (person). The higher they are, the more we love to see them fall. The more sanctimonious they seem, the more we relish seeing them tarnished.

But when a "sting" operation arrests a a person who has no history of bashing/condemning anyone (we don't know if the above CFO actively participated in anti-gay discrimination), then it's the public (or in this case, the police force) that is wrong.

The chief hypocrite in this case seems to be the president of the university (Pres. David Faust - the name sounds familiar - has he sold his soul?). His statement sounds guarded, insincere and rather treacly. "Lift them up in our prayers" sounds more like "Out! Out damned spot!"

Hypocrites deserve humiliation.

Closeted people deserve respect.

Just a thought.