A Gay Grandson to an Evangelical Empire

[William769]

The day of reckoning was set in 2002. Randy Roberts Potts stood in the kitchen as everything was waking up. He finally felt a spreading definition, a pulling value as though he had remembered what he needed for the first time in all his 27 years on mortal earth.

“I’m gay. I’m gay. I’m gay,” he realized.

Ten years later, Potts sits in front of an emotional crowd — many of them Oral Roberts University alumni — inside the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center’s Liberty Education Forum to speak about his perspective on faith and sexuality. He shakes his head, smiles a honeydew grin that belies memories big enough to break through stained-glass windows, and then begins sharing them. Potts continues to measure his former self — the closeted grandchild of televangelist Oral Roberts — against the one we see on stage: A proud, openly gay man.

“It was a very slow process,” he told the crowd. “It took a lot of years of therapy and learning to be OK with myself on a lot of levels, not just sexually.”

http://www.advocate.com/News/News_Features/A_Gay_Grandson_to_an_Evangelical_Empire/

[joeybee12]

1. KNR

[Coyote_Bandit]

2. A Little Bit of Trivia Here

(1) Uncle Ronnie was an intelligent gifted man who had a problem with drug abuse. He had been arrested in the Tulsa area a few months before his suicide (which was reported as a drug overdose) for writing forged prescriptions. There used to be DUer here who knew Ronnie. I'm told that Ronnie was embarrassed by the manner in which his father earned his livlihood.

(2) Although it is not affiliated with the university, there is a gay ORU alumni association. In the past, they have picketed on the right of way which is in front of both the university and the mega church across the street.

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3. Recommend

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. It's a journey not everyone has the courage to take...

Good for him!

Recommended.

[William769]

5. Ditto.