Holy shit. This is the Chicago Tribune actual headline:
"Reagan's `homophobic' 1st son steps up to counter brother"Man, tell us what you REALLY think, Chicago Trib. Seriously, this article about Michael Reagan shows what a total bigoted freak this man is. He either thinks rape causes homosexuality, or all gays are a danger to children, or something. Either way, the man is fucked up, and needs a good session with a psychologist a lot more than a national audience.
For years, Michael Reagan, the older son of Ronald Reagan, felt unloved and unwanted. His parents divorced when he was 3. Two years later he was packed off to a boarding school where, he says, he was so lonely he cried himself to sleep. Sexually abused at age 7, he felt shame and self-loathing, compounded by Bible passages that convinced him he would never go to heaven....
Then, he says, he found salvation through the love of his family and his "adoption" by God. He embraced conservative values and became a syndicated talk radio host who today tells listeners: "I am homophobic."
Reagan has become a strong opponent of same-sex marriage, saying its validation of homosexuality will push young people into sex that will inflict the "guilt and pain that I have lived with all my life."....
Reagan was 7, hungry for fatherly attention, when an after-school camp counselor sexually molested him, he says. The man took nude photographs of him and showed them to him in a darkroom.
Reagan says he worried for years that the photos would someday embarrass his family. Thus began a life of secrets and shame, Reagan says in his new book, "Twice Adopted," which will go on sale this fall.
His book suggests that same-sex marriage could place young people at an increased risk of the kind of trauma he suffered.
"If same-sex marriage becomes accepted as having equal validity with traditional heterosexual marriage, what kinds of social pressure will our children and grandchildren have to face?" he writes.
"That's why today I can honestly say on my show, I admit it; I am homophobic,' " he writes. "If I wasn't homophobic before, I am today."
