We joked today that some of the guys from Invisible Children, the nonprofit behind the Kony 2012 campaign, seemed like the kind of repressed fundamentalist closet cases we knew in college.
Well, IC co-founder Jason Russell (right) might not be gay, but heâs definitely repressedâand apparently that spring snapped last night in San Diego, where police found him masturbating on the corner of Ingraham Street and Riviera Road.
NBC reports police detained Russell, 33 (like Jesus!), in Pacific Beach last night for playing with himself in public and vandalizing cars. Lt. Andra Brown, who was on the scene, believes Russell was also under the influence of alcohol or some other substance.
On the IC website, Russell is described as a Christian who wants to have nine more children with his wife, whom he calls his âbest friend for over 23 years.â
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Jason âRadicalâ Russell is a co-founder of Invisible Children, as well as our grand storyteller and dreamer. His sparks of creative intelligence and insanity have propelled IC to redefine the concept of humanitarian work, offering new life to old hope. A filmmaker by trade, Jason graduated from the University of Southern Californiaâs film school with a degree in Cinema Production. He admires Oprah, Bono, Steven Spielberg, Walt Disney, Steve Jobs, Baz Luhrmann, and Dan Eldon and believes wholeheartedly in magic and the impossible. Already a proud papa to Gavin Danger and Everley Darling, Jason wants to have nine more children with his beautiful wife DanicaâĂĂŽthe girl who has been his best friend for over 23 years.
HmmâŚworshiping Oprah and Baz Luhrmann, overcompensating with nutso boasts of virility, and calling your wife your âbest friendâ? Jeez, maybe he is a closet case. Or at the very least a hipster douchebag. You named your son Gavin Danger? Seriously?
Source: NBC San Diego. Photo: Invisible Children
parasite eve
WAHAHAHAHHAA lol fooled yah all
Kyle
Typical.
Christophe Banks
What is it with Christian activists and sex scandals? Maybe he’ll try and claim in court it was invisible jizz.
Mikel D McGrew
How about Everley Darling? I mean it reeks of poor white trash and illusions of grandeur. It is always refreshing when these nut cases get hoist on their own petard!
Kyle
Another gay man desperate to be straight and religious. Another gay man…
D Bowman
Alcohol and sexual acting out are common human issues. Many people in our community have struggled with these. He is human also. His failings don’t necessarily lesson his desire to see justice done for the poor. Let us not be hypocrites.
Kyle
@D Bowman: Those who have not struggled with these issues are gay men who know who they are, respect who they are, and love who they are.
Austin
@Kyle:
He is married and has 2 childrens. He isn’t gay he was just drunk damn. But it still doesn’t mean that he wasn’t right about Kony 2012
Kyle
@D Bowman: You might be a hypocrite who drinks and can’t control himself sexually, but I am none of that. So, I can call this guy a piece of shit all I want. And, so can anybody else.
Kyle
@Austin: Ahh…gay men don’t get married and have kids. Got it. Where’s your Pulitzer nomination? I think you’re onto something… :/
JayKay
So he’s had quite a week.
Yobert
Honestly this is BS
Doesnt anyone notice that when someone gains
Attention from the youth and sparks a rebel feel in everyone some weird media bullcrap always happens whether it be from michael jackson to, bob marley, john lennon, i can keep going. They always use the media to try to hold or break someone down when they feel he or she is getting too much power. Think about it. This dude has a son and a campaign thats actually working. And outta know where hes insane and “on something”
Screw that.
America is blinded by whatever the media says..
No one believed michael and eventually the media bashed him
He dies and the media acts like they loved him.
America is meant to be a land of being controlled by fear. Any rebels get exterminated, or shit like this happens… You guys are really douchebags…it saddens me
GreatGatsby2011
“(like Jesus!)”
Priceless.
DJ Veno
Hmm well did he even give his side of the story?
Shannon1981
Vandalism and public masturbation. How Christian of you, Mr. Russell.
dude he's gay
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see he’s in the closet. Gay, gay gay gay, gay.
lizcivious
@Mikel D McGrew: Gavin Danger would make a great drag king name, and Everley Darling would make a great drag queen name (an homage to Candy Darling). Wow, I didn’t know this repressed fellow was from Pacific Beach, an area I’m very familiar with. He must have been watching some hot surfer boys when he was arrested and started busting things up when he realized he’d have to go home to his “best friend of 23 years” to make nine more brats.
BubbasBack
LOLOLOLOL. I said it a few days back, and I’ll say it again. He’s gay and repressed. BURP.
Ta2d
He’s got “gay face”. My gaydar is going off like crazy. He’s gay, definitely.
KSKSK
GO TO TMZ RIGHT NOW! THEY HAVE THE VIDEO ITS FUCKING HILARIOUS.
B
No. 3 ¡ Christophe Banks wrote, “What is it with Christian activists and sex scandals? Maybe heâll try and claim in court it was invisible jizz.”
I doubt if he’d try to claim that in court – the prosecutor could counter by saying, “For lo, the invisible hath become visible.” (or however you’d say that in King James English).
It does have some interesting theological implications. After a quick search I found
Colossians 1:15: “Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature”.
Combining the two pairs “God” with “the invisible jizz”. something I don’t think a “Christian activist” would want to even indirectly suggest.
AEH
Hmmm, no frontal shots?
kris
my first reaction;
regardless of his sexuality if he behaves like that sober,
straight, i wouldnt want him babysitting my young child relative.
im sadly reminded how often predators/exhibitionists gravitate toward vulnerable child agencies.
hopefully im wrong abt him,hopefully he was on coke or x at least!.
i cant wait to here his side of the story-and not his christian lawyers version.
i hope invisible kids inc. arent paying for his lawyers either.
kris
Truthie
Thank you all for not chasing me out of here when I started posting about this. I knew he was not what he presented himself to be but didn’t expect such rapid public confirmation. Hard to have sympathy for someone who has so craven manipulated vulnerable young people for right wing evangelicals and people who want a stronger US military presence in Africa, but I hope he gets the help he needs and comes to terms with himself even as these sleazy organization he founded is publicly exposed.
Great web site! Keep it up… đ
QJ201
Party with Tina, turn into Ike.
ChristopherM
I saw him on Anderson earlier this week. No way is he straight.
CB
From the Washington Post: “Russell has also directed and choreographed over 20 theatrical stage productions and performed in over 100 different shows, the bio said.” Case closed? <3
cwm
@lizcivious: Candy says
I’ve come to hate my body
And all that it requires
In this world
Candy says
I’d like to know completely
What others so discreetly
Talk about
Franco
When I watched the Kony 2012 video for the first time I thought to myself, “This guy isn’t right,” I felt there was something off about him. Maybe I was right.
Kev C
So he pulled a Pee Wee Herman. There’s a lotta things about Jason we wouldn’t understand. Things we couldn’t understand. Things you shouldn’t understand.
camote
Franco, you were right!
vixlad
just saw him on anderson cooper. A total closet case.
Nick Farben
Queerty missed a few things from your report.
– He had a mental breakdown from stress and public attention
– He has been checked into a hospital to receive care
Was it really necessary to paint a target on the head of a man who is suffering, repression or not?
TheMarc
How noble of you all to attack him. How Christian of you. How moral. How righteous. Indeed, he is obviously deserving of it considering the innumerable attacks he has launched the LGBT community. He has hasn’t he? Surely, you are not all launching an attack based on an unsubstantiated bias; ya know, how men like Rick Santorum attack us all for being sexual deviants and pedophiles because we are a member of the LGBT community.
Naturally, what he did is not “good.” One can’t really begin to defend his actions. But I’m not about to pretend that it it just and logical to attack this man for being anti-gay when I have yet to hear one anti-gay statement, action or even personal donation attributed directly to him or his organization. We as a community fight against generalizations, stereotypes and out right lies on a daily basis. Of all people, I would expect us to wait to judge a man on his merits and actions before attacking him as a right-wing, anti-gay bigot.
parasite eve
@D Bowman: i get drunk but i know what i do đ
jj
I’m guessing he is bipolar and had a psychotic break. Drunk people don’t act like that, and I doubt he is a recreational LSD user. Sad.
Belize
@Kev C: The same thing is usually said about God when “he” is questioned by skeptics (Sans the Pee Wee Herman bit as far as I know.)
lickety splitz
To be honest, I have not followed any of this Kony stuff that everyone’s been talking about. As soon as I heard “Africa” my “I give a fuck” light turned off.
steve sydney
Americans have access to the best meth in the world these days..
and he set off my gaydar immediately .. I literally gasped when he said he had a son.
Surita
whatever he’s cute, i’ll let him jizz all over my mouth
Danny
It makes the organization being called Invisible Children really, really, really creepy.
Blah, bla..huh?
@Yobert: Well, considering the fact that “rebels” from the right wing are fascists who are truly pathological in their pursuit of social engineering, I’m gonna celebrate my “douchebag” status then. Being uncritical of your own oppression is just pathetic, you might want to study a little bit about PR and coercion before you go casting your lot with the libertarian and neocon “hipster rebels”, because marks like you tend to get jacked by them as a rule.
vitamin k
@D Bowman:
“His failings donât necessarily lesson his desire to see justice done for the poor. Let us not be hypocrites.”
no, but they may very well diminish his ability to seek justice done for the poor, especially with the controversy surrounding their cash grab stunt. his intentions have been called into question, and it’s episodes like this hint at his character, and at the very least his state of mind. no matter how you dice it, this is the person that made and circulated the kony 2012 video, regardless of what kind of person he really is.
takakupo
The commentary on this site is so shallow sometimes -____-‘
Rooney
According to gawker: “So, it seems this guy is a total pervert, hates black people, burns the Koran, molests suburban christian soccer moms, a closeted homosexual, is from Canada, sees invisible children, into crack cocaine and PCP… Apparently he also has a schlong strong enough to crack pavement and is surprisingly doable.
The most interesting man in the world.”
Has hipster repressed neocon written all over him. But let’s call a spade a spade here: at least he’s not one of those sick assholes who rapes kids in private? Not that we know off at least, that’s a redeeming quality, relatively speaking. Masturbating in bright daylight, in public, if that’s all he’s done where deviant sexuality is concerned, makes him 1,000,000 times better than Pope Palpatine and his band of merry child molesters, and the GOP lunatics who would kill lgbt with one hand while they order a twink from rentboy.com with the other. Hey, George Rekers, consider this your call-out!
Clockwork
Why do you folks so desperately want this man to be a closest case?
Is masturbating in public now a sign of being gay?
Let him stay in hetrosexual kook pervert land, we don’t want him.
Jeremy
Why does the gay community take so much delight in declaring straight people “gay and in denial” based on their mannerisms and the way they dress? Shouldn’t we be sending the message that straight men shouldn’t be afraid to show their softer sides without being labelled? Or is the prospect of another potential mate just too much to resist?
parasite eve
he may be a scammer….but im getting tired of all the gay people keeps telling straight people as gay like TAYLOR LAUTNER…..and now this guy….i hate this guy as well but instead ur making people hate us more for keeps saying they are gay,.,….HES NOT DUSTIN ZITO U KNOW lol
Jake
Austin,
Your “he’s not gay because he’s married with children” is just as absurd as when screaming young female fans of any closeted gay artist say the same thing just befored they are outed.
You obviously haven’t watched any of the recent video interviews of Russell. He’s clearly a closeted gay man who’s most likely had a nervous breakdown over all the fallout from the recent publicity. There are countless various blog comments making mention that Russell is gay and he is the only one who can’t handle HIS own truth. Bottom line – the girl lost it! Everyone now knows his secret and he cracked.
Hopefully he’ll get his act together and come out of the closet. It will do wonders for his mental health!
GABRIEL
?Queerty and everyone who feels so entitled to judge people you don’t even know on a personal level… REALLY?! You take a man that has done something bigger than himself and most of the people in the world currently (including your own writers queerty magazine!) and attack him for masturbating in public and “being a closet case”?!
When in reality we, gay men, have been accused of “sexual deviant behaviour” and actually done even worse things than the one he did masturbating in public…REALLY?! like none of you have walked out of a club and seen your own friends or other gay/straight men doing more than masturbating outisde the club, in the parking lots and other public places, sometimes even sober?
This is a campaign to promote awareness of KONY, a mass murderer and pyschopath who has taken countless lives, NOT to discuss Jason Russell’s sexual behaviour and fetishes.
You are all acting like you have never actually done something, if not a lot of things, that you regret while being drunk or sober? and have you even done something remotely valuable to humanity or as big as he has done with this campaign?!
WHO ARE YOU TO JUDGE SOMEBODY THAT HAS DONE AND IS DOING A LOT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS? HAVE YOU DONE SOMETHING TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE ON THIS PLANET? HAVE YOU SPENT 10 YEARS OF YOUR LIFE ON SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY MATTERS?
THIS IS WHY THE WORLD DOESN’T TAKE US, THE LGBT COMMUNITY, SERIOUSLY. We, along with religious extremists,ignorants, and haters; are the ones who bully, bash and judge our own kind, who will respect us if we don’t even respect ourselves?.
We make fun of the flamming queens for being “too gay” for the straight acting ones for “trying to prented to be something they are not” or for the gay man who struggles with his identity and sexual orientation “for being a closet case”,as long as that man doesn’t attack us as a community give him a break! let him come out at his own time, this including JASON RUSSELL.
It’s not your duty to pass judgement on others but it is your duty to help one another, to value one another, to develop and grow inside as a human being!
THESE SHOULD BE OUR PRIORITIES AND NOT ACTING LIKE TOTAL DOUCHEBAGS, THE BAD KIND!
christiancode
This is the behaviour of a potential sex offender. I hope this sicko gets the help he needs and stays away from children!
Kev C
@GABRIEL: Dude was flailing nude in broad daylight like a meth head. This is not the time for finger wagging, amigo.
Mark
I can’t think of any amount on alcohol where I would be impaired enough to jack off in public
Facepalm
@Gabriel and others who support Kony 2012:
Please consult the websites of actual experts on peace and conflict studies and sustainable development before you praise or give money to the IC campaign or others like it. These “awareness campaigns” usually have no positive consequences for victims, and after produce further negative effects. (You can read up on the what happened as a result of the Save Darfur campaign for some examples.)
While it does feel good to think that your actions make a positive difference, spreading and contributing to these glamourfest “humanitarian” organizations do little more than enrich and make famous the people behind them, at best.
The most positive thing I can say about Russell to give him the benefit of the doubt is that he might be so stupid to believe his own propaganda. (And you, viewers, are not stupid to to believe it. It’s slickly produced, and contains some truth.) He’s culpable because he has been no doubt exposed to professionals that spend their lives working in refugee camps and negotiating with people in power to end violent conflict and product stability.
If you are glad you heard about Kony, and want to know about more atrocities, read the wiki page on the war in the eastern DRC, or any war. IC advocates giving military support to an army that has caused much more suffering than Kony and his LRA (though without the same chilling half baked ideology). I would still prefer to not encourage more death. That’s just me.
The Real Mike in Asheville
@GABRIEL: Well Gabriel, sometime bad people do good things/good people do bad things.
Human history is littered with vile murderous monsters, a group that certainly includes Kony. Ending that mad man’s reign of terror is as important as endings of predecessor monsters — Taylor, Amin, Khmer Rouge, Hilter, et al. That Russell has made great awareness of the horrors of Kony a world-wide campaign, is a great step forward for those under Kony’s thumb.
NONETHELESS, being a good guy in an effort to depose Kony is not carte blanche license to go midday masturbating in the streets of any city. That others have engaged in public sex going well beyond masturbation does not excuse anyone, no matter what attributes they offer to society, from walking around a relatively busy neighborhood in broad daylight during business hours pulling their pud on the sidewalks. When folks gay/straight get caught engaging in sex in public, they too get arrested.
And such a poor representation of personal ethics, is certainly to reasonable basis to question the authenticity of his other actions. Perhaps one has nothing to do with the other, but when one is soliciting donations for their cause, it is reasonable to question whether other acts of unethical and immoral conduct has occurred.
And this is all magnified considering Russell and the IC effort is financially linked to right wing virulently anti-gay hate groups, it is important to know what is what.
lohen
@Kyle: yes they do. my uncle did exactly that. got a wife had a kid divorced his wife got custody of the kid and some time later and got his own man. daughter is kind of a train wreck though….
Don’t speak for everyone when you know nothing at all.
FunMe
We should just hook up Jane Rusell, I mean Josh Russell with Kirk Cameron. That will help both of those closet queen out with their “problem”!
Marcel
Not doubting that he is Christian, but you state that his bio on the IC website is explicit about this. Your citation doesn’t reflect it.
Kinsey6
I saw him on Anderson Cooper too and I could tell immediately that he is gay. My gaydar was pegged at 10 and blinking red. I just figured he was out of the closet. Now I find out that he’s a repressed closet case and (hypocritical) Christian too. Ughhhh! Not another one. I’m so sick of these Ted Haggard/Larry Craig types…
Reply
Agree with the point on withholding judgement. It’s good to hear both sides of the case first.
But I think some people here have just been hurt by the straight community through individuals, their church and communities, and sometimes people just need to vent and fight back.
Nevertheless, the LGBT community can be bigger people, more tolerant, and more compassionate than the bigots like Santorum and other un-Christ-like church-goers.
Carl
Well, TMZ released a video of him going bat-shit crazy as if he was either on some strong shit or possibly mind-controlled. Not sure if anyone here is totally on that Kony 2012 band-wagon, but to me it seemed fishy from the start. Just researching and finding out where like 70% of the donations go is already a eye-brow raiser…along with who else is funding and behind this whole campaign.
If you ask me just the fact alone that it’s been recently reported that Uganda has billions of dollars’ worth of dollars of oil and that all of a sudden our government is all behind this thing seems fishy, especially with the advent of AFRICOM…Hell, with all those Ugandans totally hating on this thing too!
John Williams
We don’t need people like him to reflect the gay community.
Shannon1981
@FunMe: I’d love to be a fly on the wall in that rest stop.
Shannon1981
I kind of get the feeling that a lot of the money he collected went to support a meth habit and nothing more..
the other Greg
@Carl: When I first heard about this stuff I assumed it was organized by the sort of starry-eyed liberals who always object (& not incorrectly) whenever the U.S. invades a place that has oil. Some liberals only want the U.S. to invade third-world hellholes that they think have no natural resources whatsoever, so that our motives can be solely humanitarian and pure, or something. Think, the usual lefty cartoon image of Haiti.
(For that matter, most Americans seem to think Mexico is a dust-blown wasteland full of tumbleweeds! Shhh – Mexico exports oil – don’t tell the Republicans or we’ll have a second war with Mexico.)
Then it became clear that “Kony 2012” was not run by liberals at all, but by right-wing Christian anti-gay nutbags.
Now you tell us Uganda has oil? Fuck. Sounds like maybe the “perfect storm” of both lefty & righty invasion impulses.
Alex
You should see the video they shit of him on tnx. That guy is flaming!!! The way he talks and the finger snapping. He let his inner gay come out!!! It was FIERCE!!!!
Tiger
“Look at my children! They go to 11!”
Carl
@the other Greg:
Here’s the proof: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/25/uganda-oil-find-energy-companies
Africa has ALWAYS been raped from their natural resources by all kinds of foreign companies for usually western, european or asian (Chinese) interest. One minute they realize alot of oil is found in that shithole country, then all of a sudden this “experiment” gets all this unprecedented attention. It’s really sad this vicious cycle keeps perpetuating itself while so many sheeple blindly follow the propaganda machine cause it’s currently the most trendy thing to do.
America always needed a bad guy to focus all their attention to to carry out their real agendas. People should really start researching AFRICOM to realize the true agenda behind this. If the Ugandans hate this documentary so much that the government are now trying to “ban” screenings of this thing…you can be sure that Jason knows damn well his “experiment” he and the IC worked sooo hard on resulted into an epic backfire. I think he realizes too that he’s getting more negative attention now then Kony himself…LOL!
FunMe
@Shannon1981: sounds like repression of who he really is. Just saw the NEW video at TMZ and he seems very gay:
http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/18/jason-russell-video-naked-meltdown-kony/5/#comments-anchor
Oh my goodness! Those moves will even make RuPaul jealous!
Chloe
@Nick Farben: thank you for saying that……I can’t believe the amount of hostility toward someone who is obviously having a Mental Health crisis in public….why are people so quick to “throw stones”?
Clockwork
I see more narcissist than gay in that TMZ video.
Blah, bla..huh?
@the other Greg: Look up Dominionism. It’s been in the works for decades. African takeover is their endgame. It’s supposed to be just before the apocalypse, or whatever psychotic Christians call it these days. “end of days”? Something like that. The fact that it utilizes mind control techniques with mass propaganda proves it’s straight from Jesus’ NSA mind link, or something like that. It’s really crazy, but then the conservatard “lifestyle” always has been, you’ve just been trained not to notice.
carly
Now do people understand what staying in the closet can do to someone?
Macmantoo
I’ve got to say in watching the “up close” version on TZM, he really acts like a nelly queen. His mannerism is more gay than most I know.
GABRIEL
@facepalm and @the real mike in ashville … Thanks for your replies, I’m glad to see that some do mantain posture discussing a matter like this one instead of just insulting.
Both of your arguments are very interesting and I will look into the information you talked about.
I could be defending Jason Russell in some level merely because of his cause,but I’m certainly not excusing his behaviour even though it is something that is regularly seen particularly around people who are drinking, I am nonetheless bothered by how people are so vicious on attacking someone that clearly belongs to our community whether he admits to it or not and at least did enough to let the world know about KONY, I just don’t think this incident should divert the attention on stopping KONY.
Now it would be really sad and disgusting of him to use this situation to gain fame and money, especially after all the trips he has made to Uganda and all the horrible sights he has seen.
If the money for this campaign is not used to help the needy then I would be the first one to go against it.
It is very screwed up how politics, religion and personal interets messes causes like this one up when it could really help victims of such beastly actions.
I do want this campaign to have a very positive impact on people all over the world and get those poor children out of this situation, but maybe it’s just wishful thinking, maybe not.
Only time will tell I guess.
GABRIEL
PS: I just watched the TMZ video where he is seen naked on the streets going mad.
…..WOW! I did not see this one coming.
Shannon1981
up close video on TMZ.com
http://www.tmz.com/2012/03/18/jason-russell-video-naked-meltdown-kony/2/#comments-anchor
Shannon1981
@FunMe: oh yeah! Didn’t see your post before I posted. This is what repressing homosexual urges does, people. Also, if you are bipolar, get help. Last lesson: Meth. Not even once. There, I think I covered all the possibilities for his curious behavior.
CBRad
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWACLKaOC08&feature=player_embedded This is the video even more embarrassing than the naked show. What a (gay) ego this guy has !
Shannon1981
@CBRad: He dances like that in public and expects folks to believe he’s straight?
CBRad
@Shannon1981: It does seem like such arrogant denial, doesn’t it ?
indi.anna
https://www.change.org/petitions/tell-queerty-to-stop-transphobic-reporting-now
Shannon1981
@CBRad: Definitely. Dude, anyone, gay or not, can see this dude is an evangelical closet case.
Shannon1981
@indi.anna: I appreciate what you are doing, and agree with the sentiment behind it. I, for one, as a genderqueer, African American female bodied human, would LOVE IT if Queerty had something other than white gay men on their staff. However, this is not the case, and, I think it is prevalent to anyone in this community that some letters in our acronym do not full understand some of the others. The answer is not to attack the writers here, but to educate on just what it is that you as a trans person find lacking or offensive. I am not excusing it, I am just saying I disagree with your message here.
Also, again, this is a snark blog. If you honestly hold it to the standard that you would say…the NY Times or even a less bitchy gay magazine like The Advocate…well your expectations are too high.
Color me the bitchy queer that I am, but Queerty’s no holds barred, snarky attitude is what keeps me coming back. If they cleaned it up, I’d probably find it boring.
GABRIEL
I just did a whole lot of research and may I just say …to all the writers here at Queerty Magazine and everyone who is against Jason Russell: My sincere apologies these guys are real DOUCHEBAGS!
taking advantage of such a horrible situation to push their antigay agenda using a gay man who rejects his own kind as their image it’s just plain macabre and sick.
I never imagined somebody as feminine as Jason Russell would be against the gay community and be part of such groups, in fact it’s just plain ironic to me how the situation is playing out and if he thinks he can pull the straight façade he is sadly mistaken because he is gayer than the sunshine on a beautiful spring morning, which is something he should be proud of.
I feel so stupid for falling for a propaganda like this one without digging more into it, but just watching jacob cry in that video and saying what he said,looking at all those kids just so afraid for their lives, just broke my heart into a million pieces.
We should still stop KONY and at the same time make all those religious organizations and jason russell himself suck it until it bleeds glitter!
CBRad
@GABRIEL: Live and learn. You’re a good person for caring about others. Just have to be careful : there will always be people out there willing to take advantage of those who want to help. All charities, etc., should be checked out carefully before you give. It’s a shame, because it makes it more complicated, to be that suspicious, but…we have to be.
Shannon1981
@GABRIEL: It’s awesome that you care enough to try to help. A rule of thumb for me: research before getting involved. Anything you find tied to evangelicals, or religion in general should be a no go. 99.9% of the time, anything tied to churches is a front, and a way to promote a religious agenda, often a virulently anti-gay one.
FunMe
I really do think it’s being in the closet. It is SAD. Check this analysis that seems to make more and more sense:
http://scallywagandvagabond.com/2012/03/source-jason-russell-broke-down-cause-hes-closet-gay/
But according to one source close to the inner circle we received the following statement:
ââŚ..meaning one of the board members is so in denial they all are standing by the dehydration & stress storyâŚ. she actually suggested it was âsickâ for saying it could be anything more⌠i told her out of compassion that if they continue to treat him with gatoraid lol & prayer hes likely to end up in a bad situation⌠as in he needs mental health care & or drug intervention because lets fact it that was no act of dehydration malnutrition and stress⌠i was diagnosed when i came back from xxxxxx dehydrated & mal nurished i had enlarged liver because of this & my mind was in no way altered like his was in the video⌠i honestly believe hes closet gay & its that secret thats eating him up & i truly fear for his life⌠mental or drugs whatever mixed with that kind of inner turmoil is a recipe for suicide or other harmful behavior.â
And our source goes on to say the following:
Jason CANâT be gay as he was raised by parents who ran a Christian theater group and has spoken before Rev. Jerry Falwellâs Liberty University (see you tube link below) along with Alex Harris who along with his twin brother Brett supposedly convinced Chuck Norris to become a big Mike Huckabee supporter in the 2008 Republican primaries. BTW, Harris attends Patrick Henry College, a relatively new âchristianâ college whose main purpose is for training the christian right to take over our government, helping the USA to become an evangelical theocracy.”
Poor guy … guess it’s best to “come out, come out … where ever you are” It would really help him in more ways than one!
Chuck
My gaydar, off the charts with this guy.
uglydude
@FunMe: In the mid 90s I spent a lot of time around Jason and his clannish inner circle of closeted bible beaters. My ex girlfriend was childhood friends with his wife Danica. To me, Jason and Danica seemed like giddy bffs. Don’t feel sorry for his wife, who was well aware that everyone thought Jason was gay. Believe me, he’s toning it down for the cameras. He is crazy flaming! Not even questionable.
GABRIEL
@CBRad the video you showed us of Jason Russell dancing in such a ridicule manner just angers me more about falling for this crack-head repressed excuse of a human being’s propaganda.
It was all about getting money and fame.
what a heartless bastard, to use other people’s suffering to make profit for a religious agenda just makes me even more proud to be an atheist.
It seems religious organizations will stop at nothing to gain power and resources, no matter how many people they use and destroy, I’m not surprised though, it has been like this for thousands of years.
Religion is the root of all evil and the mother of prejudice and now it is more clear than ever.
Thank you so much for pulling people out this confusing wheel of lies Jason Russell along with the other religious scumbags have created.
Dr. Dick
@QJ201: LOLZ
AEH
@lickety splitz: Your lack of compassion for fellow human beings disgust me.
FunMe
@uglydude: wow, doesn’t surprise me. When I was working in the “Orange Curtain” one of my coworkers was this woman who was kinda “valley girl” type. She was sharing how she met her “fiancee” in her “youth group” at church or some evangelical group. It was SO OBVIOUS to us her coworkers that her guy was gay and in the closet. But the pressure was so high to be married to a “Christian” despite living a lie.
Thanks for sharing your story!
Richard
@Surita: I agree Surita, He is cute and I let him jizz all over my mouth too.
Richard
I’d so eat his jizz!!
Kevin in Cincy
@CBRad: OH DEAR. I just watched that link. I’m speechless. Definitely something more to that boy than “humanitarianism”… đ
venice
This is just so sad. He has been working to end Kony’s terror and child abduction, but stupid lazy people that sit on their dead butts and do nothing but put others down because they are Christians, doing something to better humanity etc. He has had a breakdown and instead of having respect for what he has tried to achieve, and is now going through people are saying he is, a drug addict, alcoholic, gay, thief etc. they have lied about what he did when he was on the street before he was taken to the hosp. Expecting a person that might have a mental break some day, to keep from having one by eating or taking something before they have a break is like me telling you to take a pill or eat something because you might get in a car crash and be killed today. It makes me so damn mad that people don’t have any respect for others going through something like this. IF YOU WERE NOT THERE IN PERSON AND YOU DON’T HAVE ALL THE TRUE FACTS ~ SHUT YOUR STUPID FAT MOUTH!!!!! and …….. “JUDGE NOT LEST YE BE JUDGED” He and his family will suffer because people put this out for all to see. It breaks my heart how we treat each other. If Jesus came here today, they would crucify him all over again.
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@venice: “IF YOU WERE NOT THERE IN PERSON AND YOU DONâT HAVE ALL THE TRUE FACTS ~ SHUT YOUR STUPID FAT MOUTH!!!!! and âŚâŚ.. âJUDGE NOT LEST YE BE JUDGED”.
that would be great if you followed your own beliefs at least once. But then you can’t, since you’re a shallow and sparkly, hello-kitty decal false advertisement of the human condition, an American Christian. This is why your post provides the exact reason why this fascist nightmare of a “man” and everyone like him should be talked about relentlessly, forever. You’re a cautionary tale, like Humpty Dumpty; and your contradictions scream to be corrected, just like our friend Jason. Why don’t you just throw your Martin Ssempa lecture on the old iPod, and zone out like you and your kind are only capable of? you know, get a nice hate-on and diddle some kids down at the bible study? Maybe call an impromptu Klan rally? You know, something more your speed.