Posted on 03/09/2006 2:06:41 PM PST by nickcarraway
One hour into "Brokeback Mountain," Amy Jo Remmele began to cry, and not just for the woman on-screen, standing in a doorway in Riverton, Wyo., watching her husband embrace a man.
"When I saw that look in her eyes, I thought, 'Oh, yeah.' Even though I never saw my husband with another man, I knew exactly how that woman would have felt," said Mrs. Remmele, a respiratory therapist in rural Minnesota.
On June 1, 2000, Mrs. Remmele, then 31, discovered her husband's profile on the Web site gay.com. The couple stayed up all that night weeping and talking. Soon afterward, 10 days before she gave birth to her second child, Mrs. Remmele's husband went off to spend a couple of nights with his new boyfriend. "I tried to talk him out of it, and he left anyway," Mrs. Remmele said. "I was devastated." Three months later the couple divorced.
Mrs. Remmele now married to a farmer who raises cattle, corn and soybeans is one of an estimated 1.7 million to 3.4 million American women who once were or are now married to men who have sex with men.
The estimate derives from "The Social Organization of Sexuality," a 1990 study, that found that 3.9 percent of American men who had ever been married had had sex with men in the previous five years. The lead author, Edward O. Laumann, a sociologist at the University of Chicago, estimated that 2 to 4 percent of ever-married American women had knowingly or unknowingly been in what are now called mixed-orientation marriages.
Such marriages are not just artifacts of the closeted 1950's. In the 16th century, Queen Anne of Denmark had eight children with King James I of England, known not only for the King James Bible, but also for his devotion
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
'man' up.
Do you think that is accurate or possible for such?
Posted on 09/30/2003 4:13:38 PM PDT by doug from upland
Arianna rings like a bell through the night...well, actually it's screaching
She is a loud mouth and hypocrite...we're tired of her preaching
Irritating, that she is...like Streisand, Hillary or Cuomo
We feel sorry for her poor ex-husband, 'cause she turned him homo
Davis and his RATS will be gone but she is out to spoil it
Hey, Arnold, relive your movie scene...stuff her head in the toilet
Irritating, that she is...like Streisand, Hillary or Cuomo
We feel sorry for her poor ex-husband, 'cause she turned him homo
She had turned him homo
Arianna...Arianna...Arianna...Arianna
Where she has no business, she thinks there's something she must settle
Give her the chance and your SUV will soon become scrap metal
Irritating, that she is...like Streisand, Hillary or Cuomo
We feel sorry for her poor ex-husband, 'cause she turned him homo
She had turned him homo
Arianna...Arianna...Arianna
She's worse than hemorrhoids really burning
She's worse than hemorrhoids really burning
She's worse than hemorrhoids really burning
I've noticed that also. I loved my best friend but was in NO WAY sexually attracted to her. But she was probably the person I was closest to (other than my hubby). I say "was" because she died suddenly at age 36.
Why shoot him?Then mommy goes to jail for twenty years and the kid grows up without a mother OR father.
I can't believe this woman didn't notice signs that her husband was gay.She probably did but was in deep denial.
"I don't even know where to begin" ping.
I don't believe those numbers for a second....
No way, no how.
I don't either. It is kind of like those who say that 50% of all marriages end in divorce because there are 2 million marriages in one year and 1 million divorces. What about the other 54 million marriages going on at the same time? I come up with about a 1.7857% divorce rate.
What is the agenda of the statistic?
You are an EVIL genius.
Yup, common, they had to go back 6 years to find a Montana (what no Wyoming) housewife. Reminds me of all the stories during the Clinton years on how lying was actually a good thing.
Let me know how it went.
Who's to know for sure....But I'd guess that's what the N.Y. Times has in their data base...along with 10 - 12% of the population is gay.
The author not only manages to present phony stats and twist the facts to somehow make homosexuality something we should sympathize with, King James is simultaneously slandered with false accusations which have been debunked many times. The king had enemies, and some did not want him to publish an English Bible. He was not a homosexual, and there is no historical evidence to support it. Only someone who wants to believe such things as this think it must be true.
I can't bring myself to click "nytimes". Tell us what King James was supposedly devoted to? So he's another dead homosexual?
That's one of the funniest things I've read for a long time!! ROTFLOL!
Maybe that's where my brain's been hiding out all this time. I'll have to check.
Funny that this is in the Health section of that paper...
That b@tch would make me gay AND blind.
A steaming pile from the NYT; file under "know thine enemy and his lying so-called arguments".
Or, as we say around here, "I'd kill myself with my own fist".
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