While former New Jersey governor, ménage-á-tois member and "jackass" James McGreevey's application to become an Episcopal minister was rejected last month, today's Times profiles a man that is determined to wear the collar. He's still living in his boyfriend's New Jersey mansion, and still "schmoozing" like a politician, but with recovering drug addicts at Newark's Integrity House.
"I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power," McGreevey said. The Episcopalian faith makes sense to him, because "the total mess of my life" was compounded by "Catholic teaching that condemns homosexual behavior as sinful." Despite his seminary degree, the Episcopal Diocese of Newark still believes that "too little time had passed" since the bad old days when McGreevey was a Catholic governor who was being blackmailed by his lover and on his way to a second divorce.
McGreevey admits in his tell-all of his addiction to "having a public," but the people and inmates he treats are quoted as saying that he is sincere, with one pounding his chest and saying McGreevey helped him "find the way to the inside…he knows the roads in there."
