New Jersey Governor Resigns Over Affair

TRENTON, N.J (Reuters) - New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey, who earlier this year said he opposed gay marriage, announced on Thursday he would resign and admitted having a homosexual affair

"Shamefully, I engaged in adult consensual affairs with another man, which violates my bonds of matrimony," the married father of two said. "It was wrong, it was foolish, it was inexcusable."

Spare me, please! It's nobody's damned business who he had sex with and falling off the monogamy bandwagon is no reason to resign from office. That's his own private business and it's totally ludicrous for him to be announcing this to the world in a news conference.

McGreevey said that he'd been conflicted about his sexual orientation since childhood. Apparently, he tried to deny his true sexual orientation by entering into a conventional marriage and living a lie for years. What is shameful and inexcusable is the fact that he felt that he had to deny his true self all these years until he was backed into a wall and couldn't deny it any longer. His opposition to gay marriage is further indicative of his extreme attempts at denial.

Up until very recently, gays and lesbians have been expected to bury that integral part of themselves in order to be respected members of society. Those who are nonmonogamous, straight and gay, are still expected to do so, despite growing evidence that sexual preference is inborn and that human beings are not naturally monogamous. Perhaps it will be easier to maintain one's integrity when people are no longer expected to repress their basic natures by desperately trying to swim upstream while pretending Cinderella's shoe will fit nicely on every foot.