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My truth is that I am a gay American.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Gay
My Truth
Truth Is
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I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Men
Adults
Affair
Another Man
Engaged
Adult
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I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Thankful
Brokenness
Grateful
Humility
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Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Affair
November
Office
Shall
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I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Office
Resigning
Secret
Vulnerable
Governor
Leaves
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I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
America
Fighting
Religious
Board
Designed
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Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Firefighter
Police
Years
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Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Equal
Equal Protection
Ought
Protection
Sacred
Unions
Afforded
Civil
Valued
Institution
Union
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I'm enjoying prison ministry, particularly with the women in Hudson County Jail who have suffered tremendously in their lives.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
County
Jail
Ministry
Prison
Suffered
Enjoying
Hudson
Tremendously
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I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Journey
Saint Patrick's Day
Abundance
Be Grateful
Blessing
Each Day
Grateful
Relish
Try
Blessings
Day
Gift
Each
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I have two extraordinary daughters, who, I can say proudly, are doing very well in school and in piano. Daughters are a father's joy.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Daughter
Extraordinary
Father
Joy
Mother
Daughters
Proudly
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No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Catholic
Damnation
Forthcoming
Homosexuality
Practice
Relief
Sin
Mortal
Subject
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I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
All Things
Believe
Greater Good
Sake
Torture
God Work Good
Enables
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Being gay is a fundamental part of my being - the core of who I've always been, and the thing that I had repressed and run from all my life.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Running
Fundamentals
Gay
Repressed
All My Life
Life Gay My Life
Fundamental
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For me, living in the closet corroded my ability to have an honest, open relationship with my God, my loved ones, my constituency and myself.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Closets
Honest
Loved Ones
God Relationship Myself
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Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself; in fact, confused.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Children
Confused
Who I Am
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Throughout my life, I have grappled with my own identity, who I am. As a young child, I often felt ambivalent about myself, in fact, confused.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Ambivalent
Confused
Identity
Life Myself I Am
Throughout
Young Child
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When you're a young kid and you're gay, you're out there on your own. And you're trying to figure this thing out. And your parents typically aren't gay.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Young Kid
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I was convinced I was worth less than my straight peers. I was at best inauthentic, and the longer I went without amending that dishonesty, the more ashamed I felt.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Ashamed
Dishonesty
Peers
Amending
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The history of America is to expand civil liberties in a responsible and civil manner. We need to remember that our wonderful Democracy with its freedoms has been working.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Civil Liberties
Civil
Expand
Liberties
Manner
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To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Freedom
Decision
Falsity
Godly
Mean
Surrender
Decisions
Egos
Freedom Means
To Love
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At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Mirrors
Soul
Unique
Deeply
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You know for many elected officials they all started in the same place. You know marriage is between a man and a woman, but they understand that they are moving inevitably, catching up to the American public.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Catching
Elected Officials
Officials
Marriage Man Woman
American Public
Inevitably
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I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Change
Belonging
Christian
Doctrine
Helping
Helping People
Higher
Higher Power
Passion
Postmodern
Truest
Meant
People Change
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But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Running
Election
Firsts
Following
Legislature
Public Opinion
Assisted
Closet
Governor
Leading
State Legislature
Uniquely
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As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Kids
Children
Homosexuality
Public Library
Reality
Recognizing
Card
List
Local
Other Kids
Topic
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We need to have a purpose in this life. I'm pleading with you, I'm begging with you to do the right thing. And do it not for the sake of how it will impact your own lives, but only for the sake of doing the right thing.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Begging
Doing The Right Thing
Impact
Needs
Pleading
Purpose
Right Thing
Sake
Thing
Life Your Purpose
Only
Own
Doing
How
Do The Right Thing
Right
The Right Thing
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At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Grappling
Ideas
Law
Priesthood
School
Spirituality
Perhaps
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As I climbed the electoral ladder - from state assemblyman to mayor of Woodbridge and finally to governor of New Jersey - political compromises came easy to me because I'd learned how to keep a part of myself innocent of them.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Easy
Innocent
Jersey
Ladders
New Jersey
Political
Came
Climbed
Compromises
Electoral
Finally
Governor
Ladder
Learned
Mayor
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I realized that I had screwed up my life living different parts of my life in different places. I wasn't whole. I wasn't integrated. I wasn't a complete person. And after that, came out, spent some time at a psychiatric hospital.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Different
Integrated
Life Living
Psychiatric
Life Time My Life
Complete
Complete Person
Different Parts
Hospital
Parts
Realized
Screwed
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We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Anger
Government
Civility
Debate
Destruction
Dialogue
Discussion
Dogma
Losing
Replaced
Sight
Thoughtful
Views
Politics Government People
Control
Back
Between
Seat
Differing
Taking
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I've never been much for self-revelation. In two decades of public life, I always approached the limelight with extreme caution. Not that I kept my personal life off-limits; rather, the personal life I put on display was a blend of fact and fiction.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Caution
Decades
Display
Fiction
Limelight
Personal Life
Public Life
Self
Two
Life Always Never
Extreme
Blend
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The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
American History
Civil Liberties
Emancipation
Gay
Gay Rights
March
Moving
Proclamation
Thinking
Arc
Civil
Freedom History Women
Inevitably
Liberties
Lincoln
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When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Government
Calling
Citizenship
Greater
Greater Good
Idealism
Office
Our Lives
Passion
Public Office
Ran
Young
Young Man
Good Government Better
Believed
Good Government Man
First
Could
Public
Demanded
Help
Responsibilities
Service
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Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Accepted
Campaigns
Equitable
Fortunate
Identity
Political
Political Life
Pursue
Treatment
Campaign
Eager
Explain
False
Identities
Strategies
Sworn
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I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Advantage
Core
Moral
My Soul
Real World
Spiritual
Steel
Wall
Tremendous
Instincts
Further
Gave
Sexual
Protecting
Reach
The Real World
Threats
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We need to seek wise leaders who will seek common ground among Americans instead of dividing us further for political gain. As citizens, we must embrace those who embrace ideas, thoughtfulness, civility and kindness to others no matter what their political beliefs.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Kindness
Wise
Citizens
Common
Common Ground
Dividing
Embrace
Ideas
Matter
Political
Political Beliefs
Will
American
Among
Beliefs
Those
Further
Gain
Ground
Must
Instead
Leaders
Seek
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Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
American Politics
Crowded
Deny
Personal Life
Closet
Compromises
Endemic
Equally
Hoped
Strangers
Shadowy
Spent
Truths
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I knew I was different when I was about six years of age but I just knew that I wasn't like everybody else. I mean I wasn't like the other kids. I didn't know what that was. But I guess it was when I was in seventh or eighth grade, I'm like, 'Hey, something's wrong here.'
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Eighth Grade
Hey
Six
Wrong
Eighth
Everybody Else
Grade
Guess
Other Kids
Seventh
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More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Kids
Children
Concern
Regard
Shoes
Anything Else
Good Way Anything
Deliberately
Excessive
Expectation
More Than Anything
Recall
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I think - I think you have a conscience growing up in a loving family with a nurturing community. And I think what happens is, and that's part of the problem of being in the closet which is a very sick place. I mean it's self loathing. It's self denial. And you keep that separate.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Conscience
Denial
Loathing
Nurturing
Sick
Closet
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When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical gay signifier - as though, after decades in the public eye, they'd suddenly come across a trove of shots where I looked like a Cher impersonator.
James Mcgreevey / Former Governor Of New Jersey
Decades
Editors
Eye
Gay
Public Eye
Photo
Impersonator
Limp
Pictures
Searching
Stereotypical
Suddenly
Wrist
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