|
Gay ex-governor turns to God
03/05/2007 22:21 - (SA)
|
|
|
 |
|
| Former New Jersey governor James McGreevey sits in court, during a divorce hearing against his estranged wife, Dina Matos McGreevey. He was raised as a Roman Catholic. (Mike Derer, Pool, AP) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
New York - The former governor of New Jersey, who resigned in 2004 after admitting to an adulterous relationship with another man, now wants to become a priest, said the seminary he is entering on Thursday.
Jim McGreevey, a lapsed Catholic who is locked in divorce proceedings with his wife, plans to enter the General Theological Seminary of the Episcopal Church in New York City later this year.
Bruce Parker, the seminary's director of communications, said McGreevey would be starting a three-year master of divinity programme in September.
"We look forward to welcoming him," he added.
An unnamed friend of McGreevey's was quoted by the New York Post as saying the former governor had been considering the move for some time.
"He's been thinking about this heavily for the past two years. It's not something that he takes lightly. Despite what some people think, he's a very spiritual person," the paper reported.
First openly gay governor
The details of McGreevey's failed marriage have proved frequent fodder for the US tabloid press.
Last year, the former governor wrote that he only married his wife to advance his political career and has said that she knew he was gay.
But, just recently, his wife, Dina Matos McGreevey, countered that she would never have married him if she knew he was homosexual, and that she still didn't believe that he was gay, but bisexual.
McGreevey, who became the United States' first openly gay governor after coming out while still in office, has been attending services at an Episcopal church in Manhattan for the past two years with his Australian boyfriend, Mark O'Donnell.
|
