MATT SANCHEZ, THE RELIGIOUS RIGHT'S NEW MARY MAGDALENE

It is no surprise that some within the religious Right have embraced former gay escort and porn actor Matt Sanchez.

The notion that Sanchez has seen the light and turned his back on the evils of homosexuality allows people like Kevin McCullough (left) to propagate the false notion that homosexuality is both a choice and a destructive lifestyle – not unlike alcoholism or drug abuse – that can be cured with prayer and a group hug. Let's face it, the ex-gay industry is a multi-million dollar enterprise for the religious Right. It allows people like James Dobson, Kevin McCullough and the rest of the modern-day Pharisees to live the lifestyle that Jesus actually did condemn.

Scandals like Ted Haggard and Matt Sanchez allow people like McCullough, who have bet their economic futures on combating homosexuality, to paint all homosexuals with the same broad brush: all homosexuals are engaged in a destructive lifestyle, just one step away from prostituting themselves and acting in dozens of gay porn videos like Sanchez.   

Like Ted Haggard, the only thing gay prostitutes and their clients have to do to be accepted (back) into the fold is blame their deception and destructive lifestyle on "diabolical liberals." God doesn’t care about the origin of the sin. Kevin McCullough, James Dobson, et al do. It doesn’t matter if men like Haggard sought out men like Sanchez to perpetrate their fraud. Nor does it matter that millions of gay men have never done anything even remotely as destructive as Haggard and Sanchez.    

Kevin McCullough doesn’t care if Sanchez was accepting money from closeted, probably God-fearing, married men or that he is still advertising for sex on gay websites in the present – as long as he blames liberals. In turn, Sanchez is more than happy to give people like McCullough what they want – just like he gave hundreds of pay-for-sex clients and video customers what they wanted.

Make no mistake, Sanchez is still prostituting himself. The only difference is Kevin McCullough is now his pimp.