Hot topic: Rosie once lived with a....MAN!
I should know better than to watch "The View" without a notepad nearby. So I'm checking out the hot topics portion of the show and suddenly the conversation turns to Ted Haggard miraculously being cured of his gay urges or whatever. So I start taking notes on a Chinese takeout menu.
The discussion progresses and Rosie tells Barbra, Joy and Elizabeth that she believes that sexuality is on a spectrum and that very few people are 100 percent homosexual or 100 percent heterosexual. Rosie then shared that when she was in her late 20s, she had a heterosexual relationship lived with a man who she lived with for two years. She recalled how fun it was to do simple things like go to the grocery store and be able to tell the checker that she was buying food for a party she and her boyfriend were having. But after awhile Rosie says "I realized it wasn't really for me. I think most people are on a continuim."
When discussing the Haggard transformation, Rosie said: "I don't think you can pray gay away. I haven't been able to in my 44 years!"
Barbara Walters was incredulous over Haggard's claim: "He went for a whole three weeks for treatment..and Jesus put him back together again." Walters then wondered if the treatment was similar to when parents are trying to prevent their kids from smoking so they let them smoke all they want until they are sick of it, or drink all they want until they don't want to drink any more.
"I want to know WHAT they did in those three weeks," Barbara said, getting a big laugh. Ever the class act, she added: "We wish him well."
Joy Behar, bless her heart, had a few things to say on the topic. She confessed that she had never had a lesbian encounter since playing doctor when she was five with a girl named Daisy: "I was the doctor," she said. Behar added this anecdote: "I know a guy who once said, 'I'm bisexual. I like gay men and straight men!'"
As the discussion wrapped up, Rosie pointed out that the reason so many people feel the pressure to hide is because of preachers like Haggard while Joy points out that families also need to be more open and supportive: "The parents need to ask the child, 'Listen, are you gay?' ...If you have the impulse, you should follow your heart - that's why the priesthood is such a mess right now."
Added Rosie: "We're all human and we're all capable of loving each and the body parts are irrelevant."



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