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James McGreevey

James Edward McGreevey (born August 6, 1957) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party, who served as the 52nd Governor of New Jersey from 2002 until his resignation in 2004. He was also a seminarian. He served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1990 to 1992, as the Mayor of Woodbridge Township from 1991 to 2002 and in the New Jersey Senate from 1994 to 1998. He was the Democratic nominee for Governor of New Jersey in 1997 but was narrowly defeated by Republican incumbent Christine Todd Whitman. He ran again in 2001 and was elected by a large margin.

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Because of an adulterous affair I shall leave office in November.

Adulterous, Affair, November, Office

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.

Ambivalent, Children, Confused, Felt, Who I Am, Young

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.

Believe, Sake, Torture, Work, Greater

Civil union is less than marriage. Marriage is a sacred and valued institution and ought to be afforded equal protection.

Equal, Institution, Marriage, Protection, Sacred, Unions

My truth is that I am a gay American.

Gay, Truth Is, My Truth, Truth, American

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.

Impact, Needs, Purpose, Life, Thing, Sake

I'm grateful for my brokenness. I'm grateful for my humility.

Grateful, Humility, Brokenness

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.

Decide, Mirror, Mirrors, Soul, Unique, World

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.

Eye, Gay, Editors, Searching

I am resigning because my secret leaves the governor's office vulnerable.

Leaves, Office, Secret, Vulnerable

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.

Children, Kids, Shoes, Recall, Worked, Perfect

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.

Closets, Corroded, Honest, Loved, Loved Ones, Relationship

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.

Firsts, Governor, Guess, Leading, Public Opinion, Running

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.

Change, Christian, Church, Passion, Realized, Using

Firefighters, police officers and state troopers place themselves in harm's way every day, every week, every year.

Firefighter, Place, Police, Way, Year, Years

I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry.

America, Board, Faith, Fighting, Group, Religious

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.

Came, Different, Integrated, Life Living, Parts, Places

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.

Decision, Decisions, Egos, Godly, Mean

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.

Different, Grappled, Ideas, Law, Quite, School

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.

Fundamentals, Gay, Part, Running, Thing

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