Throw another religious conservative sexual hypocrite log onto the fire. This one comes to us from Montgomery, Alabama. Let’s start out with the straight take on matters.
I guess his friends are going to have a hard time explaining what was going on in Aldridge’s mind at the time he went to meet his maker. The Smoking Gun:Reverend Gary Aldridge was found dead in his home in east Montgomery. He was the senior pastor at Thorington Road Baptist Church for the last 15 years.
Gary Aldridge graduated from Liberty University and later worked for the late Jerry Falwell. A former colleague at the school remembered him as well.
“He went on to become one of the deans and the students loved him. He had a tremendous impact on them,” said Dr. Bob Miller of Liberty University.
An Alabama minister who died in June of “accidental mechanical asphyxia” was found hogtied and wearing two complete wet suits, including a face mask, diving gloves and slippers, rubberized underwear, and a head mask, according to an autopsy report.Oh my. It gets better. Blogenfreude notes that Aldridge also had a condom-covered dildo up his bum:Investigators determined that Rev. Gary Aldridge’s death was not caused by foul play and that the 51-year-old pastor of Montgomery’s Thorington Road Baptist Church was alone in his home at the time he died (while apparently in the midst of some autoerotic undertaking). While the Montgomery Advertiser, which first obtained the autopsy records, reported on Aldridge’s two wet suits, the family newspaper chose not to mention what police discovered inside the minister’s rubber briefs.
OK #1: Where did he get the dildo — after all it’s illegal to sell them in Alabama. 
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#2: The Peter needs to start an investigation on this pronto.
Conservative sexual hypocrites – the gift that keeps on giving.
Hat tip, Cliff.
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I guess Aldridge didn’t know that there’s nothing less romantic than sex with a condom!
It just gets crazier and crazier! It’s almost sad to watch.
I love the bit about “personal effects: one gold wedding ring, one dildo”.
That about says it all.
Terribly sad for his family and loved ones. He really wasn’t hurting anybody, but dayum is this just what happens when people preach one thing and play another. Had he been honest about his predilections, he might not have died because he might not have been alone (or would have felt comfortable filing a “flight plan” with the wife).
So, does the medical examiner return the wet suit and asphyxiation/bondage gear to the family?
Ms Kate
Yah, nobody really laughs at Michael Hutchence (10-year anniversary of his death is a month away, btw). They just sort of wince and go “There but for the Grace…”
How on Earth could he have done all that without help? He was hogtied six ways from Sunday, for God’s sake!
Perhaps if he’d felt he was able to explore these sexual scenarios in company, he would have had somebody to notice him turning blue and untangle him. Another point on how the closet (about either the rubber or anal penetration things) can be dangerous.
Ok, I’ll admit to being a bit naive, but…why put a condom on a dildo? I mean unless you’re a woman and you plan on putting it up your vagina after it’s been up your ass, in which case good hygiene would recommend the condom. But otherwise…?
Why put a condom on a dildo? Because unless the dildo is made out of medical grade silicone it is probably made from a porous material that will hold bacteria and be hard to sterilize.
Wow, leather fetish recon, diapers, men’s room escapades, and rubberized auto-asphyxiation, Its like watching the commuters going home in Time’s Square during the 70’s……
“Lee harvey……… you are Madmen! When you stole that cow, and your friend is trying to make with the cow……… I want party with you cowboy ….”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hyy5xZkwsMA @5:00 in
Even with sillicone, condoms just make cleanup so much easier.
Ok, I’ll admit to being a bit naive, but…why put a condom on a dildo?
Someone at Sadly, No! noted it might be a matter of comfort and lubrication. Perhaps, said he, a condom would make the hard rubber/plastic dildo a bit less rough and, well, tearing. Of course, it’s nothing at all to buy dildos these days that would be soft and gentle on the ol’ backdoor, and we don’t know what kind of dildo this cat was using. Might’ve been an old one, as I don’t know how hard it is to get a dildo in Montogomery these days.
Now, granted, I don’t know enough about the whole BDSM scene to really say, but that made sense to me. I don’t know if I’d go through that much time and effort just to bust a nut - getting into those two wetsuits has got to eat up one’s evening - but that’s just me.
Aaaand yet another GOPer goes down…
I really hate these stings, but if they are happening, better Republican lawmakers than real people.
These kinds of stories have gotten so common now that I don’t even bother reading them unless there’s meth involved.
Your ‘family values’ lesson of the week. We get a new one every week and the trend is….
Descending.
Oh, Susanna, don’t you be so glum
For I come from Alabama,
With a dildo up my bum.
Thanks, everyone!
Um.
I’m really, really sorry, oh medical examiners, but I do not see any physical way possible that he got into that predicament all by himself. Mechanics of the thing suggest strongly that he had a friend involved, and the friend bailed on him after screwing it up.
I don’t care if he was a conservative ass; this is a terrible thing, and I’m sad that someone would abandon him like that. But what an above comment pointed out is true: sounds like the kink closet killed this guy.
To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, only someone with a heart of stone could contemplate this tragedy without laughing his ass off.
togolosh! Now. song. stuck. in. my. head! Too funny.
So, what’s the deal here? So many Repubs in so little time. I know we’ve always said that the reason they hate teh gay and teh kink so much is b/c they ARE (albeit closeted) but so much proof!
Is it b/c they came so close to their theocracy? They thought they were all powerful so they could do whatever they wanted without repercussion?
How many more have to go down before the whole movement goes belly up? Or is it a Teflon Theocracy with an endless supply of True Believers and Sinners?
I had a friend back in the day who told everyone he was marrying a Catholic girl because it “makes sex dirty, the way it should be.”
At the time I thought that was a clever line with a kernel of truth.
After seeing the endless parade of twisted Repugs and their sexual obsessions, now I think I’m just disgusted…
Oh, Susanna, don’t you be so glum
For I come from Alabama,
With a dildo up my bum.
“Came IN Alabama”…
I was initially thinking condom because the dildo was being shared and someone wanted to play safe, but “safe” probably isn’t the right word here. If the evidence does suggest that someone else was around (and it does seem like houdini to manage that by yourself) then the “no foul play” determination gets a bit dicier, and you do have to wonder a little who the partner was.
I’m really, really sorry, oh medical examiners, but I do not see any physical way possible that he got into that predicament all by himself. Mechanics of the thing suggest strongly that he had a friend involved, and the friend bailed on him after screwing it up.
Assuming that the position (so to speak) that they found him in was as difficult as they say, I think you’re probably right.
And though it’s the moral equivalent of being a hit-and-run driver, if you were the secret lover of a closeted Republican politician, wouldn’t you haul ass if things went accidentally and fatally wrong? Because the cops and/or the DA isn’t going to care what actually happened and you’ll probably end up on Death Row, or at least a long prison sentence.
After seeing the endless parade of twisted Repugs and their sexual obsessions, now I think I’m just disgusted…
Now I think I’m just disgusted
Where I used to be amused
That dildo preacher’s gotten busted
Now that the angels want his neoprene suit
Butt when they told him ’bout his side of the bargain
That’s when he knew that he could not refuse
Now he’ll be first to be raptured now the angels want his neoprene suit.
The guy’s sexphobia kept him from seeking out the proper kinky people who would have taught him how to do that kind of thing correctly.
It reminds me of when fundies try to keep their kids from getting condoms and safer sex education. The people the Christian Taliban vilifies actually care more about the Christian Talibanists’ kids than the Talibanists do.
Pull off. Throw away. Then wash. Less messy in the tub or sink.
I remember staying over night at a lesbian couple’s house one time and they were like: “Need anything before bed? A dildo? A condom?” Took me forever to figure out why they might have condoms, but I eventually got it that switching on the fly is easier than stopping and washing off
OK, how long before this is a CSI episode? I’ll bet you 50 bucks it’s already in production.
So puzzling!
1. Why TWO wetsuits? Wouldn’t one be sufficient? Or is it parts of two wetsuits?
2. I need a diagram to see how on earth he got tangled, because my mind is just not grasping it.
3. Wetsuits are *hot*–you would start sweating fast. Especially with two?
This so looks like a revenge killing, or some sort of Se7en scenario, doesn’t it?
Priceless: Personal effects: One yellow metal ring intact on left ring finger, one dildo.
Uh, I guess they go together in his side of the swamp…
This is priceless, although how did he tie himself up so well?
Wouldn’t 1 tie and 1 wetsuit be enough? People will say that he was actually wearing a sauna suit.
When it rains, it pours…
It’s worse than being a hit-and-rund river, I think, because it’s such a personal betrayal of trust. It’s more like being the top climber on a rock face, and callously letting the bottom climber fall hudnreds of feet. Despite the fact that I know the dead guy was a flaming hypocrite of doom, I am still much more horrified by the actions of his partner.
I agree — the partner probably bugged out in terror of the possible repercussions. (Although since it was OBVIOUSLY a consensual situation — I doubt you could force a man into two wetsuits even if he was unconscious — if he or she had simply been honest, it would probably not have come to much jail time.) So so sad and stupid; there are so many people out there who know how to play out these kinds of kinks correctly and safely, but this poor dumb self-hating jackass took fatal risks because he couldn’t bring himself to fuck in the “wrong” company. *headshake*
As to the CSI episode: they already did this one on Law and Order, I think.
I’m trying to figure out just exactly HOW you get two wetsuits on, period.
One is more than difficult enough (from what I’ve seen). Even with help, how do you get another over the first one?…
(All of which leaves out the obvious questions: What enjoyment does he get from wearing a wetsuit? If wearing just one isn’t enough, how is wearing two better? Plus a dildo in the ass? I must be doing something wrong…)
He may have had a farmer john/zip jacket or shortie combo (basically overalls with a short-all on top).
You can also double them up by putting one inside the other and putting both on. (e.g. you have a 3 mm and a 5mm and want 8mm)
Ms Kate - you’re a swimmer so I trust your knowledge.
The only place I ever really seen/watched people put on wetsuits is at triathlons. (My daughter competed in several and we were her support staff.)
Doesn’t look easy, especially if the suit fits properly (not loose)…
“I agree — the partner probably bugged out in terror of the possible repercussions. (Although since it was OBVIOUSLY a consensual situation — I doubt you could force a man into two wetsuits even if he was unconscious — if he or she had simply been honest, it would probably not have come to much jail time.) So so sad and stupid; there are so many people out there who know how to play out these kinds of kinks correctly and safely, but this poor dumb self-hating jackass took fatal risks because he couldn’t bring himself to fuck in the “wrong” company.”
If this fits with half the other stories in a similar vein, it having been clearly consensual probably would not have saved his likely partner from charges. If anyone was with him, it was more than likely for cash, which is still, you know, ten kinds of illegal.
What enjoyment does he get from wearing a wetsuit? If wearing just one isn’t enough, how is wearing two better?
“Thicker for his enjoyment”. Perhaps he was trying for a sensory deprivation effect?
I originally tagged it as auto-aasphyxiation, but ginmar’s right - the forensic report makes it clear he was tied up way beyond what he could achieve himself. You can’t help wondering if there was some poor terrified Christian closet case fleeing the scene also clad in two wet suits, their flippers pounding along the pavement as they hope no-one will notice…
Whoops - garrity, not ginmar.
Good point about there being a second person. I have to wonder why I never think of these things.
However, I think I can contribute another thought: perhaps the fleeing person figured that the agreed-upon fee for tying him up wasn’t going to pay them enough to answer the police inquiries?
“RE: Why put a condom on a dildo?”
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Uhm, I suspect the guy had a rubber fetish that possibly could have played into such a preference. Just a hunch, given the lack of details.
Seriously, I haven’t learned so much about gay sex ever since conservatives started getting caught in the act.
But was he a Republican hypocrite on matters of sexuality?
It is so sad when latex allergies go undetected until its too late.
Y’all do know that hell is right here on earth, don’t you?
This man is not meeting St Peter one way or the other.
Wow.
Not being familiar with the ins and outs or ups and downs of gay sex it seems to me that these conservatives being outed by their own define: Peccadilloes seem to be in some very weird fringe land.
It is funny in a way. For years I have commented about how obsessed with gay sex these evangelical types were. They seemed a little too interested and weirdly knowledgeable in the subject if you ask me. I’ve had gay friends since high school (30 years ago) and not oncåry Falwell and he seems to know EXACTLY what goes on….weird.
I am assuming that this type of behavior is way out on the fringe. Just like S/M is on the fringe of straight sex.
Sad and weird and funny all at the same time.
I dunno… I’m just not feeling the schadenfreude anymore, I guess.
I guess “caught soliciting sex from an undercover cop in a bathroom” better balances “take that, hypocritical fucker” with basic human decency. It takes a fucking lot for me to think “that person needs to die.” and being a hypocrite, even a sexual hypocrite that makes other human beings utterly miserable and is one of the vast number of fucking assholes that cause countless deaths to suicide every year out of shame for being female and having sex, or being gay at all.
I’m trying to talk myself into enjoying this, I really am. but “If you weren’t so morally myopic, you wouldn’t be dead” isn’t enjoyable for me. just sad.
very, very sad.
Well, I’m certainly not trying to talk myself into enjoying it. I’ll save my schadenfreude for the next hypocritical gooper who doesn’t die from his hypocracy.
“…the ups and downs of gay sex…”
Wait, how does this man’s situation have anything to do with gay sex?
Kinky, autoeroticism - yes. Clearly.
Sexual conservative hypocrite - yes. Clearly.
Gay sex - no. Not so clear.
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And as for 2 wetsuits - y’all DO know why Astroglide was invented, right? To help people more easily slip into wetsuits.
Just putting this out there, but how exactly does this count as hypocrisy?
I’m pretty sure Jesus (or even Moses) had anything to say about rubber undies and dildos. Did this guy preach sermons against tying yourself up in a rubber scuba suit and jamming a dildo your ass or something?
“how exactly does this count as hypocrisy?”
The below,
in conjunction with the manner of his death, adequately detailed in the original post, is how this counts as hypocrisy.
Connecting the dots between “pastor,” “Liberty University,” “Jerry Falwell,” to “Moral Majority,” to “the only approved sex is married missionary-position sex with your spouse,” to “engager in non-missionary kinky sex,” to “raging hypocrite” simply is not that hard.
Res ipsa loquitur.
Hm.
The pastor definitely had strange.. interests, but I don’t know if I’d go as far as to call him a hypocrate. I’m no Christian, but I used to be, and I’ve never heard of it being a sin to masterbate. So the guy can get his jollies off on whatever he wants and as long as he’s alone, who gives a fuck? He didn’t rape, molest, or cheat anyone.
Perhaps I missed something? It just seems to me that this article is nothing more than an excuse to thumb our noses at people we don’t like.
I’m no Christian, but I used to be, and I’ve never heard of it being a sin to masterbate.
Really? The Sin of Onan? This is like the 12th commandment to a lot of Christians (11th being “though shalt not wear two wet suits with a dildo up your butt”)
Speculation is all well and good, and no doubt, unless the Republican machine gets really good at cleanup, we probably will know more.
I agree it is a lot to pull off alone, but at the same time, I’ve seen some guys get themselves into some pretty amazing situations all by themselves. The determiner would not so much be things like whether he was hogtied but whether there were knots or releases somewhere where he could get at them.
It is also, of course, perfectly possible that someone else was involved and ran out on him, but it is also possible (and even stupider if true) that he arranged for someone to put him in it and then go away to leave him alone, hopefully to return later to let him out. Horrendous protocol and violating all rules of sane BDSM, but as was mentioned, the closet often messes up things like backup plans and other sane practices. Clearly something went wrong, but it may not have been either homicide or someone running out on someone in distress. It may (may!) also be someone not coming forward after it turns out it was too late to do anything.
And sadly, if it does go to court, especially in Alabama, you know damn well that it will be all about deviancy and homicide, rather than about the failure to behave responsibly in a consensual situation.
As for the hypocrisy, the seriousness of the consequences doesn’t change that. He doesn’t get a pass because he died rather than just gettting arrested - because the hypocrisy charges against the bathroom BJ folks is not about the activity, but the condemnation and the form it takes.
IF (and I don’t know, but choose to assume) this guy made a career out of condemning others for anthing other than procreative sex within a Christian marriage, and if (and again, don’t know) he also spoke out publicly or supported those who did against alternate sexual expression (especially if this kink of his was same-sex oriented, which may not be so, dildo or no), then condemning others for doing what he was doing himself is still hypocrisy.
It’s sad that he had to be closeted about his kink, and tragic that he died, just as it is sad that the other guys were closeted and had to find sex the way they did. But if he was at the same time preaching against it, then he was a hypocrite.
this guy really needed a sexual partner!
i, too, am startled at how elaborate this sexcapade was.
Actually, there’s no conclusive evidence in this story that he’s gay. Straight people can be kinky too!
What you’re really learning about here is kinky sex, not gay sex. (Although the dildo does add some weight to the non-heterosexual side of the argument.)
The dildo doesn’t make it more gay. Condoms on dildos=easier to clean.
sure hypocrisy is funny, but this is sad and the glee is kind of ugly, people.
It reminds me of the time a college republican nemesis of mine died by drug overdose after being abandoned by his friends who were worried about their future political careers. It kind of made my point about those specific people, but really its a tragedy that shows that ideologies of repression and individualism are inherently harmful to humans. Even the humans that are so disturbed enough to promote them.
True, but coming from the fundie mindset (which seems like it can’t even conceive of a straight man doing such a thing), it would be unusual that he was not gay. But, it is possible. Maybe I’m not giving enough credit to their obsession with the anus.
Did he achieve orgasm before he expired?
Teac–
Actually, according to their website, Astroglide started out as a lubricant for rocket parts. That’s where the name came from. As you can imagine, there is a very interesting story about how the other use was discovered.
/threadjack
As for this story, that’s just sad. I’m with you all: the closet kills, and this is a prime example.
Masturbating anally with a dildo doesn’t indicate homosexual tendencies. The prostate is back there, and counts as a major erogenous zone for men.
And, when you’re using phrases like “Oh my, it gets better”, try to remember that a man is dead.
Definitely another notch on the closet door frame.
Alternate possibility for the partner!
He’s someone with pull in the area. The cover up is on, and that’s why the coroner ruled it self-inflicted.
Is it irresponsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to!
sure hypocrisy is funny, but this is sad and the glee is kind of ugly, people.
Oh, it’s not so bad as glee. I suspect people are feeling a kind of grim amusement mixed with callousness.
However, I think I can contribute another thought: perhaps the fleeing person figured that the agreed-upon fee for tying him up wasn’t going to pay them enough to answer the police inquiries?
Now, now. Can’t a guy be found dead with two wet suits on and a dildo up his butt WITHOUT moonbats assuming the worst…?
“Instant Kharma’s going to get ya….”
And, when you’re using phrases like “Oh my, it gets better”, try to remember that a man is dead.
“a politician is an ass upon which eveyone has sat except a man.” - e. e. cummings
Yes, it’s somewhat sad that even a Republican is able to achieve what all human beings are capable of - dying - but at least he had the courtesy to expire in a way that is undeniably amusing.
And yet, it’s so much better when they not only survive but live to rationalize the situation! Yes, but there was an image of Jesus! in the wetsuit and I was just trying to see it a different way! I just jumped in it to get out of the rain and escape scary black men!
Asphyxiation by closet is just closed-end sad.
I guess for me the fact that if you visit the church’s web site its almost like he never existed. That’s what makes it “fun” for me. Also if anyone has the full text to the interview given to the Montgomery paper by his ‘hunting & fishing buddy whom he traveled the world with” that would be interesting. This friend talkds of how a really sweet time was when they baptised 42 people in nepal together.
so if anyone can get this…
it would be instructive… 
Thanks!
I’m laughing, and not the least bit ashamed. Men like him make their fortunes ridiculing homosexuals and other ‘deviants’, often creating the atmosphere which has led to a disordinant number of suicides among gay teenagers. I didn’t kill him; I didn’t even stand in a church and say that he was going to hell. He has earned my derision, and I pay it freely.
My only regret is that, since he is dead, that he won’t get a chance to hear me laugh.
This promotion from his church’s web site is the icing on the cake. The men’s group must meet at a leather bar.
http://www.thoringtonroadbaptist.org/mensbiblestudy07.htm
Thanks Elvis, great link.
Oh ho ho ho ho, that actually sounds like fun except for the part where he DIED. Ooops.
…and wait a minute, if his hands were tied /behind his back/, AND his ankles were tied to them, then SOMEBODY ELSE tied him up! His wife? Or is somebody else due to fall out of the crowded Republican closet?
…and a note to the officer who wrote the report, shouldn’t the dildo be in his /rectum/, as the anus is only the opening?
We seem to learn more about our dirty little selves from the actions of a few political/religious authority figures than anywhere else. So much of our freaky side is secret or fictionalized in media to the point of absurdity, but actually getting caught and humiliated by the national media makes the lesson stick. We are a strange thing.