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A small-town Alabama pastor and mayor killed himself Friday, days after a local conservative news website published a story that included photos of him wearing women’s clothing and makeup.

F.L. “Bubba” Copeland, who was the mayor of Smiths Station and the pastor at First Baptist Church in Phenix City, shot himself in front of police during a welfare check, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office said.

Copeland’s private life was exposed Wednesday by the conservative blog 1819 News, which was once owned by the right-wing Alabama Policy Institute and whose top editor is a former Breitbart News contributor.

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[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

The cognitive dissonance from being a transitioning person and a Republican politician at the same time must be agonizing.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 85 points 1 year ago

Crossdressing isn't transexuality by itself.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

I wish more people understood this. Seems like so many are simply incapable of accepting any nuance anymore. Everything is binary. This or That. With me or against me.

[-] meco03211@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

You mean I could wear clothing ostensibly for women and I wouldn't need to immediately identify as a woman and become gay? Well fuck. Wasted my whole life on all this man stuff.

[-] BassaForte@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yes. I was born a male but am medically transitioning to be more fem but I identify as non-binary.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

True, but the article did indicate that they were posting as a trans woman. Maybe she’s trans, maybe he’s a cis crossdresser, either way what did they expect.

[-] Beaupedia@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The person in question self described as transgender. It wasn't a guess.

[-] insomniac_lemon@kbin.social 19 points 1 year ago

Also religious in the deep south AND a pastor. He must've been seeing Green-Goblin hallucinations but with Kenneth Copeland instead of Willem Dafoe.

[-] ZooGuru@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Stop it. That’s terrifying.

[-] Fapper_McFapper@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The only good thing about Kenneth Copeland is the he looks like he’s got two feet and three hands in the grave already.

[-] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

If you read the original article (the one that prompted his suicide), the guy explicitly said that he didn't feel female. He was just a crossdresser.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The problem with people is that some are idiots. Regardless of what group you’re in you’ve got some really stupid assholes. Or as their fellow republicans will see them: useful idiots

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