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On how he tricked his girlfriend and wife into believing he was straight and how he felt guilty about his sexuality:
In his teenage years, Richard tended to indulge his own sexual appetites with gusto, then condemn his behavior as satanic. In recent years, he has developed a more liberal view of homosexuality. “I’ve been gay all my life and I know God is a God of love, not of hate,” he told Penthouse in 1995. “How can I [put] down the fisherman when I’ve been fishing all my life?” He adds that Lee Angel (a girlfriend), and Ernestine Campbell, a Bible student who was married to him between 1959 and 1961, didn’t see he was gay because “they just thought of me as a pumper [fan of masturbation]. I was pumping so much…

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