This is disturbing to watch. Why is he doing this? What's wrong with him?

I'm not Christian, but I am Episcopalian. Do I qualify?

So there are jobs for Paultards!

Great! My group, Prayer Circle Orgies, has been looking for funding. Our motto: Wear your silver ring on your thing.

Gay Christians = Jewish Nazis

Christian philosophy? So much for his alleged Objectivist leanings... No two philosophies can be further apart than these two...

Dominionists would spend this money well. We would use it to jump start our volunteer vicious border dog program. More on something substantively long term, I have some ideas on selective breeding....of vicious border dogs, of course.

@ReversePundit: Have you ever heard of Calvinism?

Thank God someone's going to address the dearth of wealthy people plowing money into conservative causes. Anything that propagates a system where the "Robertson George Morrow the Thirds" of the world control the pursestrings of power certainly reflects the kind of outside-the-box thinking one admires in a top VC.

What was it the bellhop said when the guy checking into the penthouse told him to go find him a $1000 hooker?

"Here I am, sir."

Seriously...what is it with these hedgies and their "life extension research"? By all accounts, newly-minted billionaire David Shaw has effectively become a mad scientist. Also: Nothing is less hot than a gay Christian.

now now now....Carnegie and Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, not exactly hotbeds of right-wing thuggery. Provided these guys leave enuf to endow the foundation in perpeuity, they always turn hippie.

well that's going to be a nice chunk of change headed towards the discovery institute.

I'm sensing some kind of self-loathing in the air here. Freud would have a field day. Now, all I need to have my Thiel swoon-balloon punctured is if you told me that he had a below average hoo-hah.

I guess we're going to have to go on a surreptitious phonecam rampage at David Barton or something.

This is either guilt-induced (and WHAT does he feel guilty about, hmmm?) or an attmept to buy off criticism from the right wing. Probably hired a consultant to tell him the exact amount of fat to rub on the right wing's lips.

@lawyergay:
Wasn't David Shaw a mad computer scientist and bio guy before the hedge fund thing? I think he pursued hedge funds because he realized he could make a gillion dollars. Last I heard he was looking to cure cancer, or something.

anyone who takes this job is officially the biggest tool in the world

Is that Kosher in an HR way?

It's a shame he had to add "life extension." I would hope all those other things would die out. Soon.

This story is TOTAL B.S. !
What is it with Valleywag always trying to paint Peter as this FAR right-wing hypocritical lunatic?
BTW: Last time I checked it's not illegal to be a Gay Christian. I love it how it's quoted as "a specific strain of Christian philosophy."
Sometimes you guys can be sooooo misleading/wrong.
Get a clue.

I'll convert!

@willontech.com: Paint? I think you've confused Valleywag with someone who's not Tom Sawyer.