The linked blog post from Joe.My.God is about a California GOP senator who was arrested for DUI after leaving a Sacramento gay bar with another guy in his car. Of course, he issued a statement:
I am deeply sorry for my actions and offer no excuse for my poor judgment. I accept complete responsibility for my conduct and am prepared to accept the consequences for what I did. I am also truly sorry for the impact this incident will have on those who support and trust me – my family, my constituents, my friends, and my colleagues in the Senate.
But I think there is a bigger story here. Here is a well known political figure who is seen in a gay bar, and leaves with another man. Most of the news stories on this do not even mention this detail, and now that we are 2 days from it, there still are few details surfacing. The Querty blog labels him as a “patron” of Faces, the gay night club. Do that mean he was known to be there often? Was this his first time in a gay bar?
Comments on Joe.My.God and others are filled with some of the expected stuff. People who call Asburn a hypocrit and clearly take some pleasure out of the fact that he is now getting some grief after causing so much to many of us, but why is it just an expressed sentiment? Why is the man who was with him, unidentified? If he was known at that club, why wasn’t he outed before this?
I think anyone has the right to self-disclosure, and if they choose to stay in the closet, that is their right, until- they start to vote and work against LGBT rights. Â When that happens, they lose their right to self-disclosure! The rest of the anti-gay opponents do everything they can to harm us and our civil rights movement, and it is time we start fighting back and stop turning a blind eye to hypocrisy.
In any state where we are working for greater equality, members of our community must help in that cause, but shining a light on people like this!
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2010/03/anti-gay-gop-ca-state-sen-roy-asburn.html