I am thinking it’s too easy a hit for Dan. I mean, come on, if he followed all the hypocritical sex news, he’d have new material every week, but geez. Hardly surprising or useful. 
I haven’t quite figured out just what day his column comes out. Mondays, Or Tuesdays? I just hit The Stranger a couple times a week and eventually there’s a new column there.
:eek::eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
Huh. You know, in a way, I have to respect him for coming out and saying it, rather than blaming the demon liquor and going to counseling like Ted Haggard.
But how horribly, horribly sad his life must be.
Honest and truly? I don’t respect him. If this happened without him being caught, then yes, he gets my respect, but he only comes out of the closet when he’s caught at a gay bar. (I wondered why none of the gay people there seemed to wonder why a rabid anti-gay was in “their” bar - I thought it would ahve been the same kind of reaction if the fox showed up in the henhouse. He must have been there several times before and everyone in there knew he was gay.)
Personally, I feel for his wife and kids.
That is impressive that he admitted it. Maybe he’ll stop using legal power to hate on gays, right about the same time he never gets elected to anything ever again.
I guess they feel it’s not their place to out someone, even if the person to be outed is a gay politician voting against gay causes.
And right after he said that on KERN, the same radio station where he had a weekly program, removed all references to him and canceled his show. So, he probably is quite serious about “voting to reflect his constituency.”
I’m pretty sure there is a reason he is divorced.
You have it, precisely. Sadly, I don’t have a cite to hand - I recall reading something about a anti-gay-marriage conservative talking about how if society allowed gay sex to be considered normal, men would never procreate because gay sex would be so much more attractive to them.
Ah, missed that. For how long? I wonder if his wife was another of those that “knew but didn’t say anything”. (I wonder if there’ll be any fallout with Mayor Cabaldon?)
Oh, would that it were so. If I could at all be turned on by gay sex, I would so be there. Men are so much lower maintenance, and sluttier.
I doubt Cabaldon will take too much heat. On the one hand, Cabaldon failed to disclose facts people might consider relevant. On the other hand, Republicans don’t wield a lot of power in the state legislature except on the state budget, so it’s not like Ashburn was the key to handing the gay community any state legislative setbacks. Further, it’s taboo in the gay community to out someone. Also, as Cabaldon said, it doesn’t matter if Ashburn is gay; he voted to uphold his constituents desires despite his personal life, which is a valid political posture.
My guess is that a lot of people probably didn’t know what he looked like. Let’s be honest, how many people can pick their state (not U.S.) senators out of a line-up. And if he’s in a bar with dim lighting and wearing regular street clothes, he’d be even less recognizable. True he was anti-gay, but that alone wouldn’t make stand out in the GOP ranks. A lot of people may have heard his name or seen it in the paper, but but they’d just chalk up his voting record as typical of the Republican Party and not pay that much attention to him.
What a clusterfuck. I can’t help but wonder if I could have managed some respect for him if he’d decided to come out in public on his own terms while still voting with the views of his constituency. I can’t help but think that would have catalyzed some much-needed and productive dialogue. I suppose my opinion of him would be swayed by when he admitted to himself that he was gay. If it was prior to his political career, or early in it, I’m more inclined to think of him as an opportunistic coward. If it was a rather recent realization, then I’d be inclined to give him a bit more slack. But I still would have rather seen him come out on his own terms, not just because he got caught being a dangerous drunk in a car that happened to be leaving a gay bar.
Well you can certainly knock me over with a feather right about now. Preferably boa feathers. From the linked article: “I think it’s sad more than hypocritical,” Lopez said. “We’re not in Roy’s head. We don’t know what is he thinking. We hope he comes to terms with whatever is making him make a choice to be a gay man.” :rolleyes:
I suppose, for me, I really didn’t expect him to own up to it- particularly since the rumblings I heard out of his office quite literally were the lamest of lame (the gay agenda thing, for one). Particularly because he is a snake of the highest order, so the absolute last thing I expected was a shred of honesty.
I am trying to find this, because it is hilarious and a prime example of this sort of warped point of view. I can’t even imagine who the guy (politican? Evangelical? I can’t remember) was targeting – What kind of woman wants a man who considers his attraction and marriage to her a ‘choice’ he must struggle with to stay good with God?
Not sure about politicians, but as far as religious hypocrisy goes Dan said a little while ago that, for the most part, he sticks to covering youth pastors caught with their something in the something jar. Because there are just too many adult religious figures who use their authority to rape, molest, etc. it’s barely worth remarking upon.
Oh, I found that ludicrous thing last year on Beliefnet.com. It was on a blog there called Kingdom of Priests and was called something like Why Gay Marriage Will Hurt Women. Hilariously warped and twisted reasoning by someone who spent way too much time thinking about it. There was quite the dustup with Dan Savage.
Which reminds me–do they think that women feel the same way? Or do they just kind of forget about lesbians and/or assume that normal women have no sex drive? Or are lesbians what happen when women don’t know their place?
Interesting (and rather predictable, I suppose) turn of events.
I do not understand why he married to begin with! What is the reasoning behind that – “I am not attracted to women, but I am going to marry one just to fit in with heterosexual society.” Perplexing! Why would you put your spouse through such an ordeal?
(Now, if he had been bisexual, I can understand the whole marriage thing a bit better… but he says he is gay, not bi!)