Roy Ashburn, un senador estadounidense, republicano, anti-derechos gay, divorciado y con cuatro hijos, reconoció su homosexualidad ayer durante una entrevista radial concedida a la estación KERN en California, estado que él representa.
Ashburn está en licencia desde la semana pasada luego que fue detenido por manejar con copas de más (así lo reportamos en La Lonchería). Salía de un antro gay. Él, uno de los que votaron en contra se opuso a un proyecto de ley para establecer un día de reconocimiento para honrar al asesinado activista por los derechos de los homosexuales Harvey Milk.
El senador también se opuso a los esfuerzos para aumentar las leyes en contra de la discriminación y el reconocimiento de los matrimonios entre homosexuales.
Justificó sus posturas políticas por representar los intereses de sus votantes más que los propios. Ajá.
A cuántos cardenales y políticos les pasará algún día lo mismo. ¿Hacemos ternas?
“Family Values” California state senator representing Kern County, Republican Roy Ashburn (guess how he votes on gay issues?), goes to a gay bar near the Capital, picks up a scantily clad buddy, gets drunk, drives and receives a DUI. In my opinion the Republican Party has been taken over small portions of the republican party of “birthers, baggers and blowhards” (people who love to push their beliefs on others while trying to take away rights of those they just hate) and that’s who they need to extract from their party if they real want to win. Good Luck, because as they said in WACO, “We Ain’t Coming Out”. They are good at “Follow the Leader”. They listen to their dullard leaders Beck, Hedgecock, Hannity, O’Reilly, Rush and Savage and the rest of the Blowhards. The world is complicated and most republicans (Hamiliton, Lincoln, Roosevelt) believe that we should use government a little to increase social mobility, now its about dancing around the claim that government is the problem. The sainted Reagan passed the biggest tax increase in American history and as a result federal employment increased, but facts are lost when mired in mysticism and superstition. Although most republicans are trying to distant themselves from this fringe they have a long way to go. I guess Ashburn is the first on the list “2010 Republican Summer of Love”. Remember last year list of “2009 Republican Summer of Love”: state assemblyman, Michael D. Duvall (CA), Senator John Ensign (NV), Senator Paul Stanley (TN), Governor Mark Stanford (SC), SC Board of Ed Chair, Kristin Maguire (AKA Bridget Keeney). Do I hear Tammy Wynette, “Stand By Your Man” playing in the background? I remember not so long ago that other Orange County song favorite, “Stand By Your Tan” (for Tan Nguyen). But that’s another Orange County fool.