Yeah, I know that sounds like a LOLCATS caption (it also sounds like one of those news-that’s-not-news items like “World’s Oldest Person Dies”), but apparently it’s true. California State Senator Roy Ashburn is the latest anti-homosexual crusader who is himself a homosexual. What is it with these people? What’s worse than his political bigotry is the explanation he offers for his voting record: that that’s how he thought his constituents would want him to vote. Now, I’m all for democracy, but not just undiluted mob rule. Representative democracy means the people get a voice, but it also means that elected representatives have an obligation to do the right thing based on their own best judgment, not by putting a wet finger to the wind. How sick do you have to be to repeatedly vote against the very thing that defines you?
There’s a scene in “1776″ in which Lyman Hall (the delegate from Georgia!) openly ponders whether he’s been sent there as an unthinking mouthpiece for the voters, or as someone whose opinion is in high regard who should do what he thinks is right.
He decides to do what’s right and sides with the separatists (Adams, Franklin, Jefferson).
Dennis
Yup, I always indulge in a little guilty schadenfreude when these hate filled hypocrites are exposed.
Quite often people are in denial that they are actually homosexual. After all the society statements against homosexuality has often been contemptuous with most of this coming from religion, It has been over 35 years since the American Psychololical Association and the American Psychiatric Association came out in 1974 with large majorities in both professional groups declaring that research showed that gays and lesbians did not choose their livestyle but were born that way. I rarely have seen any reference to this in the normal press sources. Looks to me like the christians have largely got by with their support of slavery(all northern states except Rhode Island were slave states at one time) and terrorism of KKK and Jiw Crow “legal” raciism in the south and by practice in the North. Most are not aware that many northern communities drove blacks out of northern towns therefore christians “morality” has not largely come under specific criticism as I think it deserves on more than these two issues. If their Bible is a good source of morality then how did they support slavery,racism and attacks on homosexuals when research and studies could have informed us all. Instead millions suffered from their reliance on “scripture”.