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Homophobic Catholic senator, arrested for drink-driving, admits ‘I’m gay’
A CALIFORNIA state senator who has been a staunch opponent of homosexual rights was yesterday forced to admit that he himself is gay.
Republican lawmaker Roy Ashburn, a divorced conservative Roman Catholic, came out on KERN radio, saying he felt compelled to address rumours that he had visited a gay nightclub near the Capitol before his arrest last week for drunk driving.
Senator Roy Ashburn
I am gay. And so, those are the words that have been so difficult for me for so long.
The 55-year-old father of four said he had broken the law, putting people at risk, so he owed the public an explanation.
Ashburn has consistently voted against gay rights measures since he was elected to the state Assembly in 1996.
He has said those votes reflected the way constituents in his district wanted him to vote.
The Senator from Bakersfield, was spotted driving erratically in downtown Sacramento in the early hours of last Wednesday morning.
He was arrested after taking a breathalyser test and later charged with driving under the influence. A male passenger in the car, who has not been identified, was released without charge.
A statement issued after Ashburn’s arrest said:
I am deeply sorry for my actions and offer no excuses for my poor judgement. I accept complete responsibility for my conduct and am prepared to accept the consequences of 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.
Senator Ashburn was arrested after leaving Faces, a gay nightclub in midtown Sacramento, according to cbs13.com.
Writing on The Gospel According to Hate, (ex)-Father Tom said:
What happens when a good Catholic, married father of four, grandfather of two, tea-bagger, Reagan lover, Republican, senator, and staunch opponent of gay rights takes a state-issued vehicle out for a spin after dark on your tax dollars?
Ding! Ding! Ding!  He goes to a Sacramento gay bar (appropriately named Faces), gets trashed, picks up a trick, drives away drunk, swerves all over the road, gets pulled over, and blows a whopping .14 into the breathalyser. My dear heretics, it’s time to canonize another conservative Catholic and Republican anti-gay hypocrite.
Joining the likes of Senator Larry Craig, Reverend Ted Haggard, and Representative Mark Foley, I bestow upon you, State Senator Roy Ashburn of California, hypocrite for the post-Proposition 8 age.
Senator Roy-Toy has voted against every piece of civil, immigration, labor, LGBT, and women’s rights legislation since being elected, but that didn’t stop him from having his boys on the side. According to his website: In the tradition of Ronald Reagan, Senator Ashburn is a true reformer and a champion of openness, accountability, and bi-partisanship.
Well, recent events have definitely confirmed that he’s open and bi.
Hat tip: BarrieJohn (“Rest dear? Me Dear? NO DEAR!”)
An American, Anti-gay, Christian caught with his pants down.
Now who could have saw that coming…………?
No, say it isn’t so!!!! Another anti-gay politician discovered to be a closet dick smoker. At least he didn’t own a multi-million dollar religious organization.
NeoWolfe
NeoWolfe said: “At least he didn’t own a multi-million dollar religious organization.”
No, but a multi-million dollar religious organization clearly owned him. It called the Republican Party!
I love to see these most vociferous anti-this, that or the other hypocrites get exposed as frauds.
These right wing twats have no joy in their lives. Their outlook is never anything positive. They build their careers solely on what they are against.
I see bright future for this guy within
the catholic church.
It sound’s very funny… anti-gay politician
The louder they bash, the more I suspect.
It couldn’t have happened to a more odious fellow. This is confirmation of the old phrase, “Karma is a b!tch!” His undercover actions have come into the full light of day.
@ Barry Duke,
Obviously, you are not a Brit, or you would not have made such an insightful remark, not that Brits are stupid, or lack insight, they just dont’t understand how fucked our system is. Luckily, all my money is gone, and now all that’s left to do is sit in a lawn chair and watch these insane assholes destroy the planet for my children.
But, as you pointed out, the Republicans are by far the most entertaining element of the circus. First George Bush destroys our credibility across the planet by spending our great great grandchilden into unrecoverable debt so he can search for WMD’s in Iraq, against all sane voices in the EU, yet now, the deficit is being blamed on Obama. McCain can go on camera and state that people like Jerry Falwell are the voice of intolerance, but as soon as he decides to run for president, he’s on Falwell’s Sunday freikshow dressed like the pope. Palin pretends to protect the US from attack from the USSR, then resigns her office to go on tour selling books and schooling us all on the correct forum to use the word “retard”.
Did you ever see the movie “Armagedon”? Yeah, yeah, Bruce Willis, Ben Affleck, etc. And I can’t even remember his name, the skinny guy with the bad teeth that went space mad, and wanted to be on the front row seat for the last moments of earth. I sometimes feel like that, that there are so many stupid people that no one can save us from ourselves.
NeoWolfe
At least he didn’t own a multi-million dollar religious organization.
No, he just rallied on behalf of them and did their bidding for years, to the detriment of LGBT rights. He’s a vile piece of scum who sold out his own people to the enemy.
@NeoWolfe – we do have a pretty good idea how fucked your system is actually!
And it’s Steve Buscemi FYI.
There doesn’t appear to be a whisper of all this on his website!
http://cssrc.us/web/18/
(“So much to do; so little time”, Barry – hahaha!!!)
NeoWolfe: Wrong! I am a Brit, but having travelled extensively in the US I developed quite an interest in American politics. And once, in Los Angeles, I ALMOST had my hand shaken by Ronald Reagan. He was running for the presidency (first time round) when he breezed into town to press flesh.
I was sunning myself by the pool outside Duke’s Motel (where else?) on Santa Monica Boulevard when he leapt out of a limo to greet the me and the other boys he spotted over a low wall. Just as he extended his hand out to me, a panic-struck bunch of dark-suited spooks accompanying him rushed over and whispered something in his ear. All I managed to hear was “faggots!”. The hand was hastily withdrawn, the grin evaporated, and he sped off, with jeers ringing in his ears. Made my day, that did.
I expect that when asked about this embarrassing incident later in his life, Barry, all he could manage was to mutter: “I don’t recall”!
what a hypocrite. should have been outed years ago.
Brimming with apologies, but will there be any over the fact that he spent years opposing equal rights for gay people to cloak his own sexuality? Like a drunk Ashburn in front of a police officer, I won’t hold my breath.
I watched that Ted Haggard clip for the first time. Jesus wept! I admit it. I am naive, stupid, ignorant about these guys. Most of the time I don’t follow up on these clips and my disgust of these hypocrites is based on a superficial awareness of their sanctimonious hypocrisy. But when you actually see and hear that Ted Haggard sickboy,his loutish supposed humour, his twee supposed jokes, his references to the bible telling him how to behave and then discover what he actually is ………… I would love to stuff his bible down his lying throat.
I’ve never seen that hilarious Larry Craig video before, but do you notice that he actually begins his prepared statement by saying: “Thank you all very much for coming out today.” PMSL!!
@Barry Duke
Damn! So close. Who knows how this world would have changed had you given Ronny a debilitating case of gay back then? Everyone knows how contagious that gay is. I mean the strain going around back then required contact with em’ but the modern stuff is much tougher. All you have to do is let up your incessant gay bashing for a single moment and it’ll getcha. Probably what happened to poor Ashburn. Man took a short nap, let his guard down and woke up doing body shots off of some chiseled abs in a gay bar.
This always makes me rub my hands in glee at the irony. Stupid twat, he calls us the sinners but at least we aren’t living our lives in a lie because of what society wants.
I’ll ‘pray’ for him.
“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 Outâ€. They are good at “Follow the Leaderâ€. 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 Loveâ€. Remember last year list of “2009 Republican Summer of Loveâ€: 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.
Sweet twisted republiturd schadenfreude