In breaking news, we have our first conservative gay senator! Round of applause! Senator Roy Ashburn, after being arrested for drunk driving, stated on a Kern County radio station the words that could be the water that melts his career: "I am gay."
Ashburn has had a long run in politics, the basis being his conservatism. He has a lesbian stepdaughter, but still was very much staunchly anti-gay rights. (Hmmm...Cheney...) He has led rallies in the name of what constitutes a marriage: "Marriage between one man and one woman is fundamental to civilization." His anti-gay rights votes he states, "were the voice of his people." Understandable, good for you.
Now this may be the end of the road for his career. Because of drunk driving, which is a civically irresponsible act? Or because he's newly outted? You guessed it, because he was honest about his sexual orientation.
A reporter asked several people in the county he is most familiar with what their opinions on the matter were, and a majority said that they would were more upset about the fact that he was gay.
Yet, there is one voice that supports Ashburn in all his turmoil: Chad Vegas. He is a pastor in the area and was quoted saying this: "I don't think that Roy's gay. I think he has homosexual inclinations. [Homosexuality] is a corruption of sexual desire. I actually think it's harmful to him."
So what is the actual crime: being gay or drunk driving? A lifestyle or the possibility of harming many due to being inebriated behind a motor vehicle? You be the judge.
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