- Roy Ashburn
Three months after homophobic California State Sen. Roy Ashburn got caught driving drunk after leaving a gay bar, he was back on the floor of the Senate casting votes on two gay-rights bills.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Ashburn was the only Republican who voted in favor of a resolution supporting the right of gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military. But he also voted against a measure that could remove an obstacle to same-sex marriage:
Ashburn then took the unusual step of publicly explaining his votes on the Senate floor.
“I would not have been speaking on a measure dealing with sexual orientation ever prior to the events that have transpired in my life over the last three months,’’ Ashburn told his colleagues. “However, I am no longer willing or able to remain silent on issues that affect sexual orientation and the rights of individuals. And so I am doing something that is quite different and foreign to me, and it’s highly emotional.’’
Still a schmuck
Yeah. I’ll bet he’s had a change of heart, all right.
What a disgraceful human being.
Now that HE is forced to live under the unfair laws that he has helped implement in order to make the lives of LGTB citizens difficult and painful, he’s had a change of heart. Indeed.
There is a special place in hell for people like Roy Ashburn. Right next to all of the other’s who have abused God’s gay children in the name of morality and righteousness.
Forgiveness and redemption are both virtues we all can strive for, gentlemen.
The wife, kids and anti-gay bigotry were apart of his heterosexual cover. When gay people acknowledge haterosexuals as the source of anti-gay bigotry and how it affects gay children as they grow up hearing and seeing anti-gay bigotry in action on a consistant basis then things will change.
To those of you using the Bible as a weapon against homosexuality, you are wrong. Homosexuality is not a sin. The Bible is constantly being taken out of context to support anti-gay views. Scholars who have studied the Bible in context of the times and in relation to other passages have shown those passages (Leviticus, Corinthians, Romans, etc) have nothing to do with homosexuality. These passages often cherry-picked while ignoring the rest of the Bible. The sins theses passages are referring to are idolatry, Greek temple sex worship, prostitution, pederasty with teen boys, and rape, not homosexuality or two loving consenting adults.
https://www.soulfoodministry.org/docs/English/NotASin.htm
https://www.jesus21.com/content/sex/bible_homosexuality_print.html
https://www.christchapel.com/reclaiming.html
https://www.stjohnsmcc.org/new/BibleAbuse/BiblicalReferences.php
https://www.gaychristian101.com/
Thats why Jesus never mentions it as well. There is nothing immoral, wrong, or sinful about being gay. Jesus, however, clearly states he HATES hypocrites. If you preach goodness, then promote hate and twist the words of the Bible, you are a hypocrite, and will be judged and sent to hell. Homosexuals will not go to hell, hypocrites will.
This is very similar to the religious bigots of the past, where they took Bible passages to condone slavery, keep women down, and used Bible passages to claim blacks as curses who should be enslaved by the white man. People used God to claim that blacks marrying whites was unnatural, and not of God’s will.
The road to redemption is a long and (oftentimes) a lonely journey. Good luck, Roy.
PS: Seek counseling and stop voting against your self interest(s).