And so the issue is....and I do not apologize

One of my FB friends posted this: This was the Tag Line that the post was opened up with:


Another Republican comes out of the closet.....

(And here was the story),

State Sen. Roy Ashburn (R-Calif.), the fierce opponent of gay rights who was arrested last week for drunk driving after leaving a gay nightclub, confirmed in a radio interview Monday that he is gay.

"I'm gay," Ashburn told local radio host Inga Barks before returning to the Senate for the first time since his arrest. "Those are the words that have been so difficult for me for so long."

Ashburn, a 55-year-old divorced father of four, claimed his 15-year crusade against proposed gay-rights laws in the California statehouse stemmed from his desire to vote the way his constituents wanted.

AND NOW HERE IS MY RESPONSE THAT I POSTED, FOR WHICH I AM NOT SORRY, I FEEL THIS WAY DEEPLY....WHAT IS SO WRONG WITH US AS HUMANS THAT WE FEEL WE MUST HAVE THIS CRUTCH???

OK, I've never been gay and therefore I have no way of knowing what it would be like to keep a secret of who you truly are, when you are the age that he is and has an entire different book of generational "crap" rolling around in his head. How his family, friends, constituants will regard him, not because of his sexual orientation, but because he has been lying to them. How his role in life might change because of an admission, I don't know that feeling.

My personal feeling is that being gay has nothing to do with the true issue of being ashamed.  He should be ashamed of drunk driving..driving under the influence when he could have possibly killed an innocent person, he could have destroyed a person's life because he chose to become intoxicated and then get behind the wheel! The fact that he is gay is his personal business, but it has overshadowed a fact that is NOT his personal business....that he CHOSE to become intoxicated, be it through alcohol or an illegal substance, and got behind the wheel of a car that became a lethal weapon because of his intoxication...and could have changed another person's life and their family's lives, forever. Somehow I don't think that the fact that he is a Republican or Democrat has anything to do with it. Nor is the fact that he is gay or straight. And have we all not done, or covered up, or lied about things in our own lives? Can we not focus on the fact that he was under the influence and DRIVING? My daughter was almost hit yesterday by a driver who chose to ignore the fact that there was a bus in front of him with the lights flashing....3:00 in the afternoon....would we like to discuss what was wrong with the idiot driving the car? Don't know if he is straight or gay...don't care...none of my busines. Let's discuss his mental state at that time, with both the bus driver and this Senator!!!!

Intoxication behind the wheel. When are we going to get MAD about this? It is viewed as social normalcy. Funny. Someone we know got home and can't remember how and the story that they have to tell is really funny. THANK GOD THEY DIDN'T KILL SOMEONE ON THE WAY HOME! How funny would it be then? Our political gatherings, social gatherings, ... See Morefamily gatherings usually involve alcohol. Why? Because we can't stand to be around each other sober? Don't know. I don't drink and haven't for over 13 years. And don't plan to again. My personal opinion, nobody needs to. As a nurse I have seen the damage that it does to families. So have you Robin. When is your newspaper going to get mad about that? When are we as a society going to get mad about that? Never, because we are too dependent on it. It is a social, and physical, crutch that kills. Sorry to go off, and you have known me many years and so you know that I don't go off. But this just twists my insides. Makes me almost physically ill to know that the BIG newsworthy issue is that the guy was drunk and driving!!!

If you choose to drink in your home and STAY at home, that is definitely your business.  And if you choose to go out and drink...have a designated driver!!  A TRUE designated driver that WILL NOT DRINK WHILE YOU ARE OUT!!!  But when you choose to drink, and "it's just one drink. I'm fine. There is no problem. I'm not affected in any way", that is my business. You just endangered me, my family, my friends. It probably won't make a difference to you until it truly DOES affect you or your family or your teenager or your child that was innocently walking across the street. Then let's see if you choose to get upset. And by "you", I mean all of us. All that think it is funny to get "a little tipsy" and put the lampshade on our heads. We are all "you" and we all need to get mad.

So that's what I wrote, and that's how I feel. And I do not apologize.