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California’s new era of “gay” political correctness

Saturday, March 13, 2010, 7:45 pm |

Political correctness is running amok in California. Just say “I am gay” and all your troubles go away.

It used to be that politicians who were arrested for drunken driving did the honorable thing and resigned from office. Even this year, a drunk-driving state senator in Utah resigned the day after his arrest. But not in California!

The tabloid talk of the State Capitol, Republican state Senator Roy Ashburn, is setting a new standard for elected officials. The Ashburn standard: engage in homosexual behavior; use it to break up your marriage; lie to friends, donors, and constituents for years about it; violate your Taxpayer Protection Pledge by voting for the largest tax increase in state history; get drunk at gay bars and pick up younger men; get in your state-owned SUV and drive drunk only hours before you’re to be on the Senate floor; get arrested on a DUI a few blocks from the State Capitol building; and then – this is the essential part – cap it all off by boldly stating “I am gay.”

What magical results you’ll see. The media will quickly and conveniently forget about all the wrong you’ve done. You’ll be embraced by liberal politicians and even some Republican legislators will pat you on the back.

Just look at the media fawning over Ashburn:

Sheila James Kuehl commends Ashburn, says he’s being true to self
Sacramento Bee, March 8

“Ashburn may have been fearful of being criticized”
KCRA Ch. 3 Sacramento, March 8

Dan Walters: Coming out of the closet is best for all
Sacramento Bee, March 9

Ashburn changes narrative by publicly revealing sexual orientation
Capitol Weekly, March 11

Gay groups reach out to Ashburn
Bay Area Reporter, March 11

What has Roy Ashburn’s bad behavior – and his “I am gay” statement – done to society, especially to impressionable young people?

For politicians who need to resign, saying “I am gay” is like swallowing a pill to make their public-relations troubles go away. But, as with all drugs, there are side effects. This particular drug has the very negative effect of taking California to a new “low” for elected officials. Here’s the damage Roy Ashburn has done:

• He’s redefined the standard for public office. No longer is personal bad conduct reason to resign. No longer will being arrested for drunken driving, in a taxpayer-funded vehicle, trigger anyone’s resignation.

• He’s made himself the latest poster boy for mainstreaming of homosexuality — with, of course, no mention of the very high rate of sexually transmitted diseases and the fact that there’s no “gay gene.”

• He’s teaching young people that if you’re sexually confused, don’t seek Christian gender-identity counseling, just announce “I’m gay!” This will satisfy liberal people. And then to satisfy most churchgoers, just like Ashburn did, say “My faith is very clear and very firm…I pray to God that I can find peace…I ask people to pray for me.” And then show up to work like you’ve done nothing wrong.

Homosexuality rumors “first back in 2004”

Ashburn divorced his wife, Diane, in 2003, choosing a secret homosexual lifestyle over his marriage vows. As reported by Capitol Weekly, a Sacramento online publication, Ashburn’s homosexual lifestyle has been going on for several years:

Ashburn’s sexual orientation has been chattered about in the Capitol for years. Many considered his sexuality to be old news, especially since Ashburn terms out this year and his political future is uncertain. He didn’t pursue rumored bids for the Board of Equalization and Congress. In his interview with Barks, he said he dropped the idea of a congressional bid due to his sexuality.

A number of people told Capitol Weekly that Ashburn has been a regular at Sacramento gay bars for at least two years. Some said Ashburn became more brazen after his local paper, The Bakersfield Californian, laid off longtime Sacramento bureau chief Vic Pollard in 2007. Pollard had a reputation for dealing aggressively with politicians and breaking major stories about them, such as his report on Rep. Bill Thomas, who was married and then the powerful chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, for having an affair in 2001. Thomas was Ashburn’s political mentor and former employer.

Pollard, who still freelances for the paper and writes for the Capitol Morning Report, said that calls and emails about Ashburn’s sexuality “rose and fell in waves,” first back in 2004, then again last year. Last summer, the paper’s Lois Henry asked Ashburn if he was gay. Ashburn refused to answer. But Pollard said the paper had no interest in outing Ashburn “for the sake of outing him.”

SaveCalifornia.com is faithfully holding up a moral standard

So far, SaveCalifornia.com is the sole California pro-family organization calling for Ashburn’s resignation. There should have been others. Our calling is to stand up and proclaim the difference between right and wrong in government and culture. We serve the people, not the politicians. And, like we’re used to, we stood for the truth this last week despite liberal name-calling.

Our March 8 news release outlined the combined reasons why Ashburn is untrustworthy and should resign.

Our March 10 news release explained how legislators in other states resigned after being arrested for drunk driving. In January, Sheldon Killpack, the #2 Republican in the Utah State Senate, resigned the day after being arrested for drunk driving, saying he didn’t want to become a public distraction.

More examples of resignation keep coming in. We just learned today that Kevin Garn, the #2 Republican in the Utah House of Representatives, has resigned after it was revealed that he paid a woman to keep quiet about being nude together in a hot tub 25 years ago.

Is Roy Ashburn listening?

SaveCalifornia.com’s voice for more principled government was heard in Sacramento, Bakersfield, Fresno, other parts of the state, and around the nation through OneNewsNow.

Check out the media coverage featuring SaveCalifornia.com’s voice for truth in this matter

ACT NOW: Stand up for what’s right

Call Roy Ashburn’s office at 916-651-4018 or email him and demand that he do what’s right and resign. Even if you’re told he has voted pro-family in the past, he is untrustworthy now. Also call your California state senator and state assemblymember and tell them to urge Roy Ashburn to resign. Find their contact information.

When the righteous thrive, the people rejoice;
when the wicked rule, the people groan.

Proverbs 29: 2 NIV

Lying, cheating, ‘gay’ Roy Ashburn should resign

Monday, March 8, 2010, 12:31 pm |

ACTION: Call Roy Ashburn’s office at 916-651-4018 or email him and demand that he resign. Even if you’re told he has voted pro-family in the past, he is untrustworthy now. Also call  your California state senator and state assemblymember and tell them to urge Roy Ashburn to resign. Find their contact information.

Now he’s completely “out.” Monday morning on the radio, Republican State Senator Roy Ashburn of Bakersfield said “I’m gay.”

But Roy Ashburn is mistaken. No one is “gay” because the so-called “gay gene” does not exist. What’s more, there are thousands of Americans who formerly engaged in homosexual behavior who have gotten help and have left their unnatural lifestyle behind.

Should Ashburn resign? Yes, he should. His lying, cheating ways have boiled over and the public’s trust has been shattered.

For all these reasons combined, Ashburn must go:

• He swore to uphold the law, then broke the law and endangered others by driving drunk.
• He vowed to be faithful to his wife, then broke his vows when he chose homosexuality over his marriage.
• He signed the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, then broke his pledge in 2009 when he voted in favor of the biggest tax increase in state history.
• He repeatedly lied to people who asked him to honestly tell them whether he was living the homosexual lifestyle.
• Now that he has openly identified with the “LGBT” lifestyle, Ashburn is dramatically out of step with his constituents, has lost their trust, and is in danger of voting against their conservative family values.

Demonstrating himself to be self-serving, Ashburn has proven himself untrustworthy as a public servant. He should resign.

Background: Ashburn’s Alleged ‘Double Life’ Questioned after DUI Arrest

Stop the stinky Christmas gift of the Senate Democrats

Saturday, December 19, 2009, 2:32 pm |

ALERT: Call 202-224-3121 TODAY to oppose the Democrats’ latest “health care” monstrosity

Why does U.S. Senator Ben Nelson call himself a conservative Democrat? Because conservative sounds good to most Nebraskans and Nelson calls himself pro-life on abortion.

But proving himself to be more Democrat than conservative, after two days of internal pressure, Nelson has thrown his support to a big new government health insurance program that will increase healthcare costs for taxpayers, ratepayers, and businesses, dramatically increase the national debt, and yes…continue to spend federal taxpayer dollars for abortion, despite Democrat managers claiming it doesn’t!

Nelson’s agreement — actually, his cave-in — to become the 60th vote in favor of Democrat Senate leader Harry Reid’s latest draft of the government health insurance bill means Reid will push, push, push to pass the bill on Christmas Eve to meet an arbitrary, politically-correct deadline that he and Barack Obama agreed on. The first test of the 60-vote threshold will be on a procedural item schedule for Monday 1 a.m.

VIEW PORTIONS OF TODAY’S U.S. SENATE DEBATE (Debate resumes Sunday 1 p.m. Eastern Time)

Bob Schieffer, to Katie Couric, on last night’s CBS Evening News, said “No one can say exactly what’s in it, how much it’s going to cost. What we’re hearing and seeing here tonight, Katie, is the legislative process at its worst.”

This morning, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said the new bill is a “legislative train wreck of historic proportions” with “massive tax increases” at a time of double-digit unemployment. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina said, “This is not about health care reform; this is about the Democratic Party trying to save themselves.”

In this mad rush to pass something that’s liberal that Democrats can label “healthcare reform,” eight Democrats (including Independent Joe Lieberman), who earlier signed a letter demanding a full 72 hours of public inspection of the bill with complete cost analysis, are violating their own pledge
 
PLEASE TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION

At the same time that Democrats in the U.S. Senate want to give Americans a bad Christmas gift, it’s up to you, me and every principled American to resist this awful proposal:

Please call Ben Nelson and the other Democrat senators who signed the letter demanding an orderly process and who have publicly expressed qualms about higher costs and more government control of the private sector. Demand that they “Oppose the Reid amendment to HR 3590. This is the wrong way to reform healthcare. This is much bigger government, higher costs, higher premiums, and greater debt on every American. It will lead to rationing of health care and eventual total government control of health care in our country.” 

Here are their Capitol office numbers. If there is no answer, please call them through the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.

REPUBLICAN SENATE LEADERS ASK AMERICANS TO RISE UP AND FIGHT THE NEW BILL

SENATE REPUBLICAN LEADER MITCH MCCONNELL:

If they were proud of this bill they wouldn’t be doing it this way. They wouldn’t be jamming it through in the middle of the night on the last weekend before Christmas. And that really sums up what we’ve seen on full display here as they try to bob and weave and hide from the American people, who’ve made it abundantly clear they do not support what they know about this bill.  Now, we’ve got, as you know, an expanded version of it now. It’s important that we are having it read so we can figure out, like 300 million other Americans and all of you,

I’m here with a message for the American people. This morning, Democratic leaders in Washington stood on the Senate floor and sprang a new piece of legislation on the American people that will have a profound impact on our nation. This is not renaming a post office. Make no mistake, this bill will reshape our nation and our lives. And Democrats are forcing a vote on it, as I indicated, over the weekend, and counting on the fact that the American people are preoccupied with Christmas and not paying much attention to what they’re doing. And the reason for that, obviously, is we know from all the survey data that Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to this bill. This bill is a legislative train wreck of historic proportions.

SENATOR AND BABY DOCTOR TOM COBURN:

For the first time in the history of the country, under this bill, federal tax dollars will be used to pay for abortions. The negotiations, whoever did ‘em, threw unborn babies under the bus.

If you read the language, it circumvents and violates the clear intent of the Hyde, the Stupak and the Nelson amendments. What will happen is federal funds throughout the county, even with the opt-out, will be used to provide abortions. That is a drastic change in policy in this country. 

Read Coburn’s analysis of how the Democrat’s bill continues to fund abortions with the taxpayer dollars of every taxpayer in every state

SEE THE GOVERNMENT TAKEOVER OF INSURANCE IN THIS BILL (as described by this morning’s Washington Post):

GOVT-MANAGED ‘AFFORDABLE COVERAGE’: “A complete ban on the practice would take effect in 2014, when the legislation seeks to create a network of state-based insurance exchanges, or marketplaces, where people who lack access to affordable coverage through an insurer can purchase policies.”

GOVT-CONTROL OF INSURANCE INDUSTRY: “Insurers competing in the exchanges would be required to justify rate increases, and those who jacked up prices unduly could be barred from the exchange. Reid’s package also would give patients the right to appeal to an independent board if an insurer denies a medical claim. And all insurance companies would be required to spend at least 80 cents of every dollar they collect in premiums on delivering care to their customers.”

GOVT-MANDATE OF HEALTH INSURANCE, FINES AGAINST INDIVIDUAL ‘VIOLATORS,’ FINES AGAINST EMPLOYERS: “Every American would be required to obtain coverage under the proposal, and employers would be required to pay a fine if they failed to offer affordable coverage and their workers sought federal subsidies to purchase insurance in the exchanges. Reid’s package would offer additional assistance to the smallest businesses, however, increasing tax credits to purchase coverage by $12 billion over previous versions.”