Sex-Scandal Hypocrisy – Meghan McCain

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Big Fibbers

Closeted gay politicians like California State Senator Roy Ashburn need to stop lying to the public—and themselves.

There is something so depressing, and at the same time predictably hypocritical, about the recent drunk-driving arrest of California State Senator Roy Ashburn that resulted in his confession that he is gay. The 55-year-old Republican and divorced father of two made the admission on a local radio show after he was arrested for driving under the influence, leaving a gay nightclub in Sacramento with an “unidentified man in the passenger seat of his state-owned vehicle.” Although Ashburn doesn’t plan on running for any public office after his term ends this year, he is not resigning from office.

It’s not as if sex scandals—especially gay sex scandals—are new to politics. From Bob Bauman in the 1980s through Mark Foley, Larry Craig, and Jim McGreevey, right up to Ashburn and Rep. Eric Massa’s tickle fights, these episodes clearly aren’t defined by party affiliation either. What is so fascinating about Ashburn is that he seems to think that there is a delineation between the public and private lives of an elected official.

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Sex-Scandal Hypocrisy – The Daily Beast.