HomoQuotable – CA Sen. Roy Ashburn

“The best I can do is to say that I was hiding. I was so in terror I could not allow any attention to come my way. So any measure that had to do with the subject of sexual orientation was an automatic “no” vote. I was paralyzed by this fear, and so I voted without even looking at the content. The purpose of government is to protect the rights of people under the law, regardless of our skin color, national origin, our height, our weight, our sexual orientation. This is a nation predicated on the belief that there is no discrimination on those characteristics, and so my vote denied people equal treatment, and I’m truly sorry for that.” – CA state Sen. Roy Ashburn, continuing his apology campaign.

Ashburn, who says he has stopped drinking since his DUI arrest, says that over the year before being outed, he had become increasingly bold and had even attended gay pride events in Las Vegas and San Diego.