The Advocate asks Ken Mehlman if he'd like a pillow or some ice cream

Just a day after former RNC Chair Ken "hahaha look how many marriage bans I imposed" Mehlman came out of his cushy and safe bubblecloset, he went directly to The Advocate for an interview on his coming out experience. Having read that gay news site for years, I expected a little more out of that interview. The first question was:

Tell me about how you got involved with this fundraiser you’re putting together to help support the legal challenge to California’s Proposition 8.

Then:

I know you’re focused on the fundraiser right now, but do you have your sights set on any other LGBT issues that you really want to work on moving forward?

There are certainly ways to ask pointed questions without having him call off the interview. I'm not asking them to be rude or anything. Those of us who were directly harmed to the point of mental illness by this guy's election tactics might just kind of prefer a gay news website to be a bit more on the side of its gay readers and a bit less on the side of people like this guy who never had to do anything he didn't feel like doing.

Then, when they did manage to sneak in two rather uncomfortable questions, Ken wanted all the whiners to know that his life is hard and that we should just shut up and take what we can get. Instead of offering apologies, this happened:

There’s a lot of gays and lesbians and other people who are still angry about the 2004 election and the fact that that those 11 amendments were on the ballot. Is there anything that you would like to say about that in particular?
Look, I have a lot of friends who ask questions and who are angry about it. I understand that folks are angry, I don’t know that you can change the past. As I’ve said, one thing I regret a lot is the fact that I wasn’t in the position I am today where I was comfortable with this part of my life, where I was able to be an advocate against that [strategy] and able to be someone who argued against it. I can’t change that – it is something I wish I could and I can only try to be helpful in the future.

But I understand the anger and I talk to friends about it – it’s something that I hear from a number of friends.

He doesn't know that you can change the past. I don't know that changing the past is what we're after. He also says that he regrets that he wasn't in a position to be against that strategy. However, no mention of the fact that he had no right to be for that strategy in the first place. Does being a closeted gay man justify his participation in anti-gay campaigns? Is he going to use the Roy Ashburn defense, that he so wanted to appear straight that he had absolutely no way to change and buck the party's evil conservative anti-gay hate? No, no he's not.

After a bizarre back-and-forth about whether or not Mehlman was uncomfortable during the anti-gay campaign (his anti-gay campaign) there's this:

Do you think it’s particularly difficult on the conservative side to do this, to come out?
I have found that my friends and former colleagues – and they are friends, people I worked in the campaign with and the White House – have been wonderful and incredibly supportive and have been encouraging. So I blame me that it took me 43 years – it had nothing to do with political philosophy.

Their political philosophy didn't stop him from coming out because it's a philosophy of opportunism. They don't really hate gays just as they don't really hate brown people. It's just a wedge issue to Ken Mehlman. After all this, after all the people who lived in fear and continue to do so, we find out that Ken was able to come out to his conservative friends with no problem. And he doesn't give a crap about what whiny faggots like us went through because he doesn't have to. He won't even get pestered by a gay news magazine.