Mike Rogers to Ken Mehlman: Apologize

Dan82 · Aug 26, 2010

http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2010/08/26/mike-rogers-to-ken-mehlman-apologize.aspx

Gay activist Mike Rogers of BlogActive had claimed, for six years, that one-time RNC chairman Ken Mehlman was gay. The chairman denied it. Finally, this week, Rogers learned that Mehlman was about to come out of the closet, and announced a "Roy Cohn Award" in his honor. I asked Rogers whether he thought Mehlman could make amends with the gay community. Sure, he said. And then he continued.

"He has to apologize," says Rogers. "We have to hear the words 'I'm sorry' roll off his lips, and he has to do it in 60-second video on YouTube. And then he has to do three things. First: He has to spend a day with the parents of a young person who killed himself or was murdered after the 2004 election. Second: He has to spend a day with the partner of someone who died in a hospital whose parter denied access to see him because he or she was gay and they weren't married. Third: He has to sell his $3.7 million condominium and give the money to the gay groups he basically raped to get the money in the first place. Those are fair requests that would say, to me, he was sorry for what he did."

Rogers is also, frankly, dismissive of Mehlman's motives for making his announcement.

"He probably wants to do a book, be on TV, be relevent, make money giving speeches," says Rogers. "I understand that. I mean, this is a Shakespearean play, isn't it? But is an apology too much to ask for this?"
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Mike Rogers to Ken Mehlman: Apologize

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