"I ask you for forgiveness." Should gays, lesbians and others accept Carl Paladino's apology?

"I have made mistakes in this campaign - I have made mistakes all my life..."

He didn't really mean those nasty things he said! After all he has a gay nephew; there is one gay man working on his campaign (well, OK, that gay man is the nephew -- who has not been seen at the campaign office since the comments); the income from the gay bars he used to own helped him feed his non-brainwashed family; and anyway it was the radical rabbis he was speaking to who put that awful stuff in his speech -- and he didn't say all the horrible things they wanted him to say!!!

What do you think: should gays, lesbians and others who found his remarks offensive accept Carl Paladino's apology?