Now for the Clown Award, given weekly for meritorious stupidity.This week the winner of the big red nose is Tom Corbett, the governor of Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is the only state in the northeast that allows for neither same-sex marriage or civil unions.
Earlier this year, one suburban Philadelphia county began issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The state sued to stop the practice, arguing that an individual county could not make that decision. One couple that had been issued one of those licenses wanted to intervene in the case, but in August Corbett's lawyers opposed the move, saying in a filing that if two 12-year-old children were issued a marriage license and tried to defend it in court, they wouldn't be taken seriously because the license was never valid.
Put another way, Corbett's legal goons were saying that the court should regard two adults the same way it would regard two 12-year-olds - if those adults are gay.
That, as it turned out, didn't go over so well with the public, so Corbett decided he would make it all better. Asked about it last week in a TV interview, he saidIt was an inappropriate analogy, you know. I think a much better analogy would have been brother and sister, don't you?Ah, I see. So in Tom Corbett's mind, same-sex marriage is not like children getting married, it's like incest.
What. A. Clown.
As a footnote, later that day, Corbett issued a by now standard non-apology apology, saying his "words were not intended to offend anyone" and he was sorry if they did. Like a typical clown, refusing to take responsibility for his own actions and words. Pathetic.
Sources:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/04/tom-corbett-gay-marriage-incest_n_4043202.html
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