Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi must not think federal judges are very bright. How else to explain her nutty defense of Florida’s antigay marriage ban?
It’s nothing we haven’t seen before: a lot of blah-blah-blah about protecting “stable family units,” as though gay parents aren’t stable. Bondi made the arguments in a brief filed in late May, and it’s about as terrible as a document possibly could be.
According to this person who is, incredibly, actually allowed to legally represent an entire state, preventing gay couples from marrying increases “the likelihood that children will be born to and raised by the mothers and fathers who produced them in stable and enduring family units.”
In other words, if we let gay people get married, straight parents will somehow lose their children. What? Or maybe she’s saying that straight parents will start divorcing if gays can marry?
How about we take this to the next level?
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Divorce is a topic that Bondi knows a thing or two about, because she’s done it herself three times. No doubt gay people were to blame in each case.
We’re actually a little relieved to see that Bondi’s making such a ridiculous argument, since it shows that she has absolutely no idea what she’s doing. Over a dozen courts have rejected similar lines of reasoning over the last year, and for all its shortcomings Florida will probably be no exception.
So, thanks for handing us a victory, Attorney General Bondi. Better luck with your next case! And your next marriage.
jezuzchrist
Fact check time, she has not been divorced three times. It was only two times. Get it right or don’t publish stories anymore.
Kenover
Why does Florida elect so many idiots?
JusMe_DoinMe
@jezuzchrist: what does it matter that its 2 times instead of 3 it just go’s to show her life isnt stable
samwise343
The third divorce was after her brain separated from her body.
Shanestud
Bet she once was crowned Miss Daytona Bitch in Florida
bjohnmasters
@JusMe_DoinMe: Actually, it’s kind of worse. Twice divorced, and then she and a 65 y/o opthamologist from Tampa, took a group of top-level Florida Pols, including Governor Scott to the Cayman Islands for a wedding ceremony in 2012, that never happened. Once everyone got down there, the only had some sort of weird service (appears to have to been thrown together on short notice), at which some scriptures were read, but no vows exchanged and no license signed. Someone, it appears, got cold feet at the very last minute. My guess is, it was the doctor. So, she’s had about 2.5 marriages.
hyhybt
“We’re actually a little relieved to see that Bondi’s making such a ridiculous argument, since it shows that she has absolutely no idea what she’s doing.”—Not necessarily. There *aren’t* any good arguments to make, and probably none that haven’t been rejected before, so if for whatever reason she believes she has to make an argument at all it must necessarily be a bad one.
stanhope
LOL this woman is loony and probably has a miserable life. What an ass!
GymJockTX
@Kenover:
Florida elects so many idiots because the people who vote them into office want to be represented by their own kind.
Dakotahgeo
Blond slut! Her children, if she has any, should be taken away from her and placed in same sex homes!
justinbrent
Let’s not let this pass. Share with her on Twitter & Facebook reminders that after calling gay families unstable that she hasn’t done so well in keeping in a stable marriage herself!
davidwesleyhorn
I have always been confused by the argument that gay marriage will not produce offspring and eventually when the whole world becomes gay, humans will become extinct…….lol
Cam
That Photo looks like it came from an audition reel for FOX News.
They LOVE young blond female hypocrites over at Fox.
BrianZ
@jezuzchrist: The first two divorces were from men, and the third from reality. What is so hard about counting to three? 😀
Roan
Technically the heifer is divorced twice with a third marriage pending.
Dez
This woman has no shame. I know she’s basically just a vile lawyer, but she doesn’t even have the good conscience to not hold/support this opinion on gay people when she herself is clearly an unstable b!tch? I mean, you’ve seriously been married and divorced three times but want to say gay’s are unstable. B!tch, you’re a HYPOCRITE!!!! SELF-RIGHTEOUS SPITEFUL HYPOCRITE!
Then idiots like her want to throw the religious argument at us, when the bible clearly says those who divorce and re-marry are an abomination or something of the sort.
Why is this still even a debate in politics!! It’s such utter B.S. If straight people are sick of hearing about gays and gay marriage in the news, they should be just as pissed off at politicians like PAM BONDI!!!
SteveDenver
She is by biblical definition: an adulteress, a harlot, a whore
1EqualityUSA
@SteveDenver:
She’ll get far in politics with those stellar credentials.
DickieJohnson
Another LMAO case against gay marriage. Let Blondi do the entire blahblahblah routine, at the FL taxpayers’ expense, because they elected the nitwit! After Blondi has done her anti-gay f*ck-tard song-and-dance, the Judge will simply roll his eyes, shake his head, and say, “Next!”
TampaBayTed
Ms Bondi is an example of the dangers of too much peroxide. What would Jesus say? Probably “You unrepentant adulteress casting stones at others.”
jimmac
Two or three marriages and how old is she, 30? My partner and I have been together, monogamous, and I still adore him for 34 years. She’s judging relationship stability? Really?
Mezaien
@Dakotahgeo: You talking shit dude.
jamesbrockart
Serial monogamist -mentally ill. Think Newt Gingrich.
Harley
Maybe she should review her bible and heed what it says about “menstrating” women.
Billysees
@jimmac:
Good comment —
” She’s judging relationship stability? Really? “
Dakotahgeo
@Harley: Menstruating, Harley… MENSTRUATING! Always Google your spelling or Spell Check. It’s makes you look schmardt!
Jim Guinnessey
More Republican hypocrisy!Hypocrisy is a Republican virtue.
hman
Florida for all the good things this state offers, we sure are governed by a bunch of backwards 1940-50’s a-holes. What gives AG Harley or any government official the right to tell other people how to live, no matter what you personally believe, what you believe doesn’t matter, your decisions have to be based on law and only law, not your beliefs or your backward churches belief, I think the way to cure this is to make sure we get out there and vote you all out of office in Nov2014.
Florida with so much to offer and the amount of tourists that come here, we have to be more progressive then the state has been. Unless we deivide the State in half everything above I-4 goes to Northern Fla aka southern Georgia, and everythjing south of the I-4 corridor goes to Southern Florida aka more progressive thinking people.
Brian Krashpad
Here’s the funny thing: all the shit she’s slinging in the high-profile Miami case WON’T MATTER. Not because she’ll get her ass kicked in court, which she will, though.
The Miami case she’s intervened in won’t decide the case in Florida.
Last fall, with zero fanfare, a case that my boss and I filed in Ft. Myers raised the possibility of challenging FL’s prohibition of marriage equality. A simple divorce, of 2 people married in Massachusetts. The trial court judge dismissed the case, and our case is now already up on appeal. In less than 2 weeks the answer brief should be filed in our case, and Ms. Bondi will have missed so much as filing as an amicus. Given that the Miami case is still pretrial, the odds of it being the one to decide the issue in Florida are slim and none. Sfaik ours is furthest along. The 2nd District Court of Appeal (where we are) of late has signaled it is not hostile to marriage equality, as has the FL supreme court.
Pam’s on the wrong side of history and will be steamrolled and consigned to its scrapheap. But since we didn’t publicize our case, she’s already missed the boat on the case that should decide the issue.
Dakotahgeo
@Mezaien: ROFLMBO! You would notice, wouldn’t you, little basement dweller. Now go get Mommy to tuck you in and give you your bottle and bwankie! Nighty night, little fella!
Maleko
@Kenover: Because it’s Florida. nuff said.