Listen up, folks. Kentucky’s Governor Steve Beshear wants everyone to know: Contrary to what you might think, a ban on same-sex marriage is not actually discriminatory against gay people.
In a brief filed with the Supreme Court, which is currently debating the issue of gay marriage, Beshear explained his rationale by saying that banning same-sex marriage isn’t homophobic because heterosexuals can’t marry people of the same gender either.
We repeat: Banning same-sex marriage isn’t homophobic because heterosexuals can’t marry people of the same gender either.
Feel free to take a moment to wrap your head around that logic.
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Dan Canon, one of the lawyers representing the couples currently fighting the state’s ban on same-sex marriage, said: “Kentucky is in essence saying that our clients are precluded from marriage entirely, unless they change their sexual orientation (or simply marry someone to whom they are not attracted). It’s akin to passing a law banning all Catholic churches within city limits, and then saying it’s not discriminatory because you can still go to a Baptist church.”
But Gov. Beshear’s lawyer disagrees. She claims that the ban is not discriminatory since the law applies to everyone, gay or straight. Not to mention, opposite-sex marriage is “the formation of relationships that further the commonwealth’s fundamental interest in ensuring humanity’s continued existence.”
She also added that gay people don’t deserve legal protections because they had not wield enough political power, nor do that have much popular support.
Oh, and BTW, did we mention Steve Beshear is a Democrat? Seriously, WTF?
Sam Marcosson, a law professor at the University of Louisville told The Courier Journal: “I wonder what Governor Beshear and his lawyers would say if the shoe was on the other foot, and if the only option for marriage was of the same-sex variety.”
He added: “Marriage inequality has really hit a new low.”
We’d argue this isn’t so much a “new low” as it is opponents of marriage equality running out of arguments.
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Zach Jewell
Idiot. Idiot. Idiot.
Guido Habets
what is he on?
Chris Duffy
Dear old farts: Just stop.
Maniel Sid Krux
Sounds about right for someone in that state lol dumb
Tammy Rs Surly Manson
Ummmm
hex0
More stupid nonsense, separate but “equal” isn’t equal. And what better to force a gay man to marry a woman he doesn’t love in order to uphold the sanctity of marriage
J.r. LeJeune
Idiot
Aly Son
Bahahahaha
Darryl Moir
What a fucktard
Lawrence Gisonda
Say whaaaaaaaaaaaaatt?
Jacob Smiley
Duhhhhhh!
John Hankins
Someone needs to take some sensitivity classes.
Jeffrey Pressner
His brain must have gotten trampled on during the Kentucky Derby…what a moron.
Donald Martin
He looks exactly the type.
Goforit
I suspect that even Scalia is going to get a chuckle out of that argument.
Paul Limandri
What an idiot governor you guys have…feel sorry for u!
Giancarlo85
This is Republican turd logic. They say stupid things about same sex marriage, the economy, international issues, women’s rights and many other things. This bit of stupidity doesn’t surprise me. Where are all the gay Republicans and libertarian backstabbers on here? All silent.
Kamal Patel
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA hope he hasnt passed those genius genes on
Rick Zaiser
stupid
Michael R Miller
smh.
Joey Capetillo
Wow…
Troy E. Pelaar
The desperation is getting pathetic. Just proves there is ignorance in both parties.
Gene Rac
And he’s a Governor, but then it’s Kentucky
Dan Nichols
I don’t know whether to laugh or feel sorry for him… Ignorance… Sad… Ok, no… I cannot help it… I’m laughing… A lot.
Guilherme Borsatto
HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
Matthew Katz
it’s amazing.. I’ve never seen an actual ASSHEAD speak before. someone should tell the Gov. he died years ago and it’s time to lie down in the dirt!
jwtraveler
@Goforit: I wouldn’t bet on it.
Henry Benavidez
Idiot!
Drew C. Smith
omFUCKINGg
Luis H. Lopez
Well Hitler and his NAZI party did that’s what you bigoted fake hypocrite Christians are haters and bigoted foul revolting ! On with the economic boycott !!!
Patrick Laney
Um…. He is just still pissed he could not marry his cousin…
Paul Bennett
How can you be so stupid and get elected?
Victor Barry
In his defense, he does look pretty stupid.
Mike Benevenstanciano
This sir, is why your state is a toilet.
Tom Remillard
No words for this ….he is educated???
Teodor Ciprian
Lmfao
Billy Drake
He is a pure dumbass
Craig Marker
WTF?!
jwtraveler
Refusing to hire pregnant women is not discriminatory if the company doesn’t hire pregnant men either.
Ron King
Where’s all the intelligent people of Kentucky…with leaders like McConnell, Paul& this fool.
Alex Rothwell
He’s an idiot.
AtticusBennett
elected republican leaders are just as stupid as the white trash that votes them into power.
Letao
My retort to this logic is always: Let’s ban Christian worship. Since it will apply to both Christians and atheists alike, there is no discrimination.
John Reuben Crews
Just because the genders/sexes are discriminated against equally doesn’t change that FACT that it IS DISCRIMINATION against SEX/GENDER, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, AND GENDER IDENTITY/EXPRESSION. Discrimination is still discrimination!
Tom Hughsted
Huh??
Michael Davy
How the hell did he get this job?
Dev Russo
It’s very clear to me that not only is there is generation gap, but some serious lobotomizing going on behind closed doors here. 😉
Johnnie Apodaca
Really??
Robert Casey
God this makes my head hurt.
Randy Kennell
dose he not get it same sex marriage is gay marriage daaaaaaaa
Eric Erickson
This was the argument used to defend miscegenation laws 50 years ago.
Kevin J Desmond
Kentucky’s Governor is a FUCKEN IDIOT !!!!!
Mike Kubisek
He failed logic class I’m sure.
Tom Swayzee
LOL
Maritz Olivier
This is probably the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard!
Patrick Mahoney
Idgit
Gert van Veen
Dumb & dumber part 3
Brian Tankersley
Can u say ignorance
Travis Zepp
I don’t think we need allergy warnings on products because they don’t bother people who aren’t allergic!
Troy Brock
Are ‘we the people’ only electing the stupidest ones who run for an office?
Kal Andrews
Moron
Reinhard Schuerer
Apparently the dumbest people become Governors as they can’t find any other jobs
Rick Miller
Seriously? Idiots.
Donnie Bass
Until these kinds of people die out humanity will suffer
John Kuehnle
Does he think before he speaks?
Charles Jenkins
He is an idiot
Keith Summers
** sigh ** I just do not have the words for this idiocy.
Daniel Bestic
okay are you a whole new type of idiot? lmfao
Danny Adams II
April Fools joke? Right?
gjg64
I haven’t heard logic like that since Stephen Colbert went off the air.
Doughosier
Honestly. most of the anti-gay Republicans think being gay is just a choice. There are no gay people, we just have chosen to suck dick every now and then. If they could be shown it is NOT a choice, their bigotry would become obvious to themselves.
Fidel Lee
i apoligise for my use of undisirable language in advance and i know i should not stoop to his level BUT!!! …….. this effing retard who the F!!!! he think he fooling huh?!!!!!!!
Alan Arthur Anglin
He’s a special brand stupid isn’t he. Well bless his little heart
Jakk Bjarkarson
What an utter twat I feel for Kentucky I really do 🙁
jckfmsincty
Kentucky: 6 million people, 11 different last names
Bryan Conti
4 years of college for that?
Rick Caffey
Another one that has crawled out from the dumb rock..
Hope his mommy and daddy were not brother and sister…
Patrick Healey
Idiot
Jeff Eiselman
Senile old jackass.
jimontp
Could have finsihed the whole story in the first four words.
Kentucky Governor doesn’t think.
That says it all.
Jason Bennett-Hardy
Let’s fax his ass back to 1995.
TransParency_
Can we please stop using the the words ‘same-sex’ to refer to gay people and gay relationships?. Homosexuality encompasses attraction to people of the same sex AND GENDER. Trans men and women are every bit as gay as Cis-homos and lesbians.
Matthew Farris
He must have gone to school in Kentucky.
Mark Purvis
WTF?????
darian
1 this guy is a Democrat. 2 this guy is a lawyer. Some how 1+1 isn’t equaling 2 in this equation. Both know better that to say this kind of ignorant crap yet believe in it.
Korree Johnson
No, but unlike a gay person, they CAN marry the person that they love.
Ivan Alberto Lugo
WTF!!!!
Eric Erickson
That’s what they said in the 1960s of miscegenation laws.
Anthony Howard-Lewis
Lame! Good thing it’s his last term!
Dennis Sandoval
this made my brains hurt
Ron W Powell
What a fucking idiot!
Gus Anderson
It seems old, White guys are stupid. Were they always stupid of did they become stupid when they got old? I’m a White guy….will I become stupid when I get old too?
jwtraveler
@Michael Davy: A lot of stupid rednecks voted for him.
Jim Polcyn
Is the whole country governed by idiots?
jwtraveler
@TransParency_: You’ve been gone a while. I haven’t missed you.
Grumpy Cat
Steve Beshear’s father and uncle were both Primitive Baptist ministers. The apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
Brad Krueger
My brain just broke.
Damon Robbins
What a moron!
Kaz Spero
Sadly we have an idiot here that made that the law… It’s the reason Australian’s dont have marriage equality ð???
Barry Shatswell
Apparently, he won the pity vote during the last election.
Sheila Meisel
I’m married to the opposite sex but can’t have children hmmm how’s that fit in with “humanity’s continued existence”?
Mike Baker
Ridiculous. This is like saying gays don’t really have sex because sex is to procreate, thus what same sex couples do isn’t really sex at all. Let’s continue to redefine key words.
Rusty66
Apparently, the Reich doesn’t know how to use the WayBack Machine.
That tactic was used as far back as Loving v. Virginia (1967?).
It didn’t work then either.
David Briskie
Is this guy for real ? Ignorance plain and simple !
Rangerboy
Reflects the IQ of the Governor…..a bit low
April Rathel
What an idiot… No wonder my Father lives in and loves this state! Uh, my only relation to my Father is a little bit of blood. That’s all….lol
Roy Lewis
Say what?
Darryl Cummings
Speechless.
Albert Galowitch
This man is right in the head!
Johnathan-Perry O'Brien
Really I will pray for you to have love and compassion for all
John Lambert
This guy is an IDIOT!!!
Eugene Schnitger
just don’t do drugs…
Eric Carlson
Thats the arkansas governor tho
Paul C Reed
Hes a moron
Raymond59
Why do they have to perpetuate the sterotype of the south?!?! Can’t fix STUPUD!
Tom Belkowski
I hope he was trying to make a joke. Because, if he was serious, in addition to having a bad sense of humor, he is also an idiot.
Mark Pointon
What a fuckin muppet.
Alan David
Is this guy for real ?
Jeremy Coburn
Bafoon
Zaccheo Rhoades
Nigga can wish tho can’t he lol
tusgold
@Luis H. Lopez: RIGHT ON Mr Lopez start with a call to Wal Mart for Arkansas
tusgold
OK, lets try this usng race….well white people arent allowed to marry black people either. Ya it still smells like bullshit. He;s in que for a shit storm
Goforit
@Gus Anderson: YES
Andrew Vermaak
And these guys are your elected officials?
rickhfx
He must of had a stroke, clearly brain damaged. How sad.
Ernest Friend Benavente Jr.
OMD!!! for real???!!!
Valdemar Machado
I stopped reading at “Doesn’t Think.”
Joseph Carney
What a stupid fool this man is.
Claire Daccurso Latham
Pathetic
Jamie Scarborough
My damn governor is stupid….why would straights want to marry their own sex!? The only thing he is doing right is making sure the rfra is worded to where gays can’t be discriminated against
Willie Ramos
Oh lord n these are the people running our country n states. What a joke.
Realitycheck
Can the supreme court get on with it? Legalize gay marriage all over the USA and then lets strike down
all the religious anti gay laws.
1EqualityUSA
Realitycheck, If the Supreme Court does this, it will not be for noble reasons, but rather, to take the onus off of the Republicans for 2016. Making this “social issue” go away in a big hurry would help the Republicans, because then they wouldn’t need to publicly defend their bigoted views.
Erik Ing
What a retard for him to come up with that rationale.
Steve Oleszczuk
What a braind dead idiot!!!!!!!!!!
Terry McCarthy
This guy sucked too many dicks
James Wilbanks
He really needs to pull his head out of his ASS !!
Mark Taylor
Wow a mental giant!!!
Mark Alan McRoberts
Run Forest Run
Steven Germann
What a fucktard!
Kyle O'Flaherty
These idiot politicians are slowly but surly dying off. I look forward to the day when they finally go extinct.
Katie Cashion
This poor man is too stupid to be mad at. He is likely suffering from dementia of some kind. I’m guessing advanced.
gaym50ish
@TransParency_: I’m not sure I get your point about trans people, or why you would object to the term “same-sex.” We use the term “same-sex marriage” rather than “gay marriage” because you don’t have to prove you’re gay to marry someone of the same sex. There’s no test to make sure you’re gay before you can get a marriage license, and no requirement that ANY couple, gay or straight, must be in a sexual relationship to get married. Two staight dudes in my state could marry each other for any reason whatever, just as some man-woman couples do even if there’s no sex involved.
As for this governor, he’s making essentially the same dumb argument the Virginia state lawyers made in Loving v. Virginia in 1967. They argued that there was no discrimination because Mr. Loving, a white man, could marry a white woman and Ms. Jeter, a black woman, could marry a black man. Each party could still get married, they said — just not to one another.
If left-handedness were outlawed, I wonder if some people would say there’s no discrimination against left-handers because everyone has the same right to write. It just wouldn’t be right to write with the “wrong” hand!
1EqualityUSA
Who votes these wads into office?
Marco Belluardo-Crosby
Do these people have brain? And what about who elects them?
Giancarlo85
@TransParency_: STFU. We will continue using same sex because that is what they are SAME SEX. And stop using the term “CIS”. It has no relevance on this site.