Dumb Tennessee Republicans Have New Plan To Ban Gay Marriage. It Is A Stupid Plan.

[niyad]

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Dumb Tennessee Republicans Have New Plan To Ban Gay Marriage. It Is A Stupid Plan.






Oh, Tennessee. You are such a pretty state, and yet you house some of the biggest A Idiots ever to have been whelped onto American soil. So these two Tennessee lawmakers, state Sen. Mae Beavers (it’s a perfectly nice name, stop laughing!) and state Rep. Mark Pody, have a idea inside their brains for how to get rid of all the gay marriage, and it is a stupid, bad idea. It also won’t work, but shhhhhh, those are details we can work out later: On Thursday two state Republican lawmakers unveiled their answer: a bill that they believe voids the Supreme Court decision and continues to define marriage under Tennessee law as a union between a man and a woman.
“Natural marriage between one (1) man and one (1) woman as recognized by the people of Tennessee remains the law in Tennessee, regardless of any court decision to the contrary,” the bill states.
“Any court decision purporting to strike down natural marriage, including (a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision), is unauthoritative, void, and of no effect.”

Stop laughing, these dicksnots are FOR SERIOUS. Perhaps they never studied civics and thus have no clue that, yes, Supreme Court decisions are, AHEM, “supreme.” That would include the court’s 2013 decision that the federal Defense of Marriage Act is null and void and sooooooo the ’90s, so a state’s attempt to legislate its own defense of marriage act would also therefore be unconstitutional and NOPE. Perhaps they’ve been staying up past their bedtimes and mainlining Tenther bullshit on the internet when their moms weren’t looking.

Or maybe they’ve just been snorting Mike Huckabee’s grundle lint, because their cute little bill, the “Natural Marriage Defense Act,” says things like this:
“Whereas, unlawful orders, no matter their source — whether from a military commander, a federal judge, or the United States Supreme Court — are and remain unlawful, and should be resisted.”

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What’s odd is that they’re not doing this in response to some sort of outcry from county clerks or anything like that. Tennessee isn’t burning heretics at the stake like Kentucky’s doing with Kim Davis (LOL), because as The Tennessean points out, all county clerks in the state are Doing The Gay, and they seem to be liking it. Oh, there was that one county clerk’s office what had a collective temper tantrum after the Supreme Court’s decision came down, but at least all the employees at that office were grown-up enough to just resign and create jobs for people eager to have them. The Republican governor of Tennessee, Bill Haslam, may not be happy about the Supreme Court ruling, but he’s following it, due to perhaps he is an adult, maybe.

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http://wonkette.com/594126/dumb-tennessee-republicans-have-new-plan-to-ban-gay-marriage-it-is-a-stupid-plan?utm_source=wysija&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=september+21

[randys1]

1. You may have forgot, a teaparty politician or party member is a DUMB person

and I mean that ALL of them are, and it should enrage the not dumb people that such dumb, mean, stupid ASSHOLES are in positions of power.

In DC they have to be taught how to hold their fucking FORKS before they go to official dinners.

This is not a joke.

[niyad]

4. and not in the least surprising.

[dembotoz]

2. well the supremes were all black and diana ross does not speak for me......

ya know i would hope i would not need the sarcasm thingy but i have been on enuf juries.......

[niyad]

3. sad, isn't it?

[tabasco]

5. It seems they skipped civics class in ninth grade.

I am constantly baffled by the increasingly rapid advent of idiocracy.

[niyad]

6. I keep thinking of the "100 monkey" thing. seems we reached tipping point a decade or so ago.

[unblock]

7. stupid? or cynical?

i know, i know; never ascribe to malice what can adequately be explained by stupidity....

but, i have to believe there are many politicians (invariably republican, it seems) who know damn well that their positions or bills won't past constitutional muster, but they press on regardless. not because they think the law will be upheld, but because they often don't really care about legislating, at least not on that particular issue. they're just playing politics.

it's an abuse of office of sorts, but they see it as an emphatic way of making their political views known. it's an opportunity for people to go on record supporting or opposing whatever it is, or embarrassing opponents who don't want to have to go on record on that issue.

sure, the courts will knock it down if it even passes. so what do they care? in the meanwhile, they've raised campaign money, won over some voters, maybe even won another election.

yes, plenty of them are stupid. but plenty of them are sly like a fox.

[niyad]

8. you have an excellent point. as pointed out further down in the article, the woman who

sponsored this bogus bs was also the author and sponsor in 2011 of a bill demanding that all candidates for office produce a long form birth certificate, even though she admitted that she had no clue what such a thing was.

[HassleCat]

9. Your big mistake here

"...state Sen. Mae Beavers (it’s a perfectly nice name, stop laughing!) and state Rep. Mark Pody, have a idea inside their brains..." Wrong! they couldn't come up with a complete brain between the two of them.

[niyad]

12. blame wonkette, not me.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. Rec just for use of "dicksnots" as a descriptor.

[niyad]

11. I am just glad I wasn't drinking anything when I read that.