GOP candidate Rebecca Kleefisch: Gay marriage a slippery slope, like marrying a table or a clock

[Amerigo Vespucci]

By Eric W. Dolan
Wednesday, October 27th, 2010 -- 12:04 pm

GOP candidate: Gay marriage like marrying a table or a clock

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/10/gop-candidate-gay-marriage-marrying-table/



Republican candidate for Wisconsin Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch compared same-sex marriage to marrying a clock during a radio interview.

"This is a slippery slope," Kleefisch said. "In addition to that at what point are we going to be okay marrying inanimate objects? Can I marry this table or this, you know, clock? Can we marry dogs?

"This is ridiculous," continued Kleefisch. "And biblically, again, I'm going to go right back to my fundamental Christian beliefs marriage is between one man and one woman."

Her statements upset gay rights activists, who protested outside of the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha while she gave a speech.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. A fine distinguishment: When I'm dying in the hospital, I don't want my alarm clock, I want my

partner by my side.

[GodlessBiker]

2. Thanks for contributing to gay teen deaths, Rebecca, you fucking asshole.

[Blue Owl]

3. The O'Donnell runs deep in that one

n/t

[KurtNYC]

4. she can't make a good case against same gender couples so

she says "slippery slope" and then exaggerates. That is sooooooo 1996.

[gratuitous]

5. They always go for the marrying your dog angle, don't they?

I wonder why that is?

[dkf]

6. ...or a shoe.

The rent is too damn high!

[WinkyDink]

7. I simply refuse to believe she is of my species.

[Betty]

8. so gay people are the equivalent of inanimate objects?

only in America, a corporation can be a person, but a person can't be a person.

[theHandpuppet]

23. +1000!

The irony is astounding, isn't it.

[Parker CA]

9. Kick and Rec to expose the continued psycho trend running deep through the Palin spawn.

[Enrique]

10. i never thought of it that way before

because I'm not an idiot.

[donco6]

11. I support the right of my alarm clock to marry.

As soon as he proposes to the table, I'm throwing a party.

[Erose999]

17. My alarm clock and table are together all the time. They wake me up every morning with their racous

lovemaking. I fear for their souls, you know, living in sin and such.

[donco6]

27. I usually just smack him on the head and roll over.

Shuts him up every time.

[AldebTX]

12. I Have Compared Arguing With My Partner

to talking to the wall....perhaps he IS an inanimate object.

[VMI Dem]

13. She should probably look elsewhere for more politically expedient ways to say that.

That is what I think.

[Erose999]

14. Its appaling that these people can't recognize that gays are human beings the same as the rest of us

What her comments are saying are basically "I hold as much regard for gays, the sanctity of their relationships, and their civil rights as I do this table, clock, and dog."

She's a bigot.

[BurtWorm]

15. Or a Barbie doll.

[Barack_America]

16. I expect her to speak out just as forcibly on divorce.

I'll wait.

[petronius]

32. Yes indeed. Not to mention shellfish and the wearing of mixed fabrics

However, something tells me her biblical interpretations are on the self-serving and convenient side...

[MineralMan]

18. Morons abound!

[City Lights]

19. Republicans get dumber by the minute.

Seriously. :wtf: is wrong with these creatures?

P.S. Love that plastic hair! It's :scared:. I bet it never even moved during the gusting winds of yesterday and today!

[Blaukraut]

20. Channeling "Man-on-Dog" Santorum, I see n/t

[Canuckistanian]

21. Almost word-for-word the same argument they used for interracial marriage

People laughed at them back then and they should now.

[krabigirl]

22. So tired of these dumb fundie women running for office.

And i am female so i can say that. So sick of them...the women's movement has been set back 100 yrs due to this, lol. The views that come out of their uneducated mouths are horrific and stupid.

[Lucy Goosey]

24. Why can't these people look around the world a little bit?

Canada has had legal same-sex marriage since 2003. (OK, it went national in '05, but in '03 it became legal in Canada's largest province, which meant A - that 1/3 of Canadians were living in a province with same sex marriage on the books, and B - because we have no DOMA-equivalent, any marriage performed in Ontario was recognized by all other provinces. But I digress.)

Anyway, my point: Nobody has married a table or a kettle or a pony. Nobody has advocated for legalizing human-toaster or human-puppy marriages. Nobody would take any proposition seriously - it's patently absurd. And while we're at it - no church, synagogue, mosque, temple, etc., has been forced to perform any marriages for anybody. That was true long before '03, and it's true now.

All of this is true in every country that has legal same sex marriage. Is it American Exceptionalism that keeps them from absorbing this simple fact? Or just flat-out ignorance? Because it's weird - what does it say about your beliefs about the USA if you think that Americans will start fighting for the right to marry lamps and cats, when that hasn't happened at all anywhere in Canada, Argentina, Belgium, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, or Sweden? Not to mention the American jurisdictions that allow same sex marriage?

I do not understand these people.

[bullwinkle428]

25. Michelle Bachmann v2.0.

[Bitwit1234]

26. What's she ...the table or the clock.

[RainDog]

28. what an airhead n/t

[Rex]

29. So gay people are like inanimate objects or lower animals to Kleefisch?

And then she goes and hides behind the Bible. Fuck her and I hope when she is rotting in Hell, it dawns on her that clocks and tables burn as well.

[Ignis]

30. Does she *want* her name to become a sexual term?

Because that sure sounds to me what's she's asking--no, begging us to do.

[Initech]

31. Man-on-alarm clock sex. That's a new one!

[PeaceNikki]

33. But she drives a minivan.

You will not escape Rebecca Kleefisch’s unblinking death stare