New GOP chief counsel on Senate Judiciary Committee linked gay marriage to pedophilia.

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/05/19/gop-counsel-marriage-pedophila/

New GOP chief counsel on Senate Judiciary Committee linked gay marriage to pedophilia.
By Matt Corley at 4:30 pm


Last week, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) named William Smith as the chief counsel for the GOP on the Senate Judiciary Committee. David Ingram of Legal Times reports today that Smith recently compared support for same-sex marriage to support for pedophilia. In a blog post that has now been taken down, Smith responded to former McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt’s speech to the Log Cabin Republicans by writing that he wondered “if next week Schmidt will take his close minded stump speech to a NAMBLA meeting. For those unfamiliar with NAMBLA, the acronym is for North American Man Boy Love Association.” Smith also compared same-sex marriage to bestiality. Neither he nor Sessions responded to Legal Times.

[pleah]

1. !?

:wow: WT....

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Lovely

[texastoast]

3. He's a internalized homophobe

All the folks who are so worried what two consenting adults do in private are generally quite titillated and guilty about it all. They are really, really screwed up.

[Chemisse]

4. That is disgusting

How low will they stoop to rile up their right-wing Neanderthal base?

[JohnnyLib2]

5. Playing to the ignorance and fears.

Glad to help circulate this and hopefully stop that sort of "counsel."

[The Doctor.]

6. What the hell is wrong with these people.

Their historical counterparts said the same thing about interracial marriage. It was akin to 'bestiality'.

[starroute]

7. Sessions is bad news every which way

Don't lose sight of that in the flap over the guy he named. Sessions is the one who chose him.