assholeofday:Greg Abbott, Asshole of the Day for October 14, 2014by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat
assholeofday:Greg Abbott, Asshole of the Day for October 14, 2014by TeaPartyCat (Follow @TeaPartyCat)After the Supreme Court’s recent decision to let stand the Circuit Court rulings allowing gay marriage, the writing is on the wall. Now some states have decided to give up the fight— to stop wasting money and time on a losing cause and grudgingly just allow gays to have full marriage rights in their state, including recognizing gay marriages that happened elsewhere. That’s what Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker did, and Walker is no friend to gays.But not everyone is ready to give up the fight. Down in Texas, Attorney General and GOP nominee for governor Greg Abbott is still grasping at straws for reasons to deny gay couples the rights he himself enjoys:“First, Texas’s marriage laws are rationally related to the State’s interest in encouraging couples to produce new offspring, which are needed to ensure economic growth and the survival of the human race,” Abbott wrote.“Second, Texas’s marriage laws are rationally related to the State’s interest in reducing unplanned out-of-wedlock births. By channeling procreative heterosexual intercourse into marriage, Texas’s marriage laws reduce unplanned out-of-wedlock births and the costs that those births impose on society. Recognizing same-sex marriage does not advance this interest because same-sex unions do not result in pregnancy.”So Texas only has incentives and special treatment for marriage to encourage offspring and to avoid out-of-wedlock births. That’s his argument.But of course that’s just total bullshit. How do I know? Because straight couples in their 70s get to get married even though there is zero chance that a pregnancy will occur. But Texas let’s them get married, but not gay couples still young enough to bear children.And, we should point out, Greg Abbott has also defended all the crazy Texas anti-abortion laws, and for all the moralizing about out-of-wedlock births with regards to gay marriage, they certainly prefer it to letting an unmarried woman get an abortion.So, for pretending that Texas marriage laws are all about procreation and out-of-wedlock births, and not about discriminating against gays, Greg Abbott is Asshole of the Day.It is Greg Abbott’s second time as Asshole of the Day. His previous win was for justifying a racist voter ID law based on a case it wouldn’t actually prevent.Full story: LGBTQ Nation. -- source link