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Sue Everhart, chairwoman of the Georgia Republican Party, told the Marietta Daily Journal in a story published Saturday that once gay nuptials are legally permitted, there will be nothing to stop a straight person from exploiting the system in order to claim marital benefits.
“You may be as straight as an arrow, and you may have a friend that is as straight as an arrow,” Everhart said. “Say you had a great job with the government where you had this wonderful health plan. I mean, what would prohibit you from saying that you’re gay, and y’all get married and still live as separate, but you get all the benefits? I just see so much abuse in this it’s unreal. I believe a husband and a wife should be a man and a woman, the benefits should be for a man and a woman. There is no way that this is about equality. To me, it’s all about a free ride.”
Everhart also expressed a distaste for homosexuality, which she argued is unnatural.
“Lord, I’m going to get in trouble over this, but it is not natural for two women or two men to be married,” Everhart said. “If it was natural, they would have the equipment to have a sexual relationship.”
Wait a minute. Wasn't this the plot to an Adam Sandler movie?
Yes, yes it was.
I put off posting this yesterday because I was convinced that it must be an April Fool's joke. But nope, this actually how crazy the Republican leaderhsip is in Georgia.
By the way on that whole not having the equipment for a sexual relationship? Yeah, pretty sure this woman does not have a clear understanding of gay sex. Nor the advancements that science has made in the field of sexual accoutrements.
Not to mention that, shocking, a man AND a woman could already get a pretend marriage...
ReplyDeleteAnd there is NO way to test for it.
DeleteWe already allow "non-procreative" and non-sexual couples to marry. Or does this stupid, old nosy harridan salivate at the though that thinks she should be able to get into other people's bedrooms?
What a pervert.
Hmmm, so whats stopping men and women friends from doing that too.... Nothing you dumb idiot! People in the military do it all the time for the benefits.
ReplyDeleteSome people need their heads shaken
Does the repub. party actively recruit these wierd people, or are they just naturally attracted to the rest of the below average intellectual party? The repub. party not only has many, many more nutty people than the dems. but they promote them, like Bachamm, Palin etc. The democratic party filters them out before they can make asses of themselves like this one just did. If the repubs. want to "change their message" it will be much more difficult than they thought with people like this woman in their ranks.
ReplyDeleteAnd, well, this IS Georgia!
DeleteRight, because there is no saying "marriage of convenience" that would describe this happening among men and women for centuries.
ReplyDeleteIn many parts of the world throughout history, arranged marriage and marriages based on the joining of two ruling or economic powers were more common than marriages for love.
DeleteYes, many of those resulted in children, so the 'procreation' argument would still hold, I suppose, but many of them were purely for the expansion of power or fortune. In many cultures even today, marriages are still arranged for the purposes of combining families' wealth and power.
So Teh Gay have thousands of years of history to catch up on!
Some people just need to STFU already, between the pols as thermostats, the archaic racial slurs, and the full-on idiocy, the party is in fact the party of stupid.
ReplyDeleteShe's seen so much of it?? And just how??
ReplyDeleteOhforfuckssake.
ReplyDeleteSums it up perfectly!
DeleteOh I see! She wants to do the same thing to the LGBT community that the Repubes want to do to the voters.
ReplyDeleteShe wants to prevent ANYONE from marrying to stop one or two from "abusing" the system. You know, just like they wanted to stop millions from voting to prevent a tiny number of POSSIBLE abuse cases!
Makes sense to me!
NOT!
Or let millions of children go hungry and homeless because a few people game the safety net systems.
DeleteSame (il)logic.
I wonder what it is about Republican's that they always think of someone gaming the system? Hmm...
Delete11:20 -
DeleteWhat confuses me is how they constantly contradict themselves. They are always SO wound up about poor people getting a little money to feed their children (because they apparently aren't suffering enough to be worthy or are just plain lazy). They scream about some vague, unidentified member of Them getting something they (the Real 'Muricans) don't get and how it's so unfair.
And yet, at the same time, they support political candidates who are openly advocating raising their taxes to give more tax breaks to the wealthy and the corporations. For some reason, the Republicans think it's fine for rich people to get all sorts of free 'stuff' but we sure don't want those poor folks to be able to feed their kids, now do we!
How, in any kind of normal universe, does that kind of logic make any sense?
Guys, guys...By "sexual relationship," she means penis goes in vagina and potentially makes a baby. That's the only kind of sexual relationship to godbots.
ReplyDeleteAll the fun the rest of us are having? Not sex. Or deviant, abomination sex, depending on who you ask. But it totally makes sense if you try and force your mind to see it through the religion lens.
I am pretty sure it has to be face to face, too.
DeleteDo you suppose she gets the vapors just thinking about all this?
She clearly comes from the 'close your eyes and think of England' school of marital relations.
DeleteInteresting how a bio on her I just found mentions that she lives with her son. No husband.
I'm not sure if it is still on the books, but it used to be that in Massachusetts the only legal act was the missionary position. I had often wondered, though, that since spying on people having sex (Like a peeping tom?) was also illegal, how one could POSSIBLY be arrested for the "crime".
DeleteOh, that's easy! Confession under nagging and/or physical torture. Didn't Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" take place in Massachusetts?
DeleteWild Tortoise (turtles only do it doggy style or else their lungs may collapse when flipped over)
Leland,
DeleteI can't believe they made a law about that! That's insane.
That "science" has made in the field of sexual accoutrements? Shit, Jesse, archeologists have found dildos in ancient tombs.
ReplyDeleteSounds rusty.
DeleteI understand the new ones vibrate.
Makes me itch thinking about it. Or twitch.
DeleteAccording to Tea Party leaders in Arkansas, those things will break your teeth. And put an eye out if you mess with em. Because Satan.
"below average intellectual party?"
ReplyDeleteStop being PC, even Piyush Jindal called it the "stupid " party.
You can call me Bobby. Or Piyush. Or whatnot.
DeleteOr it's April first every day now. That could be it.
ReplyDeleteshe needs to have an orgasm.
ReplyDeleteSo it would seem.
DeleteSo sad.
ReplyDeleteApparently Mr. Everhart has never gotten a BJ from the wife.
Face it, it is much more acceptable to repubs. for them to pretend like McConnell, Craig and others. Marry women then go to their "aides" or total strangers for sex. Anyone actually think McConnell married for anything but convenience and to stop gossip? Now he does not care who knows, he cried on the floor of the Senate when his "aide" left to take a job a few blocks away. Someone in the know should expose these fakes, like Rove who divorced his wife of convenience as soon as W left the WH.
ReplyDeleteSo I guess, in her world, there's never been a sham heterosexual marriage? Hey Sue, Michele Bachmann would like to have a word with you...
ReplyDeleteExcellent point. However they did procreate so...
DeleteOlivia -
DeleteEeeewwww. You owe all of us some brain bleach.
Please don't make us imagine those kinds of images ever, ever again.
Thank you.
I don't see why she's so pissed that straight people could get gay married simply for the benefits when lots of straight people get straight married simply for the benefits.
ReplyDeleteGeorgia again? Here's another story of a town in Georgia that just MANDATED guns in all homes!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/01/nelson-georgia-family-protection-ordinance_n_2995657.html
Since the beginning of time people have married for all kinds of reasons....she is an idiot. Next the repubs will require a litmus test for marriage (of course, shotgun weddings will be exempt because they are a gift from god).
ReplyDeleteOh that's why they love them so much and were completely understanding of the Bristol situation.
DeleteHA HA HA HA HA!
ReplyDelete“Lord, I’m going to get in trouble over this, but it is not natural for two women or two men to be married,” Everhart said. “If it was natural, they would have the equipment to have a sexual relationship.”
You got that right, churchlady, The Lord's going to turn you into a salt lick, he made gay people in his own image.