Hayworth Adds Horses to GOP's "Do Not Marry" List
In Arizona, conservative radio host and former Congressman J.D. Hayworth is challenging Senator John McCain in the upcoming GOP primary. As it turns out, Hayworth is also battling fellow Republicans Rick Santorum and John Cornyn for the most ridiculous comparison of bestiality and same-sex marriage.
Discussing the 2003 ruling by the Massachusetts Supreme Court establishing marriage equality in the Bay State, Hayworth told an Orlando radio show (audio here):
"I mean, I don't mean to be absurd about it, but I guess I can make the point of absurdity with an absurd point. I guess that would mean if you really had affection for your horse, I guess you could marry your horse."
Of course, former Pennsylvania Republican Senator Rick Santorum beat Hayworth to the punch seven years ago. As the AP reported in April 2003, Santorum was worried that man's best friend might become man's best friend with benefits:
"In every society, the definition of marriage has not ever to my knowledge included homosexuality. That's not to pick on homosexuality. It's not, you know, man on child, man on dog, or whatever the case may be."
The startled AP reporter responded, "I'm sorry, I didn't think I was going to talk about "man on dog" with a United States senator, it's sort of freaking me out."
The freak out continued in July 2004. Advocating a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage in an address to the Heritage Foundation, Texas Senator John Cornyn declared that reptiles, too, needed protection:
"It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right...Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife."
Back in Arizona, Hayworth is running a surprisingly strong race against the man who led the Republican presidential ticket in 2008. Fueled by furious tea party supporters, J.D. Hayworth wants John McCain run out of town on the horse he rode in on. Just as long, that is, as he doesn't marry it.
never thought that the idea of "two consenting adults" was so hard to fathom
but we're talking about the g.o.p. here, so it's understandable, simply being able to comprehend facts and ideas are not necessary to be in the club