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Thank you, LGBTQnation. I also noticed a bit of... oddness in this guy's testimony, but not quite the SAME bit of oddness. What I noticed was an absurd attempt to label as bigots those supporting passage of a bill (SB 6239) that would legalize same-sex marriage, expand civil unions, and extend various benefits to qualifying domestic partnerships in Washington state.

Give the first video link in this article a listen.

Did you catch it? He was all tangled up in grammatically clumsy, repeatedly stacking clauses, his basic point being as follows: those who support this Bill are "just as bigoted" as the people fighting against it. Apparently, this is because the Bill's supporters are "bigoted" against God's sense of fairness. Seriously. Listen to it again. Read along in the transcript as you do. I promise I'm not constructing a straw man argument here.

Yeah.

Just for clarity: this Hutcherson guy says that, since the Bill's proponents think it is "narrow minded", bigoted and unloving to limit marriage to one man and one woman, then it is EQUALLY "narrow minded", bigoted, and unloving to EXPAND our definitions, making them more inclusive, and providing substantially the same legal and financial benefits to legal consenting adults who wish to commit to one another, but whose genitals happen to match. And what could possibly be the cause for such Escher-like mental confusion? Well, God of course. The one man, one woman thing is how God sees to it that it is "fair", as if we are supposed to sit here and even tacitly acknowledge the blatant unconstitutionality of that sentiment.

Hey, Hutcherson! One question for you: what would your testimony have sounded like back in the anti-miscegenation days? Would it have been somehow equally unjust to advocate either FOR or AGAINST legalizing interracial marriage? Didn't God know better what was "fair" and what wasn't? Are there not numerous proscriptions in the Old Testament to the effect of not blending things like race (let alone dissimilar fabrics, FFS)? As an African American, do you think you might have any special insights there?

Or maybe he's reading this blog right now, but because he lives in Oppositeland, my article has morphed into a pleasant treatise on how it is possible to unscramble and re-shell eggs if you close your eyes REALLY hard while thinking about ice flowing uphill.