Just when you think you're so jaded and world-weary that nothing that can happen in politics can possibly startle you anymore, along comes Tamara Scott, new Iowa co-chair of Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign:
She claimed that the future of America and people's potential to enter Heaven would be in jeopardy if marriage equality remains the law of the land, telling supporters, “This is a battle for your future as Americans, for your future as a society and for your future someday when you stand before the Throne.”
One reason Scott said that voters should oppose marriage equality for gay and lesbian couples is that it would open the door for polyamory and legalizing marriages between people and inanimate objects. While speaking with Bob Vander Plaats, the head of The Family Leader, Scott warned that gay rights will lead to people marrying objects like the Eiffel Tower:
Now, a certain amount of slippery-slope arguing is to be expected when the culture shifts gears, and some of it even raises valid issues. Legalizing gay marriage, for example, will tend to increase the tolerance of arrangements such as polygamy and, yes, polyandry. How soon and how bad a thing that is or isn't are interesting discussions to have.
But should we really fear an increase in "object marriages"? Most of those seem to be by people with a warped sense of humor or else people somewhere deep in serious mental illness, whose number do not tend to increase or decrease with societal trends. And if I'm reading this right, if you marry the Eiffel Tower, I'm in danger of going straight to hell. That seems fundamentally unfair in a Fred Phelpsish "God kills our soldiers because he hates fags" sort of way.
