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Related: About this forumCraziest Republican Wisconsin candidate of the Day: Karen Mueller -also vile!
She is the @WisGOP candidate running against Ron Kind (D).
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Friday, June 27, 2014
Craziest Republican of the Day: Karen Mueller
By Michael J.W. Stickings
......Karen Mueller, an Eau Claire attorney whose practice has focused on opposing abortion and defending those "discriminated against and harassed in the workplace, the school, college and/or the public square because of their faith," is one of three Republican candidates seeking to challenge Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI). At a Republican Party of Monroe County candidate forum, she denounced the ruling and warned that it would create a slippery slope.
According to the Tomah Journal, Mueller said that the ruling might set a precedent that any two people can marry: "We've got, for instance, two sisters, and these two sisters want to get married. They love each other. They are committed to each other. They want to spend the rest of their life together." Lawyers, Mueller explained, would be able to argue "'We can just do away with that state law the same way we did away with sodomy laws,'" noting that "once you do away with that, you reveal what is really going on here."
Mueller also suggested that the court's ruling will be overturned on appeal because the state's ban is not really discriminatory against gay and lesbian citizens. "They can get married. They just can't get married to each other," she argued......
randys1
(16,286 posts)mokawanis
(4,440 posts)that intelligent and educated people can be prejudiced and hateful. That last line - "They can get married. They just can't get married to each other" - is really a disgusting thing to say.
Lefta Dissenter
(6,622 posts)Because if I think what you want to do is icky, then it should be illegal.
dembotoz
(16,802 posts)so vile and evil.
guess they would say the same about us.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Some choices we have.
BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)Fuck these people. Jesus. Unfortunately, Jeremy Irons said something similar which downgraded my opinion of him to sub zero levels.