Michele Bachmann's Anti-Gay Marriage Logic Ignores Supreme Court Precedent

At a town hall meeting in Waverly, Iowa, on Wednesday, a high school student asked Michele Bachmann what she would do as president to support and protect the gay community. She responded with the twisted logic that gay Americans already have equal rights, because they are free to marry heterosexually just like anyone else, and that allowing same-sex marriage would actually be giving gay people "special rights."

"They can get married, but they abide by the same law as everyone else," she said. "They can marry a man if they're a woman or they can marry a woman if they're a man. ... They have the same opportunity under the law."

But actually, the Supreme Court rejected that logic nearly 45 years ago.

In the 1967 Loving v. Virginia case, the state of Virginia argued that its anti-miscegenation law did not violate the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment because the law was "equally applied," meaning that nobody was allowed to marry someone of the opposite race, and whites and blacks who violated the law received identical punishments.

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/260695/20111203/michele-bachmann-s-anti-gay-marriage-logic.htm

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But I am willing to accept you despite whatever your reasons you have for being ignorant.

Such a shame.