Notes from Evil Bender

Kindly go fuck yourself:

Rep. Bernard Ayotte, a Republican, said he couldn’t support the legislation because it would provide legal protections to people whom he said suffered from hormonal imbalances causing same-sex attractions.

“By all indications, homosexuality in human beings seems to be generated by imbalances in the human body,” he said. “As legislators, it is important that we do not base our statutes on genetic aberrations.”

“All indications,” of course, means “shit he picked up from a guy hot on the trail of Obama’s REAL Indonesian/Kenyan/Muslim/Atheist birth certificate.” But really, someone who isn’t completely stupid should get into Ayotte’s ear and get him to clarity if he thinks homosexuality is a genetic defect or a hormonal imbalance. If he’s going to make embarrassing claims, he could at least keep them straight.

Not that it would do any good, because even if the science actually backed him, what difference would it make? If LGBT folks were genetically and hormonally different, would that make it okay to deny them equal protection under the law? (While I’m typing this, somewhere, a creationist is accusing all evolutionists of being eugenicists, no doubt.)

Also, hasn’t the argument from the far right traditionally been that being gay is a choice? What happened? Was that explanation for bigotry not polling well?

So what is your point, Mr. Ayotte? It couldn’t just be that you’re a bigot cloaking your bigotry in a veneer of pseudo-science, could it?

Ayotte added that his lack of support for the legislation shouldn’t be interpreted as discrimination against gay people.

He doesn’t want to discriminate against gay people, he just thinks they inferior and don’t deserve equal protection under the law. That clears that right up.