Asshole of the Week

To be clear, Pennsylvania has banned same-sex marriage. So far, the courts have not done anything to put us on track with Connecticut or Iowa. So it is in a grand act of bigotry that State Senator Eichelberger held a rally in Hollidaysburg to announce his proposed amendment to the state constitution to "define marriage."

Of course, this whole endeavor could have the opposite effect of what Eichelberger intended; amendments to the state constitution must be voted on by the people of Pennsylvania. Maybe the people are less socially conservative than the Senator believes. Maybe Pennsylvania people are more awesome than California people. That would actually be neat.

In any case, Eichelberger's rally was creepily familiar, as he made Santorum-esque statements: "With the divorce rates reaching new highs, we see that children that are raised in homes where we don't have a man and a woman in the home, those children are more apt to do things such as get involved in alcohol, drugs, violence, abuse, all those kinds of issues. It becomes a very serious societal ill." Or, "Legalizing same-sex marriage would weaken it and lead little-by-little to other 'models' like polygamy and pedophilia."

Perhaps the Senator would care to make divorce illegal, or recall what he learned about logical fallacies in high school. Or that Santorum was not re-elected. Maybe when he eventually finds himself out of work, he can have a column at the Inquirer too.

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