Ethics

The Crazy and the Even Crazier

By Ed Brayton

Exactly how far out on the lunatic fringe do you have to be to think that Rep. Steve King of Iowa, who is Michelle Bachmann's prom date in the land of Wingnuttia, is too moderate when it comes to gay marriage? This is the man, after all, who declared that after the Iowa Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay marriage, he feared his state would become a "gay Mecca" and since then has been working to get a constitutional amendment to overturn the ruling.

But nope, that's not far enough for the religious right in Iowa -- these are, after all, the folks who actually nominated Pat Robertson for president in 1988 -- because King doesn't agree with them that government employees in that state should just ignore the Supreme Court ruling:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 04, 2009 (boomark / email).