Ethics

Loony Legislator Update: Buttars Regains Top Spot

By Ed Brayton

As my longtime readers know, I have an informal running contest going for the title of the looniest state legislator in the country. It began with Gerald Allen in Alabama submitting a bill to ban all books by and about gay people from the entire state. Then came Warren Chisum sending a memo to all of his colleagues in the Texas legislature urging them to visit fixedearth.com, a geocentrist site that not only claims that Galileo and Copernicus were wrong but that evolution is a Jewish plot to destroy Christ. And we can't forget Sally Kern of Oklahoma, who has been on quite a roll lately herself. But Chris Buttars of Utah has apparently been reading my blog and knows that Kern threatens to knock him off the pedestal, so he is redoubling his efforts to say egregiously idiotic things. Here's the latest:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on February 19, 2009 (boomark / email).