Dan Savage may need to come up with a definition for “corbett” that is as disgusting as his definition of “santorum,” because our esteemed governor has gone full-little-Ricky.
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett (R) compared gay marriage to incest between siblings Friday during an appearance on a morning news show in Harrisburg.
The governor was speaking about same-sex marriage on WHP-TV when one of the anchors asked about a statement administration lawyers had made in a court filing, comparing the marriage of gay couples to the marriage of children because neither can legally marry in the state.
“It was an inappropriate analogy, you know,” Corbett said, according to the Associated Press. “I think a much better analogy would have been brother and sister, don’t you?”
Actually, neither analogy is particularly good. Children cannot get married because they are not mature enough to make that kind of life decision, and siblings cannot marry because their children would have an unacceptable risk of birth defects or congenital disease. Gay people can’t get married because society has traditionally frowned on homosexual behavior. The three taboos are quite distinct in their rationale. Children haven’t become more mature and there has been no diminishment of the heath risks to the offspring of incest, but our understanding of homosexuality has evolved and expanded considerably.
I’d also like to note that, although Corbett didn’t mention it specifically, dogs are no more sexually attractive today than they were when Eisenhower was our president.
