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Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear stupidly defends the state's same-sex marriage ban

While it's typically the far right-wing politicians whom I criticize for their anti-gay remarks, once in a while, I'll come across a Democratic politician who makes similar remarks and I'll criticize him (or her) all the same. That's indeed what happened when Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear made the following comment in a brief filed for the Supreme Court with regard to the state's same-sex marriage ban: "Kentucky's marriage laws treat homosexuals and heterosexuals the same and are facially neutral. Men and women, whether heterosexual or homosexual, are free to marry persons of the opposite sex under Kentucky law, and men and women, whether heterosexual or homosexual, cannot marry persons of the same sex under Kentucky law." Governor Beshear deserves a standing ovation of the slow-clap variety for that ridiculous statement. When reading it over again, I can hear Chris Tucker's character from the Rush Hour series, looking at the Kentucky governo...