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J.D. Hayworth: 'You could marry your horse'
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Posted on 03/15/2010 9:57:33 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

J.D. Hayworth: 'You could marry your horse'

By ANDY BARR | 3/15/10 12:07 PM EDT

Former Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.) said Sunday that the expansion of state laws allowing gay marriage could lead to people marrying horses.

Hayworth, during an interview with an Orlando, Fla., radio station explained: "You see, the Massachusetts Supreme Court, when it started this move toward same-sex marriage, actually defined marriage - now get this - it defined marriage as simply, 'the establishment of intimacy.'"

"Now how dangerous is that?" asked Hayworth, who is challenging Sen. John McCain from the right in Arizona's GOP Senate primary.

"I mean, I don't mean to be absurd about it, but I guess I can make the point of absurdity with an absurd point," he continued. "I guess that would mean if you really had affection for your horse, I guess you could marry your horse."

The former Republican congressman then insisted that the "only way" to prevent men from marrying horses is to create a federal marriage amendment. Hayworth noted that he supports such an amendment.

(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: animals4romney; arizona; bestiality; culturewar; hayworth; homosexualagenda; jdhayworth; marriage; marriagelaws; mccain; peta; romney; romneymarriage; samesexmarriage; sexpositiveagenda; unbiblicalmarriage; zoophilia
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To: autumnraine
I hate it when people make the case against gay marraige with ridiculous arguments like this. It just looks stupid.

I have to disagree. There was a time when the idea of two people of the same gender getting married would have been considered a "ridiculous argument" and would have "looked stupid". You appear to have accepted some of the mainstream point of view on this topic.

81 posted on 03/15/2010 10:59:34 AM PDT by TheDon
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To: BenKenobi

“I’m 100 percent behind Hayworth and his argument here.”

The only people who object are McCain fans and part of the squatter support squad. Amnesty is what this is all about.


82 posted on 03/15/2010 11:00:12 AM PDT by AuntB (WE are NOT a nation of immigrants! We're a nation of Americans! http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/)
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To: Sub-Driver

J.D., it might be best if you refrain from using the absurd to make a point...stick with facts...what a stupid statement...magritte


83 posted on 03/15/2010 11:02:11 AM PDT by magritte (There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself "Do trousers matter?")
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To: Jack Hydrazine

Think how far this issue has come since the mid 70’s when homosexuality was a defined mental illness. The saying that the inmates are running the asylum is more true than we realize.


84 posted on 03/15/2010 11:07:17 AM PDT by CajunConservative (Shut Up Mary!)
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To: autumnraine

I think you missed his point. Establishment of intimacy is too braod and could be applied to anything, therfore it is bad law.


85 posted on 03/15/2010 11:08:38 AM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Calling all Son's of Liberty)
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To: CajunConservative

The criminally insane located in the District of Criminals.


86 posted on 03/15/2010 11:10:53 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine
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To: eeriegeno

Damn, your right. there is a horse in there.


87 posted on 03/15/2010 11:14:18 AM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Calling all Son's of Liberty)
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To: OldDeckHand

>>”PS — Marriage is not delegated to the federal government in Federal Constitution, therefore it must be either the state’s or the people’s power.”
>
>Education is not delegated to the federal government in the US Constitution, either. But, I do recall some decisions with names like Brown v. Board of Education.

Irrelevant. Despite the “legal institution’s” regard for ‘precedence’ it is NOT a logically valid premise. If it was, then Capital Punishment would be unjustifiable because an innocent man was once put to death [Jesus].

>If you’re expecting a liberal court to show judicial restraint based on the 10th, you’re going to be disappointed, every time.

I said nothing about “judicial restraint” I _DID_ however ask for a logical justification.


88 posted on 03/15/2010 11:14:58 AM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: Sub-Driver

horse and marriage
horse and marriage
go together like a love and carriage

waitaminnit


89 posted on 03/15/2010 11:24:05 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
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To: OneWingedShark
"Irrelevant"

The Supreme Court ruling on a matter (education) that, according to the 10th Amendment, should clearly be left to the states, is irrelevant?

If the Supreme Court will strike state laws regarding education (and it has, on numerous occasions), it will strike state law regarding marriage, depending on the makeup of the Court.

90 posted on 03/15/2010 11:24:42 AM PDT by OldDeckHand
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To: Sybeck1
“There was probably many common law marriages like this in the 19th century.”

Not quite, but I have heard of something similar in Wyoming. Beautiful Wyoming, where the men are men and the women scarce and the sheep are scared.
Maybe that is what he meant.

91 posted on 03/15/2010 11:38:11 AM PDT by Tupelo
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To: autumnraine

“I hate it when people make the case against gay marraige with ridiculous arguments like this. It just looks stupid.”

Such things have occurred in open marriage states already. It is not ridiculous because it is real.


92 posted on 03/15/2010 11:48:49 AM PDT by chooseascreennamepat
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To: autumnraine

Well, “gay marriage” is stupid(at *best*).


93 posted on 03/15/2010 11:53:38 AM PDT by liberalism is suicide (Communism,fascism-no matter how you slice socialism, its still baloney)
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To: autumnraine
I hate it when people make the case against gay marraige with ridiculous arguments like this. It just looks stupid.

Not a stupid argument at all

British Woman Marries Dolphin

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,180478,00.html

94 posted on 03/15/2010 12:01:21 PM PDT by Charlespg
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To: OldDeckHand

I agree with Justice Scalia in his dissent of Lawrence v. Texas that the Supreme court has eroded the ability of the government to legislate moral behavior through its expansion of an implied right to privacy.

Left unchecked the “right to privacy”, which legalized abortion and sodomy, will eventually give us gay marriage and polygamy.

Any state (New Hampshire, Connecticut, Iowa, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Washington, D.C.) that legalizes homosexual marriage should immediately be faced with a slew of pro-polygamy lawsuits based on the exact same legal arguments. The fight for traditional marriage would best be fought united rather than incrementally.


95 posted on 03/15/2010 12:06:17 PM PDT by RC51
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To: Sub-Driver

96 posted on 03/15/2010 12:07:15 PM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic; All

I just got my census form today. What a bunch of garbage. For those who don’t have it yet, it is all about RACE and nothing else. And the race questions start by trying to nail down your hispanic connections. Unbelievable.

I thought we are supposed to be a color-blind society. What happened?

Oh yes. They also want to know if my house has a mortgage, or if it is free and clear. THey probably want to know if they can grab it in a Kelo move, thinking that if I own it free and clear I won’t have a bank standing behind me should the govt. want my land.


97 posted on 03/15/2010 12:13:34 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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To: Jack Hydrazine

The whole lot of them need some major anti-psychotic meds, especially the Narcissist in Chief.


98 posted on 03/15/2010 12:17:58 PM PDT by CajunConservative (Shut Up Mary!)
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To: Sub-Driver

In the old days, a good horse was worth a lot more than a good wife... and a good pack mule was worth twice its weight in gold..

or so I hear. ;-)

Go JD!


99 posted on 03/15/2010 12:48:46 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Chuck DeVore - CA Senator. Believe.)
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To: stormer

Young lady, ever think maybe Sarah Jessica Parker doesn't LIKE being kissed on the nose??

100 posted on 03/15/2010 1:06:30 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Glad to see Demonic Unhinged (DU) highlights and attacks my FR comments!)
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