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Pat Leahy grills Trump judicial nominee: Do you think gay marriage is like marrying bacon?
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Posted on 11/15/2017 3:33:26 PM PST by Sub-Driver

Pat Leahy grills Trump judicial nominee: Do you think gay marriage is like marrying bacon?

AllahpunditPosted at 5:31 pm on November 15, 2017

This is so pitifully stupid. Either Democrats are desperate for attack lines against Texas Supreme Court Justice Don Willett, Trump’s nominee for the Fifth Circuit, or Leahy is so out of touch after 42 years in the Senate that he can’t recognize goofball humor when he sees it.

Here’s the genesis of Willett’s “controversial” bacon analogy:

I could support recognizing a constitutional right to marry bacon. pic.twitter.com/HKPW6tE4H6

— Justice Don Willett (@JusticeWillett) April 30, 2015

If you’re surprised to find a state supreme court justice tweeting jokes, you’ve never read Willett’s feed before. Take the opportunity to scroll through. He’s more famous for his social media habit than for his judicial opinions, although he’s a respected jurist. It’s unusual to see someone at the top of his profession tweeting so lightheartedly day after day, especially when that profession is as self-serious and culturally distant as the judiciary. But that’s Willett and he does it well, having collected more than 100,000 followers in the process. His Twitter avatar captures his sensibility perfectly — it’s an image of a judge in a cowboy hat riding the Twitter birdie icon rodeo-style. I wonder if part of the reason he landed on Trump’s judicial list is because POTUS respects a man with Twitter game.

The bacon tweet is perfectly in keeping with the day-to-day tone of Willett’s feed, or at least it was until he went quiet after being nominated to the federal bench so as not to run into needless controversies.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Vermont
KEYWORDS: 115th; abortion; bacon; brettkavanaugh; homosexualagenda; lgbt; libertarians; maga; medicalmarijuana; patrickleahy; scotus; trumpjudiciary; vermont; willett
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To: mojito

Unknown to me, BJ’s are sodomy in the UCMJ.


21 posted on 11/15/2017 4:14:50 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Sub-Driver

A marriage to bacon might last longer. Bacon doesn’t get “snippy”, or jealous, or any of those other human weaknesses.


22 posted on 11/15/2017 4:20:21 PM PST by Fireone (Lock Her Up! (and 100 of her accomplices))
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To: Sub-Driver

...Pat Leahy grills Trump judicial nominee: Do you think gay marriage is like marrying bacon?...

This is bizarre beyond description.


23 posted on 11/15/2017 4:24:41 PM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: x

Gay “marriage” is from Massachusetts.


24 posted on 11/15/2017 4:33:50 PM PST by Original Lurker
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s a joke, son... it’s a JOKE!!

(And so is Leahy.)


25 posted on 11/15/2017 4:34:49 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Sub-Driver

See how sacrosanct gay marriage has become. Completely illegal stretching back through distant past and only legal a few months, historically speaking.

He should have mentioned that he was only agreeing with Obama and Hillary.


26 posted on 11/15/2017 4:35:03 PM PST by odawg
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To: GOYAKLA

haha


27 posted on 11/15/2017 4:35:30 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Sub-Driver

I’m offended that noble bacon’s character has been soiled with homosexuality.


28 posted on 11/15/2017 4:36:53 PM PST by Rebelbase (The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.-- H.L. Mencken)
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To: Sub-Driver

“Well Senator, that analogy is meaningless to me, but I know that marriage is only between one man and one women”.

“Attempts to bastardize the definition don’t change the truth”.


29 posted on 11/15/2017 4:48:28 PM PST by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: Sub-Driver

[Do you think gay marriage is like marrying bacon?]

What a SICK, UNDIGNIFIED question to ask a judicial nominee.


30 posted on 11/15/2017 4:59:28 PM PST by stars & stripes forever (Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord. Psalm 33:12)
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To: stars & stripes forever

Proper response to the question: “Sen. Leahy, how long have you had dementia?”


31 posted on 11/15/2017 5:02:40 PM PST by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: Sub-Driver
Gay marriage is like marrying bacon? Huh?


32 posted on 11/15/2017 5:05:08 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Trump: Greatest POTUS of all time solely for preventing Satan from taking office.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

A mere six steps away..........


33 posted on 11/15/2017 5:05:39 PM PST by exit82 (The opposition has already been Trumped!)
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To: Sub-Driver

It certainly is after a sweaty workout.


34 posted on 11/15/2017 5:06:09 PM PST by fruser1
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To: Sub-Driver

No, Pat. Gay marriage is like fishing for elephants in the Bering Sea.


35 posted on 11/15/2017 5:13:09 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Sub-Driver
Leahy is another porker way past his sell-by date.
 
36 posted on 11/15/2017 5:14:32 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
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To: Sub-Driver

If I was before one of these committees attempting to be confirmed I’d say “To the democrat senators I say I will not answer any questions since I know you will never vote to confirm me. So why don’t we save a lot of time and stop the bull shit games.”


37 posted on 11/15/2017 5:25:20 PM PST by Terry Mross (Liver spots And blood thinners..)
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To: Sub-Driver

To state right up front, QUEER MARRIAGE IS A PERVERSION, and a sin against GOD.
Now my answer to any senator, congresscritter, or other government puke who would even ask me a question like that; SENATOR (or other), ARE YOU BATSHIT CRAZY?


38 posted on 11/15/2017 10:05:28 PM PST by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Wow, I thought I was reading the Onion for a second. Then I found out someone said something really stupid.


39 posted on 09/07/2018 4:17:35 AM PDT by Morpheus2009
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