Jon Stewart on Tuesday was baffled that county clerks in Florida refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses after a court overturned the state’s ban on gay marriage.
“Come on guys, you live in a state where at any moment there could be a hurricane going on, why are you so focused on gay people tying the knot?” the host of “The Daily Show” asked.
The only rational response was to roll a news montage of “Florida man” antics from the Sunshine State.
“Let’s talk about some of the fine citizens you are trying to protect from the blight of legal same sex marriage,” Stewart said, and the parade of clips began:
First, a Florida man who attempted to trade an alligator for beer. Next, a woman who set a man’s care on fire after he refused to buy her a McFlurry from McDonalds, and a man who choked to death on a cockroach. Finally, a man who allegedly beat his employees with a lizard.
Wrapping things up, Stewart issued a final piece of advice to the state.
Florida,” he said, “you don’t get to judge others when your state motto is, ‘If Darwin was right, we wouldn’t be here.'”
Watch the clip, courtesy of Comedy Central:
Your story is not accurate. As far as I know, no county has “refused to issue same-sex marriage licenses,” which would be in direct violation of the court order. What happened is that a few have now stopped performing the marriage ceremony, an optional service most county clerk offices offer, for couples straight or gay, in order to avoid actually performing any same-sex marriages. They must still issue the marriage license however.
Stewart is so right about Florida. It is full of tea bag Cretans, bigots, racist, and it starts in Tallahassee with Voldemort.
Florida is basically Mississippi with better beaches and Disney World.
Poor Senator Rubio. He really wants to be President, but he’s trapped in Rightwingistan, where you have to start by saying horrible things, then finish by pretending you didn’t say them. It ends in things like him trying to say he wants to save fast food worker’s jobs, but ends up insulting them.
I’m pretty sure if you just guaranteed the fast food workers a living wage, they would not care much if you insulted them once in a while. And the days when we order with an actual person are already disappearing. The Taco Bell app where you order from your phone is not a cute marketing gag. It’s the future.