WI GOP Candidate Warns Gay Marriage Means ‘Two Sisters’ Could Marry

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A Wisconsin Republican running in the race for the state’s third Congressional district warned that the recent ruling striking down the state’s same-sex marriage ban might lead to marriages between siblings.

“We’ve got, for instance, two sisters, and these two sisters want to get married. They love each other. They are committed to each other. They want to spend the rest of their life together,” attorney Karen Mueller, the candidate, said according to The Tomah Journal.

Mueller made the comments at a “Meet the Candidates” event. The event in Tomah was sponsored by the Monroe County Republican Party.

Their lawyers, Mueller continued, could argue that “‘We can just do away with that state law the same way we did away with sodomy laws.’ Once you do away with that, you reveal what is going on here.”

A ban on same-sex marriage isn’t a ban that stops gay people from getting married, Mueller said.

“That’s not true. They can get married,” Mueller said. “They just can’t get married to each other.”

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  1. Another genius tea bagger. Where do they find these people?

  2. They’re like little insects crawling out of the woodwork. And their brains are the size of those same insects.

  3. “‘We can just do away with that state law the same way we did away with sodomy laws.’ Once you do away with that, you reveal what is going on here.”

    That you guys spend way too much time thinking about the sex lives of other people?

  4. keep talking arsehole as we are paying attention

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