The recent and much welcome court decision striking down Wisconsin's gay marriage ban has thrown Republicans in the state into a quandary about what to do. Some have been reduced to issuing cheap threats. Some have basically thrown in the towel. (Please note, the former is not running for anything, while the latter is staring electoral oblivion in the face in 2016.) And in the case of the state's governor, he's trying desperately to avoid taking any position at all on the matter. (To be fair, the goggle-eyed homunculus {thank you, Charles Pierce} has a lot on his mind these days.)
But now, a new GOP stance on the matter has come to light. But it's not one the GOP probably wants known:
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.
Okay, that's definitely a new one. But unless the sisters in question are members of the
Lannister family, I don't think it's going to come up.
More reasoning from this genius:
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."
Yes, you can't marry the partner you love and want to spend your life with, but you can marry some random straight person and make your life and theirs miserable living a lie! It's win-win!
Needless to say, this candidate isn't going anywhere (the district she's running in is Ron Kind's). But her words are just another example of the ridiculous lengths Republicans are having to go to in order to argue against gay marriage. It's not on the level of "man on dog," "man on box turtle," or "man on horse," but you can't blame her for trying.