As marriage equality continues to sweep across the country, the most virulently anti-gay activists (especially the grifters) are becoming more and more desperate.
Kansas Governor Brownback has instructed state officials not to recognize same-sex marriages.
Texas and South Carolina legislators are considering legislating the same thing. And, that's not all.
Some of you may recall that Randy Thomasson was a leader in the "Yes On 8" campaign for Protect Marriage running up to the election that passed Prop 8 in California in 2008. Well, he is still trying to stop marriage equality ... this time in southern conservative GOP-lead states.
Anti-LGBT activist Randy Thomasson (leader of the right wing group Save California) has a message for conservative GOP governors across America: call out the national guard to stop marriages of same-sex couples.
From Right Wing Watch:
Thomasson, who leads the right-wing group Save California, detailed his proposal last week in a memo [PDF] to “pro-family leaders concerned about marriage”
Each governor pledges themselves to “support and defend” the plain words of their state constitution, including, in morally conservative states, the definition of marriage as only for a man and a woman. Governors raise their right hand and publicly promise to “faithfully execute” (or carry out) these written laws, as commanded by their state constitutions.
Each governor also has an administration that serves his/her pleasure that is in charge of the state’s marriage forms (licenses and applications) that county clerks use.
And each governor is authorized to call out his/her state's militia or National Guard to enforce written laws and maintain public order against foreign and domestic enemies.
In view of the current crisis on marriage, a constitutional governor can and should do the following:
• Announce he took an oath to obey the constitution, not to obey a judge’s unconstitutional opinion.
• Announce that no homosexual “marriage” licenses will be issues, and no county clerk is permitted to issue marriage licenses to anyone other than a qualified man and woman.
• Utilize the support of the state attorney general (if that constitutional officer is willing to stand alongside) or use the state’s National Guard to enforce the law at county clerk’s offices. (emphasis added)
JMG has a list of things or events that Thomasson has criticized or even melted down over.
Last year Thomasson melted down over the Harvey Milk stamp, calling Milk a "homosexual predator of teens." Last Valentine's Day he declared that the day was "for straight couples only." On New Year's Day 2014 Thomasson called for anti-gay activists to boo the gay couple getting married on a Rose Bowl Parade float. In 2013 Thomasson called on California's county clerks to defy the Supreme Court on Prop 8. Also in 2013 Thomasson called for Christian parents to keep their kids home on the Day Of Silence. In 2012 Thomasson had a hissy fit over the renaming of a San Diego street for Harvey Milk. In 2011 Save California head Randy Thomasson claimed that Harvey Milk Day would "unleash a tsunami of perversity" that would include "mock gay weddings" at public schools. In 2010 Thomasson claimed that Harvey Milk Day would include "cross-dressing contests" and that Milk endorsed pedophilia. In 2009 Thomasson claimed that Harvey Milk Day would mean that California had passed Massachusetts in the "sexual indoctrination of children."
Not content to allow anyone to be any more anti-gay than himself, Peter Labarbara chimed in and made similar comments on WND.
From Right Wing Watch:
Some state governors, such as Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, have indicated they will file further appeals to block the same-sex marriage rulings of federal judges. But Thomasson says this is a weak response.
“They’re doing an appeal in Mississippi, but their attorney general there has said that these same-sex marriages will begin happening if their appeal to higher courts is not successful,” Thomasson said. “The governor is supposed to be a strong Christian man, so what is he going to do? Is he really going to protect marriage? As governor, he’s the head of the Mississippi National Guard. He can refuse to alter marriage certificates. He can threaten to sue county clerks for violating the state Constitution on man-woman marriage.”
LaBarbera believes it would be politically popular for a governor to push the issue and defy the federal courts as having no authority over states’ rights to regulate marriage.
“Standing up to these courts would, I think, be good politics on the right. I would love to see it happen,” he told WND. “It’s a difference between being a politician and being a statesman. I think if someone stood up to the homosexual lobby and the courts, they would achieve hero status. We keep waiting for someone and it, unfortunately, never happens. I mean, 76 percent of the people voting can be wiped out by a single federal court decision?”
Labarbara went on to say that it will be the children who suffer as a result if these governors do not defy these rogue federal judges, because it will be impressionable young boys and girls who will be told that they can have a same-sex marriage for themselves.
How awful that young boys and girls might find out that they can actually (proudly) be who they really are.
I believe state officials take a vow to uphold the US Constitution as well, for which the Fourteenth Amendment is a part. I'm sure some of these governors want to be considered in history books in the same way as George Wallace.