If you’re going to make history, probably being booked for making multiple attempts at marrying an inanimate object — in this case, a macbook — is probably not the kind of history you’d like to have as your calling card.
For Chris Sevier, who went from an advocate for marrying digital devices to a furious anti-LGBTQ advocate, making embarrassing history seems to be a hobby.
From the Kansas City Star:
Missouri Senate Administrator Patrick Baker sent out an email early Thursday morning to the entire senate and staff with the subject line “security concern” and a picture of Sevier. He said two Senate offices and one in the House of Representatives reported uncomfortable meetings with the former Tennessee lawyer.
He did not specify when the meetings took place.
“While the individual has not threatened anyone in the building, staff have described these interactions as jittery and/or suspicious,” the email read. “Please remember at any time if find you yourself in a situation which you feel uncomfortable or threatened, in the least, please take immediate steps to notify Capitol Police.”
Lawmakers who saw Sevier told The Star he introduced himself as someone from the “defacto attorney general’s office” and wore a suit tucked into combat boots.
Despite this strange behavior — and by strange I mean pretending to be an attorney from the State Attorney General’s office, wearing combat boots with a suit that he tucked in, his disbarment, and oh, that arrest regarding a long term love affair with hard disks, Sevier has also been surprisingly effective.
In several states, Sevier, whose real-life experiences seem like they should be the script for the next Borat movie, managed to get legislators to put forward his harsh anti-LGBTQ legislation which referred to parody marriages and implied that being LGBTQ may include participation and membership in a secret society with a daily guide they follow and worshipping instructions.
That didn’t stop Kansas from taking him up on his legislation.
The Kansas City Star asked legislators who backed the proposals:
But most recently, Sevier has been pushing his anti-porn, anti-gay legislation in states from Virginia to Hawaii. Last week, Sevier was found to be behind six bills in the Kansas House.
Kansas Rep. Randy Garber, R-Sabetha, met with Sevier and agreed to introduce the bills.
“People do things they shouldn’t do and regret it later,” Garber said when asked about Sevier’s reputation. “But I try not to judge people on what’s happened in their past.”
For Representative Garber, the disclosure that Sevier is a lying creep with weird ideas about marriages weren’t disqualifying. Because, after all, there seems to be some shared belief. About, you know, judging gay people. In the past, present and future.