I love it when these idiots have to back peddle like hell when one of their kids announces they’re gay. Like Cheney. Shall the stoning be on the Capitol steps?
I believe that @thorninmud is right; this is getting really weird, even for the States. I remember the naked, brutal racism of Strom Thurmond, Jim Folsom, Ross Barnett and finally, George Wallace, in the face of successive victories of the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement. Their behaviours and speeches contained none of the the southern upper class veilances of the past, all the euphamisms had fallen away. They didn’t talk about the culluds anymore. They were talking about the niggras and all the despicable things they associated with that word. These new southern leaders were more vehement and crass than anything before them. They had to be. It was the last gasp of these mangy true believers, the lashing out of a diseased, fatally injured thing with it’s back against the wall.
I think that is what we are seeing here. And hopefully, other radical fundamentalist meddling in our laws will die just as miserably.