Box Turtles, cell phones, and dogs. Oh My!

One of the blogs I visit almost daily is Box Turtle Bulletin. They are very good at checking the facts and digging into the scientific accuracy of the various anti-gay claims. The authors chose that name after a Fundie crusader said,

Now you must raise your children up in a world where the union of a man and a box turtle is on the same legal footing as a man and wife…

Opponents of gay marriage have insisted that if we allow gays to marry there is nothing to prevent a man from marrying such things as a dog, goat, cell phone, or robot (and those are just the ones I can think of off the top of my head). In reaction to the Iowa ruling here comes another from (Matt Barber of Liberty University School of Law):

It is no more discriminatory to disallow two men from marrying each other, than it is to prohibit a man from marrying his house plant.

This is sufficiently stupid that an author at BTB suggests his blog might change its name to "PansiesForPansies.com".

BTB has another article on gay marriage, noting how many of the key Supreme Court justices ruling in our favor in Massachusetts, California, Connecticut, and Iowa were appointed by Republicans. Lets elect more GOP legislators to make sure we don't get any more activist judges.