Discussion: South Dakota Woman Says Clerk Compared Gay Marriage To Beastiality

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Also known as- Clerk gets caught saying something wrong and tries to pass off lame excuse to get out of trouble.

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According to KSFY, the clerk told Nelson that there had been a
miscommunication, and the clerk had been talking about her love for her
dog, not the Supreme Court’s decision.

Aha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha —gasp-- That’s pretty thin there Pam.

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Hmm, as a general rule my dog is smarter, friendlier, and more compassionate than most conservatives; so maybe she’s trying to be complimentary?

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This is yet another conservative admitting that civil unions were not an adequate substitute for marriage.

I don’t recall anyone talking about forming civil unions with their pets or other animal of choice when same-sex couples were trying to get at least some of the legal rights of marriage.

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Tierney, dear—there is no such word as “beastiality.”
The correct term is “bestiality.”

TPM----hire a damned proofreader!!!

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A woman waiting in line in the clerk’s office in Sioux Falls, South Dakota – one of the states where same-sex marriage wasn’t legal until Friday’s ruling – says she overheard the clerk comparing gay marriage to beastiality

It’s “bestiality”, not “beastiality.” The fact that most Americans mispronounce it no reason to also misspell it.

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Ohhhh… so the clerk was talking about her own bestiality?

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“you can’t compare beastiality with two consenting adults getting married – they’re not the same thing.”

It’s that extra chromosome on which conservatism resides, dear. It prevents the poor little trisomes from sensing irony, dulls all self-awareness and renders them entirely incapable of making accurate analogies.

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LOL…so she was talking about screwing her pooch, got it. LOL

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Thought is free. Speech is not free when I’m paying your salary and you’re on the clock.

If you don’t like working in a place where same-sex couples get marriage licenses, get a new job.

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Struck a cord, you say? Like, an electrical cord?

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Or use spell check.

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What makes these conservatives think their pets would consent to marry them, anyway?

The pets are looking for something like this:

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“Her reaction to that was ‘well apparently I’m just going to marry my dog, because we can just marry whoever we want anymore,’”

Has the dog been consulted on this? I doubt (s)he would go for it.

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According to KSFY, the clerk told Nelson that there had been a miscommunication, and the clerk had been talking about her love for her dog, not the Supreme Court’s decision.

Ralph Kramden, were you bad-mouthing gay marriage again?
Homina-homina-homina!

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her own bestie

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Santorum,that you?

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The clerk is simply repeating a rightwing media meme and has no mind of her own. She is likely to be suffering from the Dunning-Kruger Effect, making her both ignorant and pitiable.

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‘well apparently I’m just going to marry my dog, because we can just marry whoever we want anymore,’

From her comment, I’m assuming the clerk isn’t gay, which tells me she’s speaking to her knowledge, which must be based on her (ahem) relationship with her dog. Remember, love your dog, don’t LOVE your dog.