Here's an eye-rolling moment from the Maryland legislature's debate over marriage equality (emphasis added, and almost up there with Newt Gingrich's Hispanic outreach effort, a website called "Americano"):
Delegate Neil Parrott, R-Washington, who criticized the bill for changing the definition of marriage, briefly made what he described as a tongue-in-cheek amendment to legalize incest.
"I don't see any problem with incest in marriage if we are going to go ahead and allow something that hasn't been allowed ever in all of human history by allowing one man to marry another man or a woman to marry a woman," Parrott said, before withdrawing the amendment. "I think this is the same type of thing that we're talking about."
Republicans tried to amend the bill several times on Friday.
"I don't see any problem with incest in marriage if we are going to go ahead and allow something that hasn't been allowed ever in all of human history by allowing one man to marry another man or a woman to marry a woman," Parrott said, before withdrawing the amendment. "I think this is the same type of thing that we're talking about."
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Read Senate Bill 116: http://mlis.state.md.us/2011rs/billfile/SB0116.htm
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