February 12, 2009 10:16 PM UTC

Getting Stupid With The Fringe

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• by: Colorado Pols

We got a rather shrill email this morning from religious right activist Mark Hotaling’s Christian Family Alliance of Colorado.

Two openly homosexual legislators are doing their part to payback millionaire homosexual activist Tim Gill by pushing a bill that will give tax-payer funded benefits to the homosexual partners of state employees.

Under the bill, Senate Bill 88, homosexual partners of state employees will be covered under their partner’s health and dental insurance.

Critics of the bill have voiced opposition to the legislation but the bill now faces another hurdle – an outright conflict of interest by the authors.

Under both Senate and House rules, legislators are not allowed to vote on or advance any legislation that they would directly financially benefit from and must publically [sp.–Pols] disclose the conflict of interest.

The bill sponsors, Senator Jennifer Viega and Representative Mark Ferrandino, are both openly homosexual and their “partners” would receive taxpayer funded healthcare as part of SB88.  Blatantly flaunting Colorado’s opposition to homosexual marriage, Ferrandino actually lists his “husband” on his State funded legislator website.

Uh, what? Somebody needs to run these kinds of accusations by a lawyer before they need one to defend against a libel charge. This is like saying a legislator can’t introduce a car insurance bill because they…wait for it…have car insurance! Or a legislator can’t introduce an education bill if they…have kids! No matter how you feel about the issue, this is about the silliest argument that could possibly be made.

The next silliest argument, of course, is blaming Tim Gill for everything they don’t like. Both Viega and Ferrandino live in comfortably-Democratic Denver districts that they could only lose if beaten in a primary. What does Tim Gill have to do with this again?

No worries though, all they need to do is throw in the word “homosexual” a couple of times and it no longer matters to their target audience if it’s complete bullshit.