HARRISBURG, Pa.—During an interview broadcast yesterday on CBS 21 News in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Republican Governor Tom Corbett was asked by anchor person Sherry Christian about a statement made by his lawyers comparing the marriage of a gay couple to the marriage of a pair of twelve-year-olds.
Gov. Corbett, 64, who faces a tough re-election challenge next year, took a good healthy swing at that fat pitch and promptly fouled it off his right foot, shattering his overnight ratings.
“That was a poor analogy,” said the governor. “I think a much better analogy would have been a brother-sister marriage, don’t you?”
Such was Ms. Christian’s surprise that had she been pregnant, she might have suffered a spontaneous miscarriage.
“I’m gonna leave the comments to you and your team,” she finally replied.
Appearing puzzled, Gov. Corbett continued, “Let me put it another way. Same-sex marriage is tantamount to interspecies marriage or marriage with a corpse or marriage with an inflatable person of either sex.”
“Well, governor . . . “
“Or marriage to a kitchen appliance or a root vegetable.”
Predictably the governor’s remarks inspired a torrid response.
“Our members value their choices, and we demand that those choices be respected,” said Robert D. McArver, recently appointed vice president of policy and government relations of the Association of Home Appliance Manufacturers.
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