Stephen Colbert Wants Gays To Prove To Anti-Gay Congressman They Exist — With Photos

In what may be one of his best segments ever, last night Stephen Colbert examined Governor Jan Brewer‘s veto of SB-1062, the Arizona bill “which would have allowed business owners to freely practice their deeply held religious belief of not selling pastry to gay people.”

Colbert then took on virulently anti-gay Tea Party Iowa Republican, U.S. Congressman Steve King.

Rep. King’s ridiculous comments last weekend centered around his newly-created concept that being gay is a “self-professed behavior” and can’t be “independently verified” — and therefore don’t deserve civil rights protections.

“Although it’s clear in the civil rights section of the code that you can’t discriminate against people based upon …race, creed, religion, color of skin, those kinds of things,” Rep. King said, “there’s nothing mentioned in there on self-professed behavior, and that’s what they’re trying to perfect, is special rights for self-professed behavior, and I think it’s difficult for us to define a law that would protect behavior.”

Colbert of course had a field day with that.

“Yes, of course, ‘self-professed behavior,'” Colbert said. “Unlike race, you can’t tell somebody’s gay just by looking at them. As far as I know, Johnny Weir is a perfectly-straight wood nymph.”

“Steve King is right — these self-professed gays just want you to refuse them service so they can sue you.”

“The only way for gays to be protected is to have their gayness independently verified. So, I think what Steve King is saying, gays, is he wants you to send photos and/or videos proving to Steve King that you are gay.”

Genius.

And hilarious.

And I hope everyone does.

Let’s flood Rep.King with proof that gay people — and our families — exist, and we aren’t just pretending.

Watch:

 

Previously:

Steve King: I Have Personally Sat On The Mexican Border And Caught Drug Mules (Audio)