A Republican Party County Chairman in Texas tells a woman who is lesbian if she wants to marry she can move to a state controlled by Democrats, but he adds a warning.
John Langhoff is the Republican Party chairman in DeWitt County, Texas, an area that cover over 900 square miles and has about 20,000 residents.
Langhoff has some very strong opinions when it comes to same-sex marriage, and in a letter to the editor published today, he shared them whole-heartedly.
“Marriage is a religious ceremony for men and women which is recognized by the State,” he writes. “Civil unions are recognized by the state for homosexuals.”
Same-sex marriage — or rather, “homosexual marriage,” as he calls it — is not a constitutional right, he says, because “nowhere in the U.S. Constitution is marriage mentioned.”
Most people, as I told Mr. Langhoff after a brief telephone call today, would point him to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that marriage “is one of the ‘basic civil rights of man.'” He writes that “the Supreme Court has violated the Constitution by not ruling that social laws are within powers that belong to the states.”Â
And what does Langhoff think gay people who would like to marry, or have the right to marry, do?Â
“There are many states that are controlled by Democrats,” Langhoff writes, that have laws allowing a woman “to marry another woman.”
“Moving there is an option she can consider,” he adds.
So much for that “big tent” the GOP likes to tout.
And what should gay people who support same-sex marriage do after they move to a state “controlled by Democrats”?
“Of course, since the state government is run by the Democrats,” Langhoff says, “there are no jobs and the economy is in the toilet, but there would be plenty of welfare available to her.”
Langhoff told me he stands by his comments.
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