You know that religious right talking point about gay marriage that goes, “Slippery slope! Where does it end? Marrying horses?”

Well, the GOP’s candidate for Lt. Governor of Wisconsin, Rebecca Kleefisch, takes it up a notch by comparing gay marriage to marrying a table. Or a clock.

“We can’t at this point afford to just be handing out money to anyone,” Rebecca Kleefisch told WVCY, a local Christian station while discussing her opposition to domestic partner benefits for gay state employees.

“This is a slippery slope in addition to that — at what point are we going to OK marrying inanimate objects? Can I marry this table, or this, you know, clock? Can we marry dogs? This is ridiculous.”

After being slammed by gay rights organizations and bloggers who recently turned up the interview from earlier in the year, the 35-year-old apologized on Thursday.

(Hat tip: lawhawk.)