Bobby Jindal Says “If You Disagree With Gay Marriage, They Put You in Jail”
Remember when Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal called on the GOP to stop being the “stupid party?” It was laughably obtuse even then, but since that pronouncement Jindal has charged fearlessly into territories of mind-numbing idiocy heretofore uncharted by Republicans.
Jindal is currently pandering to whoever he thinks might help him get elected President, so of course he’s jumping on the utterly bogus “Christian persecution” bandwagon, claiming that if Christians disagree with gay marriage, “they put you in jail.”
No, they don’t put you in jail for disagreeing with gay marriage, or every right wing pundit, blogger and Fox News host would be in jail right now. They put you in jail for breaking the law, which is what Kim Davis did. But this line of BS really sells to the religious right these days.
Jindal contrasted Clinton with Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who was briefly held by U.S. Marshals when she was found in contempt of court for barring her office from issuing marriage licenses, which he claimed shows that you can be put in jail if “you disagree with gay marriage.” (Back in 2009, Jindal took a very different tack with a justice of the peace who cited his personal beliefs in refusing to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple, demanding that the official lose his job.)
“Here’s where we are in our country today,” he said. “If you disagree with gay marriage, they put you in jail, as you see what happened in Kentucky, and yet if you mishandle national security information you’re allowed to run for president. It’s a crazy, crazy world we live in.”
But Jindal wasn’t finished being stupid. He’s always trying to beat his previous records, and in his interview with Iowa talk radio host Simon Conway he proceeded to blame Louisiana’s abysmal poverty, STD and teen pregnancy rates on… wait for it… Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood’s two Louisiana clinics conduct tens of thousands of STI tests and other health services each year; neither provides abortions.
But Jindal insisted that his state’s abysmal public health and poverty record is just proof that Planned Parenthood is “awful at what they do.”
“If they’re doing such a great job, why aren’t these things better?” he asked. “We should cancel their contract for no other reason, just that they’re awful at what they do.”
Under Jindal’s leadership, Louisiana’s spending on STD prevention has plummeted. Last year, Jindal signed a bill barring Planned Parenthood from providing sex education in public schools.
