Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett (who is a Republican) apologized today for comparing gay marriage to the marriage of children.

He meant to say gay marriage is like incest, and he greatly regrets if anyone was offended by his earlier comparison.

Asked to comment on a case in which a Pennsylvania court last month ordered a county clerk to stop issuing marriage licenses, Corbett apologized for an earlier claim [that the state] does not allow gay couples to marry in the same way that it does not allow 12-year-olds to marry.

“I think the appropriate analogy would have been brother and sister, don’t you?” Corbett, a Republican, told an interview on WHP television.