Virginia State Senator Claims Gay Marriage Will Lead to Legalization of Polygamy

The lunacy and open bigotry of the Republican Party of Virginia continues to be on display even before the Virginia General Assembly session starts next month.  One can only imagine the batshitery that will ensue when the Virginia GOP knuckle draggers convene.  In addition to the always insane and anti-gay and anti-gay Del. Bob Marshall, Senator Dick Black (pictured at right) has escaped the asylum and blathering to the press about the way in which gay marriage equates to incest and will lead to the legalization of polygamy.  The later, of course, ought to please the Christofascists if they were honest - which they are not - since polygamy is the truest form of "Biblical marriage" and was practiced by many of the pillars of the Old Testament.  Blue Virginia highlights some of Black's crazier remarks: 

While Black said he's worked with [Senator Adam] Ebbin on other issues, he likened same-sex marriage to polygamy and incest.
 
"I don't think it can really be redefined," said Black about marriage. "I think you can enact legislation that there's marriage that's not based on a normal physical union of two people but you can have people who very much desire to marry a first cousin and government says you can't do that."

Speaking about exclusively supporting marriage between one man and one woman, he later added that "I don't have to justify my position because my position is justified by the entire scope of human history since the beginning of time."

Although Black opposes both same-sex marriage and polygamy, he cast polygamy in a more favorable light than homosexuality.
 
"When you talk about polygamy, at least it functions biologically. I think you can make a stronger argument for that and certainly there have already been initiatives for there to say that polygamist marriages should be authorized also."

Continuing on polygamy, Black said, "It's just more natural" than homosexuality.
 

"You actually have cultures over history that have permitted it," said Black. "You really don't have cultures that have permitted same-sex marriage. So this is an extension and I think it would be very difficult over the long run to deny polygamist marriages if you're saying love is the foundation" of same-sex marriages.

Blue Virginia also notes that Black likes talking about spousal rape and "nighties" when he's not telling bizarre, presumably fictional stories about homosexual rape in the military. As have said before, to be a Republican nowadays requires that one be (i) crazy, (ii) a racist, (iii) a homophobe, (iv) anti-woman, or all of the foregoing.