One can only assume that there must be exploding heads across Teabaghistan as the "godly folk" come to the realization that one of their puppet masters, David Koch, one of the insidious Koch brothers, supports gay marriage and has joined in an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court asking the Court to strike down state marriage bans nationwide. If the cretins in the "family values" crowd figure out that their theocratic agenda has been betrayed - a big if, admittedly, given the general stupidity of the Christofascists/Tea Party - the spittle will be spraying in veritable sheets like windblown sea foam. A piece in the Washington Free Beacon looks at Koch's participation in the amicus brief. Here are highlights:
Libertarian avid Koch is backing a federal challenge to same sex marriage bans, signing on to a Supreme Court brief urging the court to overturn state-level prohibitions on the practice.
He will join hundreds of other prominent right-of-center thinkers, activists, and public figures in asking the Supreme Court to prohibit states from outlawing the practice under the 14th Amendment.
Koch, the vice president of Koch Industries and the world’s sixth wealthiest person, is a deep-pocketed donor to Republican and conservative groups.
Koch Industries general counsel Mark Holden confirmed on Tuesday that Koch will sign his name to the brief. Holden said he did so in his personal capacity.
“I believe in gay marriage,” he told Politico in 2012. A former vice presidential candidate on the Libertarian Party ticket, Koch is in line with that movement’s thinking on the issue, despite his support for a party that frequently opposes gay marriage.
The Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin on Tuesday reported some of the brief’s other signatories, and on the argument they’re presenting:
The brief’s signatories include former Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman, conservative pundits S.E. Cupp and Alex Castellanos, former White House chief of staff Ken Duberstein, former Mitt Romney senior advisers Beth Myers and Carl Forti, conservative economists Doug Holtz-Eakin (formerly director of the Congressional Budget Office) and Greg Mankiw (formerly on the Council of Economic Advisers), former senator Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), former homeland security adviser Fran Townsend and former Massachusetts state Senate minority leader Richard Tisei.
In the brief, the signatories argue that they “have concluded that marriage is strengthened, and its value to society and to individual families and couples is promoted, by providing access to civil marriage for all American couples—heterosexual or gay or lesbian alike. In particular, civil marriage provides stability for the children of same-sex couples, the value of which cannot be overestimated. In light of these conclusions, amici believe that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits States from denying same-sex couples the legal rights and responsibilities that flow from the institution of civil marriage.”
One can only assume that Tony Perkins, Bryan Fischer, Maggie Gallagher and the Catholic bishops are writhing in convulsion with spittle driveling from their mouths at this development. It will be interesting to see if Koch's signing on to the brief diminishes the acceptance of the Koch brothers' ploys to use religious extremism and racism in the GOP base/Tea Party.
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