Hawaii Twice Divorced Governor Compares Gay Marriage to Incest

Seemingly trying to further destroy her state as a tourist destination, hypocite Linda Lindle - who applies Bible passages to gays but not herself - has now publicly stated that gay marriage is the same as incest. Or at least that's how she is trying to justify her veto of civil union legislation for same sex couples in Hawaii. The irony is that meanwhile, Hawaii allows first cousins to marry - something backward Virginia allows as well. Too bad Ms. Lindle doesn't even know the laws of her own state. It kills me that the world will purportedly end if gays marry but it's fine to marry that first cousin you grew up with and celebrated with at family gatherings. First cousins marrying? Sure sounds pretty much like incest to me. In fact, half of the states ban such marriages. Think Progress has coverage on this bitch, I mean bigot's latest blather. Here are highlights:
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In her first radio appearance after her veto, Good As You noted that Lingle continued to pretend that the legislation would undermine traditional marriage. She also claimed that if people believe marriage equality for same-sex couples is a “civil rights issue,” they should also be concerned that close relatives can’t marry either:
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LINGLE: For those people who want to makes this into a civil rights issue, and of course those in favor of the bill, they see it as a civil rights issue. And I understand them drawing that conclusion. But people on the other side would point out, well, we don’t allow other people to marry even — it’s not a civil right for them. First cousins couldn’t marry, or a brother and a sister and that sort of thing. So there are restrictions, not to put it in the exact same category. But the bottom line is, it really can’t be a civil right if we are restricting it in other cases, and it’s been found to be legal in those other cases, that the restrictions
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Lingle’s argument is popular with conservatives. Recently, former Arkansas governor and current Fox News personality Mike Huckabee said that legalizing marriage equality would “be like saying, well, there are a lot of people who like to use drugs, so let’s go ahead and accommodate those who want who use drugs. There are some people who believe in incest, so we should accommodate them.