Goodness. What does one make of this exchange, between Bill O’Reilly and Margaret Hoover, via Media Matters for America:
O’REILLY: Hoover, you would let everybody get married who want to get married. You want to marry a turtle, you can.
HOOVER: Due process. I want to abide by the law. If the law says I can marry a turtle, I’ll marry a turtle. Last time I checked, we’re a Judeo-Christian culture that doesn’t allow me to marry turtles.
O’Reilly’s raising one of the time-honored tropes of gay-marriage opponents, and his notional opponent Hoover’s attempt to parry it is ineffective at best.
Wouldn’t it be more effective and truthful to say something like “Bill, that’s completely irrelevant. Turtles can’t even marry other turtles.” Leave the equal protection stuff and especially the Judeo-Christian stuff out of it. I mean, jeez.
Here’s the whole segment.