In the course of explaining his opposition to gay marriage, New
Mexico State Senator William Sharer suggested that gay men should
stop “whoring” around and marry women instead.
Sharer is behind a Republican legal effort to stop six New Mexico
counties from issuing marriage licenses to gay and lesbian couples.
(Related: 6
New Mexico counties issue marriage licenses to gay couples, cover 56%
of state.)
In a blog post published Friday, Sharer noted that Alexander the
Great “may have engaged in homosexual activity, but he married a
woman.”
“[Alexander the Great] directed his officers to stop 'whoring'
around and find a local woman to marry.”
“'It is only through blood relations that hatred and war will
end.' In other words, Alexander the Great thought that marriage was
about creating and raising the next generation,” Sharer
wrote.
He went on to suggest that allowing gay couples to marry could
lead to the end of the human race: “As marriage goes, so go the
children, so goes the nation, so goes the world.”
Sharer told Talking
Points Memo (TPM) that he does not harbor any animosity toward
gay people.
In comments to One News Now, he said Americans should be “scared
to death” by the way marriage equality came to the New Mexico
counties.
“If this is the way that we are going to make laws across the
nation – and it appears that [not only is this] happening here in
New Mexico but it's happening all over the country as well – then
the whole idea of a representative government of the people, for the
people and by the people is gone. And no matter where you stand on
any issue, you should be scared to death of this new way of making
laws,” Sharer
said.