Christopher Plante of the National
Organization for Marriage (NOM) on Monday testified that he objects
to a proposed gay marriage bill in Washington state because it would
pollute the social environment for future generations,
ThinkProgress.org
reported.
“Today, you can go to the supermarket
and buy seventh generation cleaning products because it is
politically correct to be worried about the ecology we're leaving the
seventh generation. What is the social environment we're going to
leave the seventh generation,” Plante told lawmakers on the House
Judiciary Committee reviewing the measure.
(Related: NOM
pledges to work against Washington state Republicans who support gay
marriage.)
Senator
Mary Margaret Haugen announced she would vote in favor of the bill
before the panel began its public hearing, giving supporters
sufficient support to make Washington the seventh state to legalize
gay marriage.
Bill Wells of the Beginning Christian
Church suggested that lawmakers were acting like Nazis.
“Hitler tried to change and redefine
what life was and it was a great failure,” he testified. “I
can't believe at the age of 58, I'd even be here discussing something
like this. It's totally an abomination and disgusting.”
Another opponent, Ken Hutcherson of the
Antioch Bible Church, accused lawmakers of second guessing God.
“So you're telling me that you know
better than God,” Hutcherson said. “You're telling me that God
is not right by limiting marriage to just a man and a woman. You're
doing the same thing. You're just saying God is too narrow minded,
but you're just as narrow minded, because you just want to give it to
two men or two women.” (A video compilation is embedded in the
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