Former Dallas Cowboy Ken Hutcherson testified before a Washington state legislative committee that legalizing same-sex marriage would lead to men marrying a horse. Hutcherson, the family-values pastor who officiated at Rush Limbaugh’s fourth wedding, could not give an example of any specific man who is waiting for marriage equality laws to pass so that he can marry his horse.
Ken Hutcherson
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer has little respect for Hutcherson and titled an article about his committee appearance “Ken Hutcherson knows better than God about marriage. Could it be Satan?” The newspaper said Hutcherson did not utter a complete, coherent sentence in his testimony.
The marriage equality bill championed by Gov. Christine Gregoire is moving rapidly though the Legislature. In an earlier statement, Hutcherson equated her to John Wilkes Booth, Abraham Lincoln’s assassin. Gregoire is following the lead of New York Gov. Mario Cuomo whose popularity soared after he supported marriage equality.
Hutcherson played for the Cowboys for a season in the mid-70s before he was traded to the Chargers and then the Seahawks, which is how Seattle stuck with him. He played for less than three seasons in the NFL.
Hutcherson argues about man and horse marriage in a video after the jump:
Obviously this man doesn’t understand the Respect For Marriage Act. I know some of these religious leaders condone sex with children ‘n multiple partners, but the bill to repeal DOMA is restricted to two consenting adults.
And how would he feels if an interacial marrige some people would compare to a union with a monkey.Not that I think this way, but those were the views in 50-60s.
He is speaking the truth
You mean Andrew Cuomo. Mario Cuomo hasn’t been governor of New York since 1994.
I’d love to know how a horse is expected to sign a marriage contract.
Commenter Sergei points out the historical bigotry in Hutherson’s argument.
Hutcherson’s current statement that marriage equalty for homosexuals will lead to marriage with a horse is as bigoted and wrong as saying inter-racial marriage equality would lead to marriage with a monkey in the 1950 and 60s.
god created man and woman and he did not intend for two men or two women to be married thats why he said for them to pro create, if you want to be gay thats your choice but someday you’ll see whose right the hard way. Have a question who came up the word homophobic?not a straight man
Poppa: Actually, the word was coined by George Weinberg, a heterosexual psychologist, in 1969. So yes, a straight man did come up with the word, but being Jewish he didn’t have the irrational religious bias against gays and lesbians since a Jewish reading of the Bible doesn’t contain the homophobic crap you ascribe to it.