Family Research Council Can't Talk and Think at the Same Time

Family Reseach Council, which supports breaking-up families that don't do what they say, has put out the stupidest press release ever.

Yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Assistant Minority Leader Richard Durbin (D-IL) performed a shameless routine on the floor of the U.S. Senate arguing that marriage is not an important enough issue to be debated by the U.S. Senate. Both Senators said that there are much more critical issues that the Senate should be addressing, apparently under the belief that the Senate, composed of 100 august Senators, was capable of only handling one issue at a time.

Family Research Council Vice President of Government Affairs Tom McClusky sent both Senator Reid and Durbin a letter rebutting their argument and will be dropping off chewing gum to the offices of both Senators.

Here is an excerpt from the letter explaining the choice of gift:"The American people are well known for being able to multi-task. I am sure they expect the same from those they have elected to represent them in our U.S. Senate. Surely an issue as important as marriage can be debated while also continuing work on important issues such as judges, tax relief and the war on terror. As an experiment, and to thank you for your amusing routine on the U.S. Senate floor, I will be delivering to both of you a package of Wrigley's. chewing gum. With this gum I am sure you can disprove those naysayers who believe that U.S. Senators cannot both legislate and chew gum at the same time."

I can't imagine a dumber statement. It is a fact that you can't debate two things at one time. A day debating same-sex marraige is a day not debating something else. Like the war in Iraq. Bush's attack on the Constitution. Or the rapid growth of federal spending. While the Senate was wasting time debating a losing - and stupid - issue, they were not debating more important issues. Also, if the Family Research Council had their way chewing gum would be illegal. Jesus didn't chew gum, you know.