Opponents of same-sex marriage used passages from the Bible and tales of the barnyard in a Monday morning hearing, seeking to derail a marriage equality bill heavily favored to pass in the state House of Representatives.
“I’ll put it in farmer’s terms: When you put two bulls in a pen, you don’t get a calf,” Kennon Forester, a farmer from Royal City in Eastern Washington, told a House Judiciary Committee hearing.
A few moments later, Tri-Cities resident Jennifer Morris used a different metaphor, declaring: “If you were building a skyscraper, you would not be putting bolts with bolts and nuts with nuts.” Read more »
