A Utah politician is so desperate to squash gay marriage there that he has proposed dissolving the state.
Apple Valley councilman Samuel Wyatt told supporters at a fundraising breakfast that he is looking into what it would take to have the state absorbed into neighboring Arizona, where gay marriage remains illegal.
“Sometimes something’s too broken to be fixed and you just need to melt it down,” Wyatt said at the event. “With Utah now allowing the gays to marry, I don’t even know what’s next. Bestiality? That’s probably already here. We probably already have people and dogs doing these things right under our noses. But I digress. What I’m saying is we need to just scrap this state as a failed idea and let Arizona annex our land to expand God’s law back to the north.”
U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby ruled Utah’s ban on gay marriage unconstitutional on Dec. 20, and nearly 1,000 same-sex couples have tied the knot there since.
One elderly woman was taken from the breakfast in an ambulance after her husband said she fainted at the mere mention of gay marriage.
“This state isn’t ready for the gays, but the gays are forcefully entering our lives the way they enter one another again and again,” Wyatt said. “Ergo, only one thing makes sense — the state can no longer exist under God.”
Brigham Young University law professor Stanley Cooper said Wyatt faces a daunting task in not only convincing legislators to dissolve the state but in the logistics of the bill that would be required.
“We’re talking a veritable mountain of paperwork,” Cooper said. “The gays could literally bankrupt Wyatt’s office if he’s forced to print all of it out, so I just don’t see how it’s feasible.”
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