PHILADELPHIA DAILY NEWS Editorial: …Earlier in the year, the governor’s office attempted to block the legality of same-sex marriage licenses being issued by a Montgomery County register of wills and wrote, in part, “Had the clerk issued marriage licenses to 12-year-olds in violation of state law, would anyone seriously contend that each 12-year-old . . . is entitled to a hearing on the validity of his ‘license’?”
During a television interview Friday, Corbett agreed that comparison was “inappropriate” and went on to say that same-sex marriage was more like the marriage between a brother and sister…
So many of the governor’s comments that have caused him trouble in the past come right out of the Victorian era, an era that was squeamish about sex and unforgiving of poverty and struggle. He told women bothered by the prospect of mandatory ultrasounds before getting an abortion that they “just have to close your eyes.” And he suggested that so many Pennsylvanians are unemployed because they are afraid of their ability to pass a drug test…(more)
EDITOR: We don’t believe that Corbett meant to offend Gays. That was why we didn’t pile on. But he certainly is out of step with the times.
