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Rep. Tony Shipley Speaks for God on Gay Adoption
On the OpenPen blog, an unidentified lobbyist for children's issues reports on an alien encounter in Nashville. Rep. Tony Shipley of Kingsport reportedly told this lobbyist (1) that God will lift up entire states, apparently starting with California, then plop them into the ocean and drown everyone for letting gays adopt babies and (2) God-fearing Christians might secede from the union and start shooting minie balls at people if gays keep trying to adopt babies. From the blog:
My last visit in Nashville was to the newly elected representative from Kingsport, Tony Shipley. When the subject of this bill came up, here is what he said (I am quoting directly as best as I possibly can):-"They can do whatever they want out in California, with gays passing babies around, and violating God's law, but when God drops California off into the sea, they will have to deal with the consequences of their actions."
-"That [gays adopting] ain't gonna fly-I'm sorry, I'm a Southern Baptist, I'm a Christian."
And the most alarming in my opinion:
-"If they [the "secular progressives"] keep pushing and pushing and pushing-they're pushing us too far, and something will happen-just like we did in 1860."
We tried to reach Shipley for comment but he hasn't returned our calls. Do you think he knows what we want to ask him about? With a few more phone calls, Pith was able to contact the anonymous lobbyist, who said she can't give her name for fear of losing her job.
"If I take this any more public than I already just posted on the blog, I could literally be fired," the lobbyist told us. "I was just shocked because Representative Shipley had never met me before. I thought, 'How do you know I'm not gay? How do you know I don't have a gay kid?' "
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