Reason #462: You're a family-hating poo poo head

This past week, the Family Research Council had opponents of the Federal Marriage Amendment squirming in the steely grip of FRC's logic:

FRC Sends Chewing Gum to Senators Reid and Durbin
June 7, 2006,

Washington, D.C. - 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."

Oooo, snap! Suck -- or rather -- chew on that Senators! Poor Democrats can't increase the national debt while torturing Guantanamo detainees and eliminating the separation of powers. Pussies.

And yet, you found time last week to NOT repeal the "estate tax:"

It's been an up-and-down week in Washington. First, we suffered a tragic defeat in the fight to protect marriage in the Senate. Next, the Senate failed to break a liberal filibuster against repealing the Death Tax. (They really don't like the family, folks!)

That's right -- marriage for everyone + refusal to plunge your grandchildren into greater debt = you hate families. Again, I don't see how you can argue with that. Oh, and you have cooties.