Looks like stupid just got stupider. This AP article is poorly written, but apparently the Rhea County commissioners, who on Tuesday approved a resolution urging the state legislature to outlaw homosexuality, have now undone their vote:
Commissioners in the county that convicted John Scopes of teaching evolution 79 years ago on Thursday reversed a vote they made two days earlier to ban homosexuals.
The reason? They got called out by the national media There was a “minsunderstanding”:
Rhea County attorney Gary Fritts said the commission’s 8-0 vote Tuesday started a “wildfire” of reaction that he contends stemmed from a misunderstanding.
Following the vote that took about three minutes, the commissioners hastily left the meeting in a room filled with about 300 noisy spectators.
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Despite talk about changing state law so the county can charge homosexuals with crimes against nature, Fritts said the Tuesday vote was intended to support Tennessee’s ban on same-sex marriages.
“I’m not saying it wasn’t discussed,” Fritts said. “It will definitely be clarified because there was a misunderstanding. Sometimes you had five or six people talking.”
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“They wanted to send a message to our (state) representative and senator that Rhea County supports the ban on same-sex marriage. Same-sex marriage is what it was all about,” Fritts said. “There has just been so much misunderstanding about this. It was to stop people from coming here and getting married and living in Rhea County.”
Who is it that failed to understand what was going on? The commissioners?
It’s bad enough that they voted to support an unconstitutional measure. Shall we take it that in addition to being discriminators, they also don’t know what they cast votes for during meetings?
Nice.