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Idaho GOP Considering Excluding Transpeople From Marriage, Getting Rid of Direct Senatorial Elections

06/26/10-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire
The Idaho Republican Party is set to join the legions of people trying to do some pretty crazy things like attempting to repeal the 17th Amendment, which would effectively bar the Republicans from ever having a Senate Majority ever again, put into place a militia separate from the national guard ‘in case of natural disasters’, and defining marriage as being between a natural born man and a natural born woman despite the number of men and women out there who are born intersexed.  The Idaho GOP did, however, shoot down the notion of medical marijuana.  Perhaps they were afraid that it would take away from the bad granola that they have been smoking lately.

Bannock County delegate Ralph Lilling would like to exclude the possibility of transpeople getting married to people of the opposite sex by amending Idaho law to make it clear that marriage is suppose to be between a natural born man and a natural born woman; however, Kootenai County delegate Donna Montgomery felt it was unnecessary because people already know that a man is a man and a woman is a woman.  Apparently she has never listened to the Kink’s song “Lola.”

Delegates in committee took aim at the 17th amendment, which allows for Senators to be voted on by the people and return that power to the state legislatures.  They seek to overturn the amendment in order to, supposedly, return the Constitutional checks and balances to the nation.  Of course, if they did that, the Democrats would have a lock on the Senate for the foreseeable future as many states have legislatures which are dominated by Democrats, and only a few are evenly split or held by Republicans.  Getting rid of the filibuster would be unnecessary since it would not matter any more.

The delegates are also trying to determine whether or not they should push for a secondary militia which would not be subject to call up by the American military in times of war, but would be there in case of natural disasters.  Of course, if they did have a natural disaster, they could just call up Governors Bobby Jindal and Haley Barbour and ask to borrow their National Guard troops since neither men- or any of the states hit by the oil disaster- have bothered to deploy more than a handful of troops to clean up the oil.

Still, they have stated that they are against medical marijuana.

Of course, if they really want to get loopy, they need to borrow Texas’ party platform.