You’ve probably already heard it, but it’s important to really think about the implications of what Senator Claire McCaskill, perhaps unwittingly, on the topic of gay marriage on her Twitter account a couple days ago. In her tweet, she suggested that, just like gun laws should be on a per-state basis that only affects that jurisdiction, so should gay marriage policy be housed within each policy’s respective state and prevented from being applicable in others.

We love McCaskill and feels she’s done a better job than most on reaching across the aisle and representing her constituents. But this is just not cool.

From Pam’s House Blend:

She may not hate gay people, but she doesn’t think that they deserve to be equal in all ways under the law. If she has a religious objection that’s one matter, but we are talking about civil marriage and reciprocity in the same way a drivers license is recognized. What part of it does the Senator not understand? She needs to explain herself. Certainly she must have LGBT on her staff — does she think that they are lesser human beings?

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