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TexasTowelie

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Thu Sep 22, 2016, 01:29 AM Sep 2016

Kentucky family judge: Gay marriage, like 'jumbo shrimp,' illogical [View all]

LOUISVILLE — A Family Court judge who routinely presides over gay adoptions said that gay marriage is an “oxymoron” like “jumbo shrimp” or a “magnificent Chihuahua.”

Appearing before a religious group, Fayette Circuit Court Judge Tim Philpot said he loves homosexuals but their relationships are “sterile” and “just entertainment.”

Addressing the Francis Asbury Society in Wilmore, Ky., on Sept. 8, Philpot called the Supreme Court’s decision last year legalizing gay marriage “pretty close to insane” and warned that “there is no question that polygamy is on the way.”

Philpot, a former state senator, said that the worst impact of gay marriage is its effect on children.

Read more: http://www.ydr.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/09/21/ky-family-judge-gay-marriage-like-jumbo-shrimp-illogical/90794982/

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