It’s the latest saga to fire up the Inter-Tubes. Scott Walker admitted to CNN’s Dana Bash that he doesn’t know whether or not gay is a choice. Now to be fair, Walker isn’t exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, and as a Republican Presidential Candidate he’s duty bound to vehemently deny anything that looks even vaguely like science… and biology is the worst. Regulating corporations is evil, but regulating a woman’s va-ja-ja is godly.
When Dana Bash asked him over the weekend whether or not being gay was a choice, he channeled Sarah Palin and gave us a long and rambling word salad—some might even call it a “fruit salad.”
Oh, I mean I think—that’s not even an issue for me to be involved in. The bottom line is, I’m going to stand up and work hard for every American regardless of who they are, no matter where they come from, no matter what their background. I’m going to fight for people whether they vote for me or not.It was a verbal perambulation worthy of Governor Sanford explaining his hike up the Appalachian Trail or Caitlin Upton’s 2007 response to why Americans can’t find themselves on a map.
So Bash pressed him:
On behalf of people to do that properly you have to understand or at least have an opinion on who they are and where they’re coming from.
But again, I think—no, I don’t have an opinion on every single issue out there. I mean to me that’s—I don’t know. I don’t know the answer to that question. So, I’m saying I don’t know what the answer to that is. And I’m going to spend my time focused on things that I do know and I can work on.Walker’s answer is telling—even though he did his best not to say anything. First of all, nobody believes that he doesn’t have an opinion about this, or that he thinks it’s an issue he should stay out of. He’s already inserted himself. Last Tuesday he insinuated that if the Boy Scouts lifted the ban on gay adult scoutmasters, then the young boys of the Scouts would “be unprotected…” We all know what he meant.
Hey Walker, it’s the Boy Scouts, not the Catholic Church.
When the Supremes ruled on marriage equality, he was right there along with everyone else declaring that their decision was a “grave mistake…” Republican-speak for “God’s going to send you to hell.
So yes, he clearly has an opinion.