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Making a Point About Same-sex Marriage, with Humor

So-called anti-left-handed-marriage activists hold rally.

 

Sometimes, you have to be blunt to make a point.

And that’s what state Rep. Seth Cohn, R-Canterbury, is trying to do in the same-sex marriage repeal debate. Cohn, a liberty-minded Republican with a wry sense of humor, has sponsored an amendment to the traditional marriage bill banning left-handed people from marrying, throwing a monkey wrench into the debate. Whether you consider it a political stunt or valid point, it has garnered Cohn global headlines, including radio interviews outside of New Hampshire and a mention in the New York Times.

Outside of the Statehouse this morning, a number of protesters held signs supporting the amendment, with slogans like “two lefts don’t make a right," just hours before what is presumed to be a dynamic and historic debate concerning the Granite State’s same-sex marriage law. At the same time, some pro-traditional marriage advocates volleyed points back and forth with the protesters, making their views known.

“I’m using humor to make a point,” Cohn said to a traditional marriage supporter. “And when I get up there, believe me, there will be a point made. I’m trying to sway people’s opinions and using humor is one way to do it.”

During the discussions on the steps of the Statehouse, at least one other representative found the entire thing amusing.

State Rep. David Robbins, R-Nashua, asked Cohn if he was left-handed and Cohn said yes. Everyone has "an equal right to marry the right-hander of their choice," Cohn said, jokingly, adding that he’s a self-hating lefthander.

Robbins countered that it was nice to have a bit of humor thrown into what is a “very serious issue.”

Cohn added, “I’m just not being lighthearted. There’s a serious side to this, trust me.”

Related Topics: Statehouse, Traditional Marriage, and same-sex marriage

Michael

12:54 pm on Wednesday, March 21, 2012

There should also be a law preventing ambidextrous one-armed homeless men from marrying pi-pedal homeless women with one leg.

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Bill Perkins

1:17 pm on Wednesday, March 21, 2012

If an ambidexter marries a unidexter, things really get out of hand!

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N. Mackey

1:55 pm on Wednesday, March 21, 2012

I kinda like this guy...and he's a Republican!

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PScottA

7:49 pm on Wednesday, March 21, 2012

He is a libertarian republican not a progressive republican (aka NeoCon)

David WANEK

3:49 pm on Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Finally a republican initiative I can get behind DOWN WITH THOSE IMMORAL LEFT HANDERS !!!!!!

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Ken Stott

4:11 pm on Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Be Careful, this may not be a joke

Remember in the dark ages, they ki.lled left handed people.There used to be extreme and severe suspicions of anything left. In the history of left handed people, the Latin term for left is sinister, which in modern English can be interpreted as meaning “evil”; “menacing”; or “threatening”.

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labman57

10:19 pm on Wednesday, March 21, 2012

The reason why some people are so opposed to gay marriage -- and all of the rights and benefits that come with a marriage certificate -- is because the thought of homosexuals expressing physical affection for one another totally repulses them, and the notion that such a relationship could be officially sanctioned through marriage pours salt into the wound of their prejudice.

The argument that gays should be satisfied with civil unions because it provides most of the same protections as marriage is akin to suggesting that blacks shouldn't care whether they are required to sit in the back of the bus, since all of the passengers will arrive at the same destination.

The argument that marriage is intended by God for couples that can and will procreate is equally absurd, for then the law should restrict couples from marrying if one or both members are infertile, or are beyond child-bearing age, or if they have refused to contractually agree to procreate.

Those people who are so adamant that gays be denied the right to marry are the same types of people who would have expressed outrage in the 1950s and 1960s when the validity of interracial marriage was being debated. Hatred toward gays is simply their "flavor of the month".

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Shakil Mason

4:55 pm on Thursday, March 22, 2012

What both an incredible and equally intelligent opinion, I agree with this 100%.

Henry Coe

2:55 am on Thursday, March 22, 2012

"Right handers are the best, no marriage for the Lefts" :-)

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mmmmm

6:53 am on Thursday, March 22, 2012

I want to know when Mother Nature is going to allow all the gay animals to partner up? Actually that may have already happened, the species never pro created and is extinct now.

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Alexandra Andrea Equality Beninda

11:13 am on Thursday, March 22, 2012

I am an Ambidextrous, Bisexual, Transgender Woman ;D

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Patriot

7:35 pm on Thursday, March 22, 2012

But are you married? I have not read one remark about underhanded marriage.

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Alexandra Andrea Equality Beninda

9:01 am on Friday, March 23, 2012

Yes, and I'm married to a right-hander ;D

Michael A

8:42 am on Friday, March 23, 2012

Seriously, is gay discrimination any less arbitrary than discrimination against left-handers?

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Patriot

6:33 pm on Saturday, March 24, 2012

I would think more because I don't know any left handers. They must be still in the closet.

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Patriot

6:35 pm on Saturday, March 24, 2012

I don't know any left handers, I always thought it was a joke about switching hands. Never thought you could really do it!

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William Van Vechten

12:10 pm on Monday, March 26, 2012

I'm a right hander, and my lover is a right hander, but we STILL don't believe in marriage!

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William Van Vechten

12:35 pm on Monday, March 26, 2012

The religious: Left-handedness is a choice. Why did you choose to be left handed (evil) when it's very clear that being right handed is the only (good) choice? Maybe we need to send you off to a rehabilitation program where you can change your choice back to being right handed, and be saved.

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Kathy

3:32 pm on Sunday, April 1, 2012

Wtf is this I have 2 daughters that r left handed this the most stupid thing ever they didn't chose to be left handed they were born that way there actually smarter than my rigt handed children make highest honors cring living girls I'm sooo pissed right now I also have left handed cousins and nieces this is the dumbest news ie her heard

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