Bill Owens: If he were any dumber, we'd have to call him George

In what I can only surmise is an attempt to emulate his idol, George Bush, our illustrious governor, Bill Owens, has vetoed a bill passed by Colorado's Senate to enact anti-discrimination laws against gays. Even though the state itself has laws on the books prohibiting discrimination based on one's sexual orientation, Owens didn't think it was a great idea to hold private businesses to the same standard. His reasoning for rejecting the bill was that it would open the floodgates to a torrent of discrimination lawsuits. Let's look at the facts, Governor: In the past five years, about 1,000 discrimination claims have been filed by Colorado state workers, according to the State Department of Personnel. Those five years represent the time that the law prohibiting discrimination based on someone's sexual orientation has been on the books. So in those five years, and of those 1,000 claims of discrimination, how many were based on sexual orientation?

Zero.

So Owens' big speech about being concerned that adding fags to the list of what a company can't blithely discriminate against would result in an epic wave of lawsuits... well, it's just more Republican bullshit, isn't it?

Curiously enough, and this is where the title of this post comes into play, Bill Owens used this opportunity of striking down a new anti-discrimination law to speak to his flock. But not to lambaste the wicked infidel homos for their evil ways... no, he actually chastised his fellow Republicans for likening homosexuality to bestiality, declaring it an abomination, and even suggesting that pedophilia was a sexual orientation. So seeing that his fellow party members had shoved the homos to the ground, Governor Owens sort of loosely defended them, then proceeded to kick them all in the head, you know, since they were down anyway.

The hell?

House Speaker Andrew Romanoff said that he was "deeply disappointed," and that Owens had sent a pretty contradictory message to the community, saying, "[Owens] seems to be saying that it's OK to fire them, but not to kill them."

I guess victories have to be taken where they can be found, huh?