Colorado Republicans say stupid things

The Colorado State Senate was working on a bill to require HIV tests for pregnant women. Clearly, the idea is that if a woman unknowingly has HIV or AIDS then the doctors will be able to provide treatment immediately to protect the baby.

Republican State Sen. Dave Schultheis, however, disagrees.

"...Sexual promiscuity, we know, causes a lot of problems in our state, one of which, obviously, is the contraction of HIV. And we have other programs that deal with the negative consequences — we put up part of our high schools where we allow students maybe 13 years old who put their child in a small daycare center there.

We do things continually to remove the negative consequences that take place from poor behavior and unacceptable behavior, quite frankly, and I don’t think that’s the role of this body...."

Later, State Sen. Dave Schultheis clarified his position:

"What I’m hoping is that, yes, that person may have AIDS, have it seriously as a baby and when they grow up, but the mother will begin to feel guilt as a result of that," he said. "The family will see the negative consequences of that promiscuity and it may make a number of people over the coming years begin to realize that there are negative consequences and maybe they should adjust their behavior."

Yep. He seriously stated that he has no problem with babies having AIDS because it will teach those promiscuous parents a gosh darn lesson.

This is the same Colorado State Senate where earlier another Republican state Senator, Scott Renfroe, compared homosexuality to murder when speaking against a bill that would extend health benefits to same-sex domestic partners of state employees.

After quoting Scripture to call homosexual behavior a "detestable act," the Greeley Republican said it would be “an abomination according to Scripture” for the Legislature to “(take) sins and (make) them to be legally OK.”

He continued: "I’m not saying (homosexuality) is the only sin that is out there. Obviously we have sin — we have murder, we have, we have all sorts of sin, we have adultery, and we don’t make laws making those legal, and we would never think to make murder legal."

I don't know how many people from Colorado read this blog, but please let me know what the hell you are feeding your Republicans in that state. Whatever it is, I want to avoid it to make sure I don't come down with a virulent case of being an asshole like these guys.