Right Wing Watch reports on the extreme rhetoric and activities of key right-wing figures and organizations by showing their views in their own words. In this video, Tennessee state Rep. Mark Pody says he was called by God to warn that gay marriage is "wicked" and that's why he has drafted legislation seeking to negate the Supreme Court's gay marriage ruling.
In the latest episode of our long-running series Nutjobs On Parade, state Rep. Mark Pody stars as that guy who hears voices inside his head. Pody thinks a wrathful God is speaking to him personally like Joan of Arc. Pody is under orders, not to fight England, but to defy the United States Supreme Court and stop gay people from getting married in Tennessee. That makes Pody God's avenging angel, right? "We cannot let this unconstitutional tyranny go on," Pody insists in this YouTube video that appears to have been filmed at some kind of church meeting. "The Supreme Court is not the supreme being."
Along with Sen. Mae Beavers, Pody is sponsoring the Tennessee Defense of Natural Marriage Act. He thinks it'll nullify the Supreme Court's ruling legalizing same-sex marriage. But of course, it won't do that and it's so pointless that even the state's leading Christian conservative lobbyist, David Fowler, isn't on board with it. But then Pody says he's a "miracle-believing person" so we guess anything's possible.
"Ladies and gentlemen," Pody says on the video, "I believe I'm supposed to be speaking to the unsaved, to the people that are performing same-sex marriages, to the people involved in same-sex marriage, it is wicked, it is wrong and I am doing the best I can to warn them."
"I believe that the bill that we're are trying to put out right now is to say, 'No, it will not happen here! I believe that Nashville, Tennessee, is the time and the place that we put down the stake and we say, 'No more!'"
