Funniest Right-Winger of the Week

Some imaginative person in Springfield, Missouri argues in the Springfield News-Leader that if we allow gay marriage, we will be forced to allow 14 year-olds to drive on our highways! I encourage all of you to indulge yourself and give this column a read - you'll walk away shaking your head at the lengths to which some people will go to cloak their religion-based position in what they think is logic.

A couple things dampen the humor of the situation. First, why would a paper with 182,000 daily readers publish nonsense like that? Second, this guy is the Chair of the Department of Social Science at Evangel University, an accredited institution of higher learning.