[lbo-talk] stupidest quote of the week from an American politician?

[Doug Henwood]

<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/19/washington/19marriage.html? 
_r=1&oref=slogin>

Another Georgia Republican, Representative Phil Gingrey, said support  
for traditional marriage “is perhaps the best message we can give to  
the Middle East and all the trouble they’re having over there right  
now.”