August 7, 2022

His party just welcomed Viktor Orban, the right-wing Hungarian Prime Minister who came out against "race mixing" to CPAC as a guest speaker, but South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham wants us to believe his party won't try to overturn interracial marriage once they're done criminalizing abortion, overturning same-sex marriage and turning the United States into a theocracy.

Here's Graham on this Sunday's State of the Union on CNN responding to Dana Bash asking him if the 2015 Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage should be overturned:

GRAHAM: No, I am saying that I don't think it's going to be overturned.

BASH: Nor should it be?

GRAHAM: Well, that'd be up the court.

The reasoning, I think, could be attacked. But the point I'm trying to make is, I have been consistent. I think state should decide the issue of marriage and states should decide the issue of abortion. I have respect for South Carolina. South Carolina voters here I trust to define marriage and to deal with the issue of abortion, not nine people on the court. That's my view.

Bash then asked Graham whether he feels the same way about interracial marriage, and whether Loving vs. Virginia should be overturned as well.

GRAHAM: No.

BASH: Is that -- that shouldn't be touched?

GRAHAM: No, here's the point.

We're talking about things that are not happening because you don't want to talk about inflation, you don't want to talk about crime. This is all politics, my friends. Instead of trying to solve problems like unstable people having guns, we're talking about constitutional decisions that are still in effect.

But if you're going to ask me to have the federal government take over defining marriage, I'm going to say no.

But it's perfectly fine for the government to dictate to women what their private medical decisions should be. Sen. Blumenthal responded by saying marriage equality ought to be codified by the Congress because there is a real danger of it being overturned by this Supreme Court, and they're radical enough that he's exactly right.

Lindsey Graham wants us to trust this court not to overturn interracial marriage. Sorry Lindsey, but no one trusts this court or your party, nor should they.

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