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Stephen Colbert: Arguments Against Marriage Equality Conflate Losing And Winning

On Wednesday night’s Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert dedicated the opening segment to LGBT issues, notably the arguments in favor of continuing marriage inequality that Paul Clement has submitted to the Supreme Court on behalf of House Republicans. After first highlighting a new study suggesting straight men experience higher levels of stress and depression than gay men, Colbert dug into Clement’s arguments, including the claim that gays are too powerful a group to deserve the Court’s justice. Applying that logic, Colbert suggested, “If you really want to help the gays, you need to ostracize them at work, mock them at school, make them feel like they have no place in our society, because according to Paul Clement, we can’t give them rights until we wrong them.” Watch it:

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