Last August I told you about Greg Abbott filing briefs saying that the purpose of marriage is procreation and that why we can’t be having marriage equality.

Now I took this to be a slam against me personally because Ole Bubba and me ain’t in the procreation business any longer so I suspect our marriage would insult Greg Abbott’s world view.

Since August, the boy has doubled down on dumb.

He’s now arguing that the gay marriage ban reduces the number of out-of-wedlock births.

Okay, I’ll wait here while you get your brain put back together.

Attorney General Greg Abbott says Texas’ same-sex marriage ban should remain in place because legalizing it would do little or nothing to encourage heterosexual couples to get married and have children.

Abbott writes —

Texas’s marriage laws are rationally related to the State’s interest in reducing unplanned out-of-wedlock births. By channeling procreative heterosexual intercourse into marriage, Texas’s marriage laws reduce unplanned out-of-wedlock births and the costs that those births impose on society. Recognizing same-sex marriage does not advance this interest because same-sex unions do not result in pregnancy.”

So by not having gay marriage means that gay people will marry a member of the opposite gender and have babies because we are “channeling” them to do that.

Honey, if he lets go of that stretch, he’ll boomerang for about a week.