Well, they screwed up again

I don't even know which of the icons from the key I should use for this entry, but if there was one for incurable stupidity, it would be suitable here.

Years ago, I conceived a computer game that would feature Ronald Reagan's voice saying, "Well, you screwed up again." I think that applies to the Oklahoma legislature in this story.

Because most Republicans in the Oklahoma Senate hate gays, they just passed a bill designed to make it illegal to enforce the newly expanded federal hate crime statute in the Sooner State. Their aim was to "nullify" the part of the law that protects people from hate crimes on the basis of sexual orientation.

What the Oklahoma Senate tried to do is illegal of course, but they were undeterred by law, science, or reason.

However, the bill they passed cited the wrong federal statute to ignore. So, instead of sexual orientation, this bill refers to the federal law against hate crimes motivated by race or religion.

It's bad enough that they tried to pull Oklahoma out of a perfectly valid federal law, but they didn't even cite the right law!

And the Oklahoma Senate actually passed this shit? Of course they did. They're the Oklahoma Senate, after all.

Then again, I know that some right-wing legal eagles out there are thinking of ways to overturn the federal hate crime statutes as I write this. And when you have courts like the federal Fourth Circuit, which supports Fred Phelps, how can people be sure they won't get away with it?

(Source: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/29/oklahoma-hate-crimes-screwup)