Paul "Skip" Stam, Asshole of the Day for June 25, 2014
"Shameful."
That's the word being used to describe North Carolina Republican "Skip" Stam's inflammatory remarks on the House floor Tuesday.
As Speaker Pro Tem, Stam is the second highest ranking Republican in the House, behind NC House Speaker Thom Tillis.
He's also an incredible f**king moron.
Stam claimed that preventing discrimination based on 'sexual orientation' would also protect those who engage in pedophilia, necrophilia, bestiality and more. He backed up his beliefs about 'sexual orientations' by handing out a list of from the outdated 2000 DSM-IV manual which the American Psychiatric Association said in 2013 erroneously listed some sexual disorders as "orientations."
Of course, Stam is not the first Republican to try to put bestiality and pedophilia into the same sentence as homosexuality (Rick Santorum is oft-googled on the topic.)
But seeing as he used the same list in 2010 to make a similar point (and was called on it then), the fact that he quoted from it again in a 2014 debate about hiring discrimination earns him the title Asshole of the Day.