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Stifle it, bitches. Your President feels the same way about same-sex marriage as Carrie Prejean; you can't change that, and your wining snit-fits and temper tantrums aren't getting the job done. Hate it for you.

Donald Trump on Miss California: Same as Barack Obama

President Barack Obama ended up in the middle of an unlikely controversy this morning — the debate over Miss California’s position on gay marriage.

At a press conference addressing Carrie Prejean’s disputed title in the Miss USA competition, pageant owner Donald Trump compared Prejean’s stated views on gay marriage to Obama’s.

“It's the same answer that the president of the United States gave,” Trump said. “She gave an honorable answer. She gave an answer from her heart.”

In her own remarks moments later, Prejean echoed Trump’s statement, telling reporters: “The president of the United States, the secretary of state, and many Americans agree with me in this belief.”

Now, this next is just...weird. From yesterday's Leaf-Chronicle (I saw the Clarksville paper; this was the lead story on page A-1...

State marries same-sex couple

ID says woman but in jail as man; state says gender cannot change

Phillips and Rittenberry are the first same-sex marriage in Tennessee.

Rittenberry, 46, and Phillips, 33, met through a hot-line service and legally wed in November 2007

Oh, and the hilarity does ensue. You'll have to visit that article, look at the grinning bride's photo. It seems that she was a he, she had some kind of surgery, but the surgery obviously didn't get...everything.

Rittenberry was born a man but identifies as a woman and claims to have had sex reassignment surgery. Although Rittenberry's Tennessee driver's license and Kentucky birth certificate say "female," both the Montgomery County Jail and the clinic where Rittenberry claims to have had surgery insist that Rittenberry is still biologically a man.

You'd think at some point during the honeymoon that the groom might notice something's not exactly, you know, right, but he's not exactly sure of what's supposed to go where. What a pain in the ass that must be...

"The marriage is real to me," Rittenberry said in a jail interview. "I could care less about the system. I just wanted me and Jeff to be together. He wanted to marry me and I said 'yes.'"

Well, that's fine I suppose, but I still wonder what's up with the extra pieces. I think a lawsuit is in order..."Doc, you tole me that junk was fixed!"

The same-sex marriage of Rittenberry, also known as Terri Jo Colby, and Phillips took officials by surprise and demonstrates that in Tennessee, gender identification is often a matter of trust.

Well, and eyesight. At some point the Kroger sacks have to come off.

And the poor officials at the County Clerk's office?

"In all honesty, women look like men and men look like women ... so whatever the ID says, we take it as what they are."

Yeah. Glad I don't hang around that County Clerk's office, I'd never keep a meal down.

Farmer said he has never heard of a case like this and expects an investigation to take place.

I'd like to be a fly on the wall when that goes down.

Rittenberry claims to have had a male-to-female genital reassignment surgery in 2003 at the clinic of Dr. Pierre Brassard and Yvon Menard in Montreal, Canada.

Brigitte Morin, medical secretary at the clinic, said in a phone interview that Rittenberry was on file as a patient at the clinic under the name Terry Jo Colby. But, she said, no sex reassignment operation was performed and no documentation was given to Rittenberry verifying such a surgery.

"Turn around three times and click you heels, dear. Now, off you go!"

What about the, you know, "Jail" experience?

Rittenberry was booked in the jail on March 19, charged with domestic assault against a relative and criminal impersonation stemming from allegations of credit card fraud in 2004.

Criminal impersonation. Well, s/he's got that figured out.

Medical personnel at the jail conducted a physical and identified Rittenberry as a man.

"What's that hanging thingy for, again?"

"He still has male genitalia, and as far as the state of Tennessee is concerned and the jail is concerned, he's still a man," Denny said. "He will be treated like a man — with respect — but he has to be treated like a man because all documentation points to his male gender from birth."

That's edgy. And cruel. Can't you just take someone at their word, anymore?

Rittenberry is in isolation for protection.

NO! Tell me it ain't so!

"In a facility like ours or any prison facility, when you have someone to fall in that category, he could be taken advantage of," Denny said. "He is in isolation to keep from being injured or someone hurting him."

Ya think?

Saturday evening, following inmate visitation, Phillips, Rittenberry's husband, sat on the steps of the jail smoking a Marlboro.

He calmly said that from his understanding, Rittenberry did have sex reassignment.

"To me, she's a woman," Phillips said.

He said when he married Rittenberry, he knew Rittenberry was transgender.

When asked if Rittenberry had male or female genitalia, Phillips paused and repeated, "To me, she's a woman."

Still a pain in the ass, I'll warrant.

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UPDATE: Tennessee Voids Marriage of Transgender Couple.

Oh. This.

His (whatever) "Cheerleader" photo.



Now I'm really ill.

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