Today’s exercise in loony tunes Christianist logic comes, as it so often does, from American Family Association nutjob Bryan Fischer. He writes:

The latest trend in major league baseball is the banning of smokeless tobacco. Liberal city councils in Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston have all banned the use of smokeless tobacco within their city limits, and that ban extends to major league baseball stadiums. California is getting ready to ban it statewide, which will affect stadiums in Oakland, Anaheim, and San Diego, and the state of New York is getting ready to follow suit. The fine for a first offense must be at least $250, and the fine for every subsequent violation in the same year must be at least $2500. This is for a habit, mind you, that is perfectly legal.

But using their own logic, the logic of moralistic liberals who fancy themselves the smartest people in the room, we should start fining people for engaging in homosexual sex. Why? Because sodomy, just like chewing tobacco, is harmful to human health. According to the CDC (not a member of the vast rightwing conspiracy) 60-65% of all male victims of the disease in the history of the epidemic contracted it through having sex with other men. According to the International Journal of Epidemiology, active participation in the homosexual lifestyle can knock 8-20 years off a man’s life expectancy, and reduce it to what it was in 1871.

Thanks to the misguided Lawrence v. Texas Supreme Court ruling of 2003, sodomy is now “legal” everywhere in the United States. Using smokeless tobacco is legal everywhere too. If liberals can find a way to sanction one form of legal behavior because they endanger human health, simple consistency and logic dictate that they should find a way to sanction other forms of legal behavior which do the same. If liberals truly care about the health of all our citizens, it’s the least they can do.