Utahn is starving himself to death in protest of gay marriage.

[Gravitycollapse]

http://www.bilerico.com/2014/01/desperate_utahn_vows_to_starve_self_until_gays_can.php

Trestin Meacham, a 35-year-old unhinged whackjob former Constitution Party candidate for the Utah State Senate, says he is fasting to stop same-sex marriage in Utah.

Meacham, who claims to have begun his fast on the day that U.S. District Judge Robert Shelby ruled Utah's marriage discrimination amendment unconstitutional, says he's lost 25 pounds so far.

His goal is to draw attention to the discredited legal theory of "nullification." This bogus theory holds that states -- not the federal government -- hold supreme authority and have the right to invalidate any federal law they like.

Of course, the Supreme Court has repeatedly dismissed the notion that states have the power to unilaterally overrule federal law, and the country fought a nasty 19th-century skirmish called the Civil War that should have put nullification to bed permanently. However, many southern states cited the concept in the 1950s in their racist effort to prevent public school integration before the Supremes smacked it down again in their 1958 Cooper v. Aaron decision.

Let's get some bets going on how long he lasts.

I give him another week.

[LiberalElite]

1. Hope he has a will. n/t

[one_voice]

2. Karma will kick my ass...

if I say what I want to say about him.

How much weight does he have to lose before he disappears?

Damn it here comes karma....

[JoePhilly]

3. A real man would have his mouth wired

shut, to prove he means it!!

[dimbear]

4. Fasting can be kind of boring. Hope he has some porn. And know what would go good with that?

Snacks.

[NYC_SKP]

5. Mmmm. Porn Flakes!

Porn on the cob!

[Wait Wut]

6. Cool.

He seems awfully energetic for someone who hasn't eaten in 12 days. Vitamin supplements will only go so far. Know what I'm sayin'?

[nomorenomore08]

16. He's due for a crash any time. Just wait for it... n/t

[jberryhill]

7. "This bogus theory..."

[dipsydoodle]

8. If he was serious

he stop drinking too.

[longship]

9. Constitution Party == Dominionist Theocrats.

Look it up. These people are serious lunatics.

If they ever won power, Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale would be an opening act.

[CanonRay]

31. Exactly right, and the Cruz family are their leaders

Ted's father is one of the spiritual leaders, and Ted is their political guru and hopeful.

[Dr. Strange]

10. Wow, someone is really starving for attention.

[cinnabonbon]

32. +1

[Ms. Toad]

11. Well - his public facebook page about his fast

seems to have vanished. Perhaps he got unwelcome attention? I was going to be polite - but I did head there intending to politely disabuse him of some of his inaccurate understanding of the law.

[struggle4progress]

12. That seems extreme. Why doesn't he just get together with a few thousand of his closest friends

and lobby Congress for NASA money to send them off as our first Mars colonists? The program still needs a snappy title -- Stop Gay Marriage on Mars or something -- but I'm pretty sure somebody clever can supply that. I bet lots of DUers could support the project: I know I would

[Squinch]

34. I hear Hale Bop is coming around again. Maybe they can hitch a ride?

[kestrel91316]

13. I'm very embarrassed to report that he's probably a distant cousin of mine on his and my dads' sides

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. Aren't ya glad he is "distant"?

No sweat, kestrel..a lot of us have whack jobs somewhere on the family tree...
and no chainsaw.

[Comrade Grumpy]

14. Um, okay.

[Zorra]

15. Let us know how that works out for ya, kid. nt

[Aristus]

18. Isn't that nice of him?

He wants to reduce the population of haters in Utah by one, at least.

Nice of you to take one for our team...

Hang in there, fellah!

May I offer you nothing to eat?

[Mnemosyne]

19. I think he should hold his breath too. nt

[Iggo]

20. Aw, that's a shame.

[smackd]

21. well...bye

http://m.

[BlueToTheBone]

22. 2 days max is my estimate

and then someone will have a nice steak on their grill and he'll come snatch it off and eat it half raw.

[spanone]

23. whatever. so sick of energy wasted on hate.

fuck you meacham

[Hassin Bin Sober]

24. My boyfriend and I volunteeer to fly there and make out in front of him if it strengthens his will

[DemocraticWing]

25. Great way to lose weight.

He'll have to start feeding on his hate after all the fat burns off though.

[indie9197]

26. What a stupid way to die. But I am sure he will have

a "revelation" or something where God tells him to save himself for a different fight or something like that.

[Iggo]

35. What a stupid way to live.

At least he's consistent.

[minivan2]

27. Psst... idiot

this is not how you win a fight.

[backscatter712]

28. Someone should set up a barbecue grill upwind of him.

Let's see, I'd cook up some burgers, some brats, some nice, juicy steaks, some ribs.

Maybe we should also bring a smoker. To make sure the smell is as heavenly as possible.

I want this tool to know what he's missing...

[polichick]

29. Another choice might have been to come out of the closet...

if history tells us anything about right-wingers who protest too much.

[onethatcares]

30. I wonder what his attitude is

about the prison hunger strikes, or the ones at Gitmo?

Does he feel they are justified or just another bunch of whackjobs looking for attention?

My bet is on the latter.

[B Calm]

33. So he goes on a diet and makes it into a political statement,

what a phony. . He won't last long. . .