Update: Rep Elliott made Saturday’s front page.

“Every legislator has a responsibility to speak the truth,” said [N.H. Democratic Party Executive Director] Brunelle, who previously represented Manchester in the House of Representatives. “It is totally inappropriate to make these statements that are inflammatory and clearly hurtful.”

Blend contributor Herb, who sent me the link, had this sad comment

My wife and I were at the local diner this morning when I read the article in the telegraph about Elliot.  Two couples were sitting in the next booth and the wife, reading the paper, said “Oh this is awful! They’re teaching kids in the 5th grade about gay sex!”.  She didn’t bother to read the whole article.  I had to turn around and set her straight.  This kind of crap is what the anti gay marriage people depend on – lazy people who don’t check into stories they read or only see what they want to see.

And this is how the Elliott types keep getting reelected.

Here is a video of NH State Representative Nancy Elliott (R-Merrimack) lying to the February 9th executive session of the NH House Judiciary Committee.  The bill under debate was HB 1590, the bill to repeal same-sex marriage.  Sometime after she spoke, the committee voted to kill this bill.  

I’m tempted to ask how much NOM paid her to spread the familiar lie that marriage equality = anal sex instruction in elementary school, but since she embellished on it so descriptively, (“wiggling it around in excrement”) my greatest suspicion is that Rep. Elliott is actually one of the significant percentage of heterosexuals who are or have been practitioners of male-on-female anal intercourse.  A 2006 study by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that “38.2 percent of men between 20 and 39 and 32.6 percent of women ages 18 to 44 engage in heterosexual anal sex”.

Too bad for Rep. Elliott that she didn’t arrange any accomplices to back up her fantasy, because Nashua school Superintendent Mark Conrad said

school officials have asked all elementary school principals about the claim. Conrad said there is no evidence to substantiate Elliott’s comment and no parents have called to complain.

“We don’t have any information that this has occurred,” Conrad said Friday.  [snip]

Conrad said he left a message for Elliott on Friday morning and has not yet heard back.

“We’re not sure how this has come to Rep. Elliott’s attention,” Conrad said. “As a state representative, if she became aware of a concern from a parent about inappropriate subject matter, I would think she would have a responsibility to call us. To my knowledge, she hasn’t done that.”

Conrad said there is health instruction in the elementary schools, but it focuses on health and nutrition.  ”Sexual preference and relationships are not part of the elementary school health curriculum,” Conrad said.

Video and transcript are below the fold.

Rep. Nancy Elliott:  One of the people that came to testify, and they said that this is not normal.  And I had to think about it a while.  You know, what were we talking about.  

And so, you know I started thinking, and we’re talking about taking the penis of one man and putting into the rectum of another man, and wiggling it around in excrement.  And I have to think, I’m not sure, would I allow that to be done to me?  All of us, that could happen to you.  Would you let the happen to you?

Is that normal?  Is that something that we want to portray as the same as the one-flesh union between a man and a woman?   don’t know.

Then I started to think, I remember when we were having the testimony, people were saying that it would be brought up that this would be brought into the schools.  And everybody says no, no that won’t happen, that won’t happen.

Well I heard yesterday from a mother that in the 5th grade in Nashua they were given as part of their classroom instruction naked pictures of two men showing presentation of anal sex.

Off-screen voice: Representative Elliott, let’s keep our discussion directly to the bill and not…

Elliott:  This is directly to the bill because we have marriage of same-sex, they are now teaching it in the public school.  They are showing out 5th graders how they can actually perform this kind of sex.  And they are condoning, they’re saying this is normal.  And this is something that you might want to try.  That is the context of the lesson, that this is something that you as a 5th grader might want to try.

I see it as a real problem in our society.  I see it as a real affront to our citizens that their children are subjected to this.  And so I think that it is important that we revisit what we did.  We made a mistake, we should repeal it.