On her radio show “Truth for Our Time” last week, Republican National Committee member Tamara Scott performed some elaborate feats of mental gymnastics during an interview with fellow RNC member Carolyn McLarty of Oklahoma, in which the two discussed an anti-same-sex marriage amicus brief submitted to the Supreme Court. At one point, Scott posited that “women who are fussing on the left” about institutionalized sexism and gender-based discrimination should actually align themselves with those who oppose same-sex unions, because individual gay and lesbian marriages do not achieve gender equality between men and women.

Let’s try to wrap our minds around this: Heterosexual marriages have equal numbers of men & women, so…what?