State Senator Dave Schultheis (R) isn’t the only one stinking up the Colorado Senate floor this week. Joining his brothers-in-hate from the Square States is Colorado State Senator Scott Renfroe.

In Monday’s debate on SB 09-088 (pdf), which would offer health benefits to domestic partners of gay state employees, Sen. Renfroe had this to say, transcript courtesy FreeColorado.com:

Homosexuality is seen as a violation of this natural, created order. And it is in a sense to God, the creator, who created men and women, male and female, for procreation.

Leviticus 18:22 says, “You shall not lie with a man as one lies with a female. It is an abomination.”

Leviticus 20:13 says, “If there is a man who lies with a male as though to lie with a woman, both of them have committed a detestable act, and they shall surely be put to death. Their bloodguiltness is upon them.”

Then Romans 1:18: “For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteous men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.”

And that’s what we’re doing here. We’re suppressing the truth. The truth is what the family was created for in the beginning. That is the a husband, a wife, and children. And that is why we are here, and this goes against that. And this is just a continuation of the traction of the family.

I left out a bunch of preliminaries that you can see on the video. Basically, Sen. Renfroe is arguing that state law should be decided based on [his understanding of] the Bible, which is pretty far into the territory of the government establishing a religion and abridging the rights of those who don’t follow that religion.

He also, in case you missed it, suggested that the government of Colorado should follow Leviticus 20:13, which [according to his understanding] explicitly sets the penalty for homosexuality as death. One wonders where Sen. Renfroe would place the firing squad, inside his district so he could get the revenue, or outside his district so he wouldn’t get complaints about the noise of the gunfire.

But wait! There’s more!

And I’m not saying that this is the only sin that’s out there. Obviously we have sin, we have murder, we have all sorts of sin. We have adultery, and we don’t making those legal, and we would never think to make murder legal.

Here we have an official elected to serve his government suggesting that my having sex with another man is the same as murder. It’s far from the first time I’ve heard it, but one would hope our elected officials would be above that. Oh, and as far as I know, adultery is legal in Colorado, so -100 points on that one too.

Sen. Jennifer Veiga (D), who is the bill’s sponsor, responded to Sen. Renfroe’s speech:

“You say, up here at this microphone, that God created us in a certain structure,” Veiga said.

“I will stand here today and tell you that God also created me. And the last time I checked, I am who I am, people.”

Veiga called Renfroe’s comments “somewhat sad,” and said afterward that “(his statements) are hurtful, but what am I supposed to say?”

Scott Renfroe is the Senator for the 13th district, including Greeley, Evans, Eaton, and most of Weld County. Citizens of the 13th district, does he speak for you? For serious?

P.S. Sen. Renfroe is on Twitter! Shockingly, he hasn’t updated his status since last Tuesday. Must be busy with something else!