John Hostettler, the Congressman representing the 8th district of Indiana, has been convinced by local religious groups to introduce legislation in the House that would change the name of an Interstate 69 extension to a more moral sounding number.
There are plans to extend the interstate from Indianapolis through southwestern Indiana all the way through Texas into Mexico in the coming years. While activists are opposed to I-69 for political reasons, religious conservatives believe "I-69" sounds too risque and want to change the interstate's number.
Hostettler, a proponent of the interstate extension, agrees.
"Every time I have been out in the public with an 'I-69' button on my lapel, teenagers point and snicker at it. I have had many ask me if they can have my button. I believe it is time to change the name of the highway. It is the moral thing to do."I'm not sure what has happened to Hostettler's I-69 bill, it's just to good a story to pass up. But Hostettler has certainly kept busy.
He also was the right-wing kneejerk who introduced the Marriage Protection Act. He said,
Recognizing that marriage is a divinely ordained institution - not a social experiment to be reinvented and redefined by a handful of unelected ideologues of the federal judiciary - I am introducing legislation to limit the federal courts’ ability to set a national precedent that undermines marriage as we know it.
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