This politician blamed marriage equality for rising crime rates.

CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE AND FORMER NC STATE SEN. FERN SHUBERT (R). (Image:: SHUBERT'S 2010 CAMPAIGN FACEBOOK PAGE.)

Republican congressional candidate Fern Shubert has a unique theory about the root cause of crime. In a statement on her campaign website during her unsuccessful 2004 bid for North Carolina governor, she explained that she opposed same-sex marriage because “[t]he government’s…