Just kidding

That's the shorthand version of the response of a Mississippi lawmaker who proposed that restaurants should not serve obese patrons. Here is the story that describes how the lawmaker only wanted to draw attention to the obesity problem. From the piece published by AHN Media:

A proposed bill that prohibited restaurants from serving obese people was merely an attempt to raise awareness of the obesity problem, explained its author.

House Bill 282, which was announced as scheduled to be vetoed in a subcommittee hearing, was only something that was meant to draw attention to the health concerns of the city, said Rep. John Read (R-Gautier). "Anybody with a sense knows it's not going to happen, not going to pass," said Read, according to the UPI.He then continued that Mississippi had been tagged as the most obese state in the country, and the bill's proposition was meant to draw concern and attention towards the problem. "With all the attention paid to tobacco problems, this was to shed some light on another major problem," Read said. "This has been at least getting the dialogue going." Read insisted that the bill was not meant to anger or hurt anybody's feelings.

TK: Considering that the state does have one of the higher rates of obesity in the U.S., Read is taking a real political risk in this crazy bill. But at least he is getting the discussion going, right?