Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Tyler) told a television station in his home district this weekend that the Iowa Supreme Court’s recent decision on gay marriage signaled the end of the existence of the American civilization.
“Nature does not allow for generations to proceed on if you have Adam and Steve instead of Adam and Eve. Even to the very earliest city states, when a nation begins to say that this…the relationship between two men and two women sexually is normal, they are normally very close to the end of their existence,” Gohmert told KETK-TV, a Tyler NBC affiliate. The report was broadcast on the station’s 10 p.m. newscast Saturday.
Gohmert, a former state district judge in Smith County, is well-known in Texas as a staunch ultraconservative. Among his most recent antics was a bill to relocate detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to the lawn of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. Gohmert introduced the legislation in response to a ruling by the high court that Guitmo detainees were protected by the United States Constitution.
Gohmert, who one colleague has called a “chickenshit thief,” has previously been criticized for comparing the debate over energy independence to the debate over slavery. One of the ringleaders of attempts to stall the passage of the re-authorization of the Voting Rights Act in 2006, Gohmert has also managed to manipulate the words of Dr. Martin Luther King during an anti-choice rally.
He’s also famous for some bizarre antics on the House floor, including thanking God that House Majority Leader John Murtha wasn’t in Congress after the battle of Normandy, “because we’d all be speaking Japanese.” Video of that incident is below:
April 6, 2009 at 3:57 pm
for our troops. As one civilan expert put it, ” It was horrible – some of the worst electrical work I have ever seen. Read the rest here: Lawsuit Claims KBR Responsible for Deaths of US Troops in Iraq. Vince at Capitol Annex points out thatTexas Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-Tyler) has decided that the Iowa Supreme Court gay marriage decision signals the end of American civilization.
April 6, 2009 at 1:31 pm
d specious historical assertions that are lacking in proof of causation about societies that accept same-sex relationships going belly up. Who’s Gohmert? And why am I tempted to pronounce his name “Gomer”? This is what Capitol Annex has to say about him,Gohmert Says Iowa Gay Marriage Decision Signals Downfall of American Civilization: Gohmert, a former state district judge in Smith County, is well-known in Texas as a staunch ultraconservative. Among his most recent antics was a bill to relocate detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to the lawn of the U.S. Supreme Court building
April 5, 2009 at 1:30 am
Did that knuckle-dragging dumbass really just use “Adam and Steve”?
April 5, 2009 at 10:10 am
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April 5, 2009 at 2:19 pm
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April 6, 2009 at 6:04 am
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April 6, 2009 at 7:09 am
That sure didn’t stop him from having openly gay staffers working in his DC office.
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April 6, 2009 at 5:39 pm
Murtha’s not the House majority leader.
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