Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert really wants to put gays on their own island

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Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert said last week in a speech at a Virginia Christian college that we should isolate groups of gay and straight people on different islands in order to determine “which one nature favors.”

Gohmert, R-Tyler, made the comments, which sound like the set up for a new reality show, last week during a speech at Liberty University, describing the call to action as “totally secular” that could put the same-sex marriage argument to rest:

"How about if we take four heterosexual couples, and put them on an island where they have everything they need to live and exist, and we take four couples of just men and put them on an island where they have all they need to survive," he said in his speech. "Then let's take four couples of just women and put them on an island, and then let's come back in 100 years and see ya know which one nature favors."

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The representative previously made this pitch just after the Supreme Court’s June 26 decision to allow same-sex marriage across the country at a time when he said some of the justices “ought to be impeached” for their actions.

Gohmert has previously compared same-sex marriage to bestiality and linked Christians against same-sex marriage to Jews in the Holocaust.

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