During the Family Research Council’s panel on marriage equality yesterday, conservative activist Alveda King said that it is “impossible” for two people of the same sex to marry.

“It’s impossible to marry two men to each other or two women, it’s just not possible,” King said. “The two cannot become one. It is biologically impossible, scientifically impossible, emotionally impossible, definitely spiritually impossible. You can actually hold a gun, Heaven forbid, and say, ‘do this marriage,’ now he or she may say, ‘okay,’ or they may say, ‘I won’t,’ but even if they speak the words, it is not possible, it is impossible. We have to be able to articulate that on all the levels we just said: spiritual, physical, science.”

King also gave advice on what to say to gay family members, whom she said are experiencing great “confusion.”

King said that she told her children’s godfather, who is gay – a role she gave him before she “understood the Bible,” she said – that his “lifestyle is not going to work for you in eternity” and that he should remain celibate.

She also explained to a “lesbian who is living openly with a lady” that she only “thinks” she is married since she “really can’t be married.”