"If you could decide what 40 people you put on the spacecraft that would save humanity, how many of those would be same-sex couples?"

Rep. Louie Gohmert: Gay People Can’t Help If We Need To Restart The Human Race In Space

It’s been a long hot week, so the occasional brain fart can be forgiven. But Texas Representative Louis Gohmert had a major case of verbal diarrhea yesterday when he condemned gay people in space in a speech on the House Floor.

Representatives are allowed to make general speeches from time to time so their opinions can be entered into the Congressional record. On Thursday, Gohmert used his slot to ramble on against LGBT Americans—first by bashing trans people as “perverse,” and then attacking marriage equality.

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Finally he landed on the subject of Armageddon and declared that, should humans have to evacuate the earth in a space ark and perpetuate the species off-planet, gay people should NOT be invited.

I really wonder how many people in [Congress], who have the ultimate power to decide whether humanity would go forward or not—if it were an asteroid coming, something that would end humanity on earth, as dinosaurs were ended at one time, we have a spaceship that will go, as Matt Damon did in the movie, plant a colony somewhere, we can have humans survive this terrible disaster about to befall. If you could decide what 40 people you put on the spacecraft that would save humanity, how many of those would be same-sex couples?”

We don’t have the heart to tell him that 40 people isn’t nearly enough to restart the human race.

You’re wanting to save humankind for posterity… you have the opportunity to be a modern day Noah, you can preserve life. How many same-sex couples would you take from the animal kingdom and from humans to put on the spacecraft to perpetuate humanity and the wildlife kingdom?

Well, seeing as we’ve basically shelved NASA, it’s kind of a moot point, isn’t it?

Why is Gohmert so worked up about gay people on a Doomsday shuttle to space, anyway? Is the Republican Party finally addressing global warming?



