Earlier this year, a federal district court judge struck down Texas’ ban on gay marriage but stayed his own ruling until the case could be heard by the appellate court. Last month, a lesbian couple asked the judge to lift his stay so that they could get married since one of the women is pregnant with the couple’s child, arguing that, were something to happen to her, the other woman would not be able to claim legal parenthood. Attorney General Greg Abbott opposed the effort to lift the stay, saying there is no harm is forcing the couple to wait until the appellate court hears the case early next year.

On his “Pray In Jesus Name” program today, Gordon Klingenschmitt, a newly-elected Republican member of the Colorado legislature, discussed this case and wondered why these women were in such a hurry to condemn themselves to Hell.

“Isn’t it a tragedy when you can’t have homosexual sin right away?” he asked, mockingly. “That’s what they’re alleging and, of course, it’s ridiculous. In God’s government, that sin ought to be delayed indefinitely. And, in fact, if they remained abstinent until death, maybe they wouldn’t be punished for the sin that they’re trying to expedite.”

With a sigh, Kilngenschmitt then lamented that “some people are in a hurry to run into Hell”: