When the U.S. House of Representatives allows "general speeches," you can expect fireworks. It's a chance for our elected representatives to raise issues important to them that might not normally come up, often because they are insane. Step right up Louie Gohmert, crowned "Padishah Emperor for Life of the Crazy People" by Esquire's Charles P. Pierce, who has some thoughts on same-sex couples and the space colonies of the future.

(Yes, really.)

After taking shots at trans and gay people—including the implication that the old DSM classification of homosexuality as a mental disorder is accurate—Gohmert embarked on a fun little hypothetical where the Earth becomes uninhabitable. (Due to, say, climate change, perhaps? Of course not. Gohmert thinks that's a hoax, but one which might also make more plants grow.) There is a spaceship in this scenario, and it's bound for a colony on another planet, and Gohmert is just asking whether we should let gay people on, OK?

"You're wanting to save humankind for posterity, basically a modern-day Noah. 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?"

Maybe it's time to ask if Louie should be allowed on the spaceship.

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Jack Holmes Politics Editor Jack Holmes is the Politics Editor at Esquire, where he writes daily and edits the Politics Blog with Charles P Pierce.

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