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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTexas Congressman Warns Against "Gay Space Colonies" to Prevent the Apocalypse
You have already figured out which one.
https://www.inverse.com/article/16263-texas-congressman-warns-against-gay-space-colonies-to-prevent-the-apocalypse
Seriously. Gohmerts speech was a rambling, crazy-beautiful mess of far-right logic, involving Biblical references and what appears to be a nod to either The Martian or Interstellar (they both had Matt Damon in them, so who knows). But Gohmerts main fear during the general speeches portion of House proceedings on the lovely Wednesday afternoon of May 26, 2016 was that in the event of an apocalyptic event, NASA might put some gay people on its Noahs Ark-like colony ship to save the human race.
You can watch a video of his speech (and should, because its pretty funny), but heres the relevant (or, well, more relevant that the other bits) part:
I really wonder how many people in this body who had the ultimate power to decide whether the human race would go forward or not Whether it was an asteroid coming, something that would end humanity on earth, as dinosaurs were ended at one time Ok weve got a spaceship that can 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? Youre wanting to save humankind for posterity, basically a modern day Noah, you have that ability 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 a spacecraft to perpetuate humanity and the wildlife kingdom?
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)This is one of the more insane things I've seen in some time, for a multitude of reasons. It's laughable how stupid those comments are.
villager
(26,001 posts)...separately from human beings?
Or did we just hang out watching the asteroid "end" our dinosaur companions, pets, and scaly cattle, as we went about our merry, God-ordained way?
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,869 posts)gay dinosaurs or the heterosexual ones? Gohmert confuses me. Of course, I would be very worried if I understood him.
villager
(26,001 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)Coventina
(27,227 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,258 posts)I knew exactly who it was the moment I saw the headline.
Different Drummer
(7,682 posts)to know that it was Gohmert.
calimary
(81,612 posts)That IDIOT louie gohmert, or the IDIOT voters in his district who somehow see fit to send him to Congress (and so far, to keep him there). For the life of me, I can't figure out which is worse.
Coventina
(27,227 posts)There are always going to be cranks and lunatics.
However, cranks and lunatics enjoying the majority of support of their peers is scary.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Ned Flanders praying for a faith-based fix for the CO2 scrubbers isn't gonna cut it.
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Rex
(65,616 posts)He keeps proving why we keep saying the GOP is full of insane clowns.
meow2u3
(24,778 posts)When can we launch his crazy ass into orbit?
SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)struggle4progress
(118,379 posts)as our first space colonists
roamer65
(36,748 posts)Wow.