Louie Gohmert tells the Supreme Court: Jesus’ law more important than constitutional law

[TexasTowelie]

Texas Idiot Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert went on a rambling tangent Thursday in Congress that started with his disagreement with the Trans-Pacific Partnership and spiraled into what was almost a sermon denouncing gay marriage.

Gohmert believes the United States was founded as and meant to be a Christian nation and that the laws of Moses and Jesus trump the Supreme Court. The Court is set to issue a ruling on gay marriage later this month.

“It is a matter of a constitutional crisis when the Highest Court in the land not merely strikes down and says that their opinion is more important than Moses’, depicted up there in the center point of this room, more important than Moses’, depicted in the marble wall over the Supreme Court, holding the Ten Commandments,” the congressman said on the House floor.

“The Supreme Court says theirs is more important than the opinions established and stated by Jesus Christ when he said–and he was quoting Moses–that a man shall leave his mother and father, a woman leave her home, and the two will come together and be one flesh, and what God has joined together, let no man put asunder.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/louie-gohmert-tells-the-supreme-court-jesus-law-more-important-than-constitutional-law/

Cross-posted in the Texas Group.

[kentauros]

1. Louie Gohmert

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Poster child for early mental health screening.

I honestly believe he is the stupidest person in office right now. Or even on Earth:

[silvershadow]

2. If that is how he feels, revoke his law license at once. And permanently disbar him. nt

[struggle4progress]

3. The Congressional Record reminds me of Weekly World News

[hobbit709]

4. Article 6, clause 2 is something Louie is evidently not familiar with.

But then there's very little in the Constitution that Louie is familiar with.

[Igel]

8. It's a common enough failing.

There's a moral high above the Constitution, and the SCOTUS is bound first and foremost to honor that law.

WWJD, for Gohmert.

"SCOTUS should side with the people," others.

"What's more important than the words of the Constitution is what is right." Yet others.

Most people look to the Constitution as a tool to be twisted and warped to get it to say what they personally believe. For most politicians and even many judges, in swearing to uphold the Constitution, we actually swear to try to get the Constitution to uphold us by any means possible. In swearing to defend the Constitution and US from all enemies domestic and foreign, the swearers really mean to defend them against their political, economic, and personal enemies, mostly domestic. It's a silly linguistic game we play; it tricks most people, esp. those who want to believe.

We're all judges and wannabe legislators of what the country should be, deciders of what was *really* meant or what the Constitution *should* mean. SCOTUS has a very narrow job: What does the Constitution say, what is a reasonable intepretation for what the laws and principles meant when they were adopted? How does that interact with later laws and attempts to re-interpret the Constitution to comply with others' requirements as to what they find "moral"?

Why is it that my cynicism seems to peak on Saturday?

[Initech]

5. Supreme Court should ban all gay marriage because... Jesus.

Right.

[Motown_Johnny]

6. The real problem is that Jesus never said that.

Well, ok.... that isn't the real problem. But it is another problem.

[edhopper]

7. Gohmert isn't the problem

he is a idiotic asshole, and there are plenty of them.
The fault lies squarely with the ignorant, hateful voters who keep re-electing such a vile POS.