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Archae

(46,349 posts)
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 10:32 PM Jun 2015

Well, Louie Gohmert has weighed in...

With his usual Bible-based stupidity...

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, reacted with guns blzaing, calling the ruling a “civilization-changing decision that destroys our nation’s heritage of Biblical marriage. May God forgive our Supreme Court majority for its arrogance and its self-apotheosis.” Invoking biblical history, he warned, “Both Moses and Jesus stated that it was God’s law that ‘a man will leave his father and mother and a woman will leave her home and the two will come together as one.’ That defined marriage … The Supreme Court ruling is heartbreaking for the turmoil it will mean for our nation’s future.” Gohmert indicated two justices should have recused themselves, observing, “It is clear beyond any doubt that Justices Kagan and Ginsberg have held exceedingly strong opinions that same-sex marriages were constitutional by virtue of their having performed them.” He further warned, “f Moses, Jesus, and contributors to the Bible were correct, God’s hand of protection will be withdrawn as future actions from external and internal forces will soon make clear. I will do all I can to prevent such harm, but I am gravely fearful that the stage has now been set.”

http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/i-will-not-acquiesce-to-an-imperial-court/

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Well, Louie Gohmert has weighed in... (Original Post) Archae Jun 2015 OP
Funny, they complain about 5 people being "tyranny" but think God will blame US for what they do arcane1 Jun 2015 #1
Oh, Louie, haven't you ever watched Betty Bowers? Warpy Jun 2015 #2
Soloman had how many wifes? OffWithTheirHeads Jun 2015 #3
Right... cilla4progress Jun 2015 #4
Ah....a justification for global warming - they figured out it was real and this Laura PourMeADrink Jun 2015 #5
What an ignorant little man Hekate Jun 2015 #6
It's Gooey Louie struggle4progress Jun 2015 #7
Louie Flatpicker Jun 2015 #11
shut up gomer wendylaroux Jun 2015 #8
louie is about 150% full of shit. they're such constitutionalists except the church & state thingy spanone Jun 2015 #9
I am a Christian and I celebrate today's decision LynneSin Jun 2015 #10
Who wants to live a life filled with hate? woodsprite Jun 2015 #16
I use to hate LynneSin Jun 2015 #17
I've seen hate (in the news or my own town) pretty much daily. woodsprite Jun 2015 #18
Cool. By Louie's reckoning, any Justice who owns a gun can't rule on a 2nd Amendment case. . . Journeyman Jun 2015 #12
Tim Wise's reply to that.. PeaceNikki Jun 2015 #13
Imagine how fucking ignorant must be the voters who sufficiently respect this yahoo to . . . . . Stinky The Clown Jun 2015 #14
Yeah that's what happened today. The SCOTUS ordered all hetero couples to divorce. merrily Jun 2015 #15
Louie said "apotheosis?" Now THAT's hard to believe. LOL. Vinca Jun 2015 #19
Juanita Jean had some good comments about Louie Gothmog Jun 2015 #20
 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
1. Funny, they complain about 5 people being "tyranny" but think God will blame US for what they do
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 10:34 PM
Jun 2015

cilla4progress

(24,774 posts)
4. Right...
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 10:34 PM
Jun 2015

so now these blithering idiots get to blame anything/everything bad that happens on this ruling.

Why do we even bother giving them a platform?

Oh, that's right: equally stupid shits voted them in.

Oy!

 

Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
5. Ah....a justification for global warming - they figured out it was real and this
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 10:37 PM
Jun 2015

will be their explanation...God has withdrawn protection

spanone

(135,880 posts)
9. louie is about 150% full of shit. they're such constitutionalists except the church & state thingy
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 10:42 PM
Jun 2015

keep your fucking church out of my politics

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
10. I am a Christian and I celebrate today's decision
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 10:44 PM
Jun 2015

I do not use my faith as a tool to take random bible verses to say this is why I hate.

People need to read the gospels and the actual words of Jesus. He was about love, tolerance and accepting others. He never once condemned homosexuality. That was Old Testament, which outside the 10 commandments is not the laws Christians follow (even chick-fil-a breaks Old Testament laws with selling stuff with bacon) and the guy after Jesus was not one of his disciples. (Paul)

Same sex marriage doesn't change who I am as a Christian or take away any of my rights as a Christian. So why would I want to deny equality to the LGBT community? And I know many members of the LGBT community are also Christian. Also of other faiths too!

Marriage equality is about love. Why would I deny that to any consenting adults. This asshole from Texas - all he is preaching is hate. Who wants to live a life filled with hate?

woodsprite

(11,927 posts)
16. Who wants to live a life filled with hate?
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 01:10 AM
Jun 2015

Probably about 70% of the self-identifying conservate Republican base.

woodsprite

(11,927 posts)
18. I've seen hate (in the news or my own town) pretty much daily.
Sat Jun 27, 2015, 01:33 AM
Jun 2015

I try not to be that way, but to see even a spark of good in people. IMO, It's ok to disagree, even say you hate their actions, but not the people themselves.

I never saw it up close to me until I heard and saw with my own eyes my MIL saying Johnny Cochran deserved to die from brain cancer. I was fighting my own battle with uterine cancer at the time. The hatefulness in her look and the vehemence in her tone. She was like a stranger and I have known her since I was 13 yo (I'm 52 now). This lady who professes to be a Christian, bends over backwards to be publicly recognized as such, showed her true colors that day. I still love her, after all, she's my husband's mother, but I have never thought of or will think of her the same way ever again. I told her that God doesn't use cancer to punish people, and that it was hateful to wish cancer or death on anyone.

Multiply the strength of that hate by how many haters we have out there.... It's scary! It feels like an insurmountable task to turn that around.

Journeyman

(15,040 posts)
12. Cool. By Louie's reckoning, any Justice who owns a gun can't rule on a 2nd Amendment case. . .
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 11:33 PM
Jun 2015

Should make getting that amendment revised a simpler proposition.

(He's an idiot, but unfortunately I can do nothing about it but hope his time will run its course very soon.)

Stinky The Clown

(67,819 posts)
14. Imagine how fucking ignorant must be the voters who sufficiently respect this yahoo to . . . . .
Fri Jun 26, 2015, 11:48 PM
Jun 2015

. . . . . put him in office.

THOSE are the people who are the biggest danger to our country.

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