Congressman Wants Gays Banished To Deserted Island For “100 To 200 Years”

[DonViejo]

Rep. Louie Gohmert from Texas says he can prove same-sex marriage goes against nature. All he needs are eight gay men, a deserted island, and a couple of centuries.

While speaking before a group of impressionable young conservatives last week, Gohmert proposed a plan to prove, once and for all, that God intended marriage to be between one man and one woman by conducting a “science” experiment, an odd gambit for Gohmert, who flatly rejects sexual orientation science.

“We could take four heterosexual couples, married, and put them on an island where they have everything they need to sustain life,” he said. “Then take four all-male couples and put them on an island with all they need to sustain life, take four couples of women, married, and put them on an island, and let’s come back in 100 to 200 years and see which one nature says is the preferred marriage.”

There’s just one teeny tiny flaw in Gohmert’s experiment: The average life expectancy of a human being is approximately 80 years. So how does he plan on returning to check on things when the 100 to 200 years are up? However, we do like the idea of living on a tropical island with a bunch of gay guys at the government’s expense. Now that would be an interesting experiment.

Gohmert also had some choice words for the Supreme Court, accusing the justices of usurping God by saying “forget what Moses said God said, forget what Jesus said God said, we’re God and you go by what we say!” No mention of the that little document known as the Constitution.
He also insisted Justices Elena Kagan and Ruth Bader Ginsburg “ought to be impeached” for officiating over the weddings of same-sex couples.

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[hobbit709]

1. Louie is so far around the bend that he meets himself coming.

[enlightenment]

4. Unless he runs into

Huckabee on the last curve . . .

[Arugula Latte]

21. If he meets himself, that makes him a ...

*gasp* ... male couple!

[MFrohike]

35. That's one hell of an image

Best description I've ever heard of him.

[VanillaRhapsody]

2. He thinks its the only way that will stop those "damnable improper urges" he keeps having

if they would only go away...all of them....surely then he would no longer spend so much time thinking about naked men!

[SamKnause]

3. What Louie fails to understand or admit

is that not everyone believes in his 'God'.

Religion is the only excuse to be against same sex marriage.

I prefer we abide by Separation of Church and State.

Religion has no place in governmental policies.

[RKP5637]

6. K&R! Yep, he fails to understand that freedom "of" religion also means freedom "from" religion. n/t

[SamKnause]

7. The new talking point is it means exactly the opposite.

I have heard several Republican law makers say there is no freedom

from religion.

They want the U.S. to be a Corporate Theocracy.

They sicken me to my very core !!!!!!!!!!

[RKP5637]

8. And we can look at the conflicts in other parts of the world to see what that brings. It is sad

and pathetic that such sociopaths and fools have risen in the US into often positions of political power. It's very sad looking at the republican presidential hopefuls. Most of them if not all are still bullies on the grade school playground IMO.

[RKP5637]

5. He's got a lot of baggage floating around in his head with all of the psychological projection he

engages in. He really needs some counseling to work through his desires/urges.

[SamKnause]

9. I would like to conduct an experiment.

First ALL Republicans would be sterilized.

Then place ALL of them on an island under an impenetrable dome.

Give them all the supplies necessary to sustain a pleasant

and comfortable life and leave them there FOREVER !!!!!

No one gets in, No one gets out.

The world would rapidly improve for the masses.

P.S. I would also include billionaires, Kings, Queens, Princes, Princesses, and Dictators.

[hifiguy]

33. "Under The Dome" becomes "Under The Dumb."

[3catwoman3]

10. When I saw the title, I wondered which...

...yahoo it was going to be. Gohmert was one of my top choices.

[Archae]

20. Same here.

Gohmert is the stupidest in Congress, now that Michele Bachmann is gone.

[hifiguy]

32. He's usually a very safe bet when it comes to

cement-headed idiocy.

[Thinkingabout]

11. What is needed is an island for stupid GOP people who says stupid things. A six month sentence for

all stupid comments and Louie would never return to the US, and he can take Ted Cruz with him.

[jberryhill]

14. But what about the people already in Australia?

The flaw in your plan is finding a large enough island.

[Charles de Gaudless]

17. Send 'em to Mars

And let them exercise that free-market entrepreneurial spirit they're always blathering about as they struggle to survive.

[Rex]

12. .

[tanyev]

13. It's highly doubtful that four heterosexual couples would be enough people

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to sustain a successful community for 200 years. And it's very possible that some of their descendants would be gay. Effing moron.

[nashville_brook]

15. that would be one fabulous island.

someone had to say it.

[onenote]

16. Even if the four heterosexual couples could "sustain life"

They wouldn't have to be married to do so. The link between procreation and marriage exists in Louie's mind, not in his god's universe.

[rocktivity]

18. But people were procreating BEFORE there was such a thing as marriage

Indeed, they were procreating before there was such a thing as God.


rocktivity

[Initech]

19. On the plus side: party all day and all night for 100 years!

[3catwoman3]

22. Slighty OT, but why not?

Has anyone ever gotten a good fundie answer to how "Adam and Eve" could have founded the whole human race without committing incest with their offspring? Or the offspring committing with each other? Where did the women come from for their sons to procreate with?

[hifiguy]

31. Literal interpretations of the buybull are so easy to smash to bits

that a reasonably smart and scientifically literate 12-year-old can accomplish the feat with a half-dozen well-chosen questions and leave nothing but a smoking rubble of pure, 100% nonsense.

And the allegorical interpretations don't exactly require an Einstein either.

Sam Harris had a great line - "Substitute 'Zeus' for 'god'" in any line and consider the silliness of the results.

[Fawke Em]

37. Try a literate 5 year old.

It was the first question I asked upon reading the Bible.

My Dad was proud.

[hifiguy]

39. I read everything when I was a wee lad

And eventually I came to those fairy tales. I started seriously doubting at the first mention of people hundreds of years old. I was about six. But I knew my grandpa was old and he was only 78 or so. I sensibly thought that if things started off with nonsense about 700 year old people the rest of it was probably made-up nonsense as well.

Agnostic leaning atheist by the time I was 12 and Sagan's Cosmos made me realize at 23 that I'd already been a scientific atheist and secular humanist for a VERY long time.

That is why Sagan is one of my very few personal heroes, along with Einstein, RFK and Nelson Mandela.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

23. I think it's a great idea - every heterosexual individual should be sent to a same sex island

For those who want us to "go and multiply", we have gone and multiplied and multiplied and multiplied...

There are more than double the people in America now as when I was a child. We are draining every aquifer of water, polluting every stream, killing off the fish, hunting endangered species to extinction and near extinction (Cecil's brother was just killed according to the news today by another illegal hunter), developing every corner of livable ground that greedy developers can develop, melting the glaciers with our endless carbon outpourings. You can't even walk in your back yard without some drone hovering overhead sent by an idiot who just wants an obnoxious hobby.

There are too many people on Earth. Stop procreating already.

[RedCappedBandit]

24. So what does overpopulation tell us?

[jmowreader]

25. I see another teeny tiny flaw

What happens if the four heterosexual couples together produce 15 male children and one female child, and the female child falls in the water and drowns at the age of six? If anyone should know there's no guarantee human reproduction will produce an equal distribution of the genders in the offspring, it's a Congressman with three daughters and no sons.

[Fawke Em]

38. Worse.

What if she remains and becomes a brood mare.

Ugh.

[jmowreader]

41. Not only "ugh," but there'd be significant problems there

What happens if she's a carrier of a birth defect - especially one that's lethal?

Obviously Mullah Huckabee didn't think this shit through; obviously a whole island full of people all the same gender is a recipe for disaster. Or worse, he DID think it through and his mind is that fucked. But let's throw out an idea here: We take two islands. One we will populate with eight monogamous heterosexual married couples - sixteen people in all. The other we will populate with four homosexual married male couples and four homosexual married female couples. Go two hundred years down the road, and which population would be more genetically diverse? I posit the second island would be better off; since they would consider procreative sex to be more of a business transaction than anything else, each child would potentially have a different set of parents - therefore making it less likely that any birth defects would show up in more than one kid. OTOH, on Hetero Island the couples would be fucking as furiously as they could but the same pairings would always happen...potentially putting nine or ten genetic-time-bomb kiddies into the population.

[liberal N proud]

26. How do these idiots get elected?

[jberryhill]

27. Your punctuation is the problem

This is how these idiots get elected!


I hate to break it to you, but they are truly representative of the people who elected them.

Can you imagine what it's like it Gohmert's district? If you can make flint points, you can probably run the place.

[hifiguy]

30. Eeyup.

There are congressional districts in almost all states in this country where the majority is some mix of screeching paranoids, cave orcs, duck-fuckers, toenail-chewing imbeciles, the religulously insane, and many who are all of the above at once.

And they are completely ineducable.

[3catwoman3]

36. That's quite the descriptive list.

Thanks for the Saturday evening giggle.

[hifiguy]

40. I read a lot of Hunter Thompson

and Harlan Ellison in my impressionable late teens. From them I was inspired to work on a powerful, vivid, descriptive vocabulary.

[jmowreader]

42. Geeze dude, how did you know ID-1 is exactly like that?

Problem is, ID-2 is also exactly like that, and we only have two districts.

[hifiguy]

44. I live in Minnesota.

The districts of the wonderful Betty McCollum and the unspeakable Batshit Bachmann, now retired, abut each other.

Th first, urban and "old" suburban, the latter new money suburban and exurban with lots of fundy churches.

[GoCubsGo]

28. Gohmert. That figures. n/t

[hifiguy]

29. Gomer's brain can only be measured

by using the Planck dimensions. If then.

[hifiguy]

45. Nobody got my physics nerd joke?

Insert sad kitten pic here.

[Lil Missy]

34. One problem - most gays have heterosexual parents. oops!

[Kurska]

43. Neither population would survive 200 years very well

4 Breeding pairs isn't enough to ensure genetic diversity.

That is about 8 generations and from a very limited breeding pool, inbreeding is highly likely.

Depending on if they had something particularly nasty recessive genes, the population could actually be wiped out. This would especially be the case if they weren't killing children with birth defects, which was something smaller population groups had to do in the past (generally via exposure) if they had limited genetic stock.

The minimal viable population for that scenario would probably be around 10 breeding pairs. If you wanted to last a longer period of time the higher that number goes up.

He would know this is he ever opened up a book.

[hifiguy]

46. In Gomer's family cousins have been marrying

cousins for a few generations. He's walking proof.

[oberliner]

48. Headline is BS

He doesn't say that.

He presents a stupid thought experiment involving both straight and gay couples put on deserted islands.

The headline is just a blatant lie.