Should Louie be allowed on the spaceship? Oh, he** no!

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Congressman Says Matt Damon Movie Proves Anti-Gay Discrimination Is Justified
By Judd Legum, May 29, 2016

There have been a lot of justifications for continued discrimination against LGBT people.

Preserving marriage. Religious freedom. Preservation of traditional families.

But in a speech on the House floor this week, Congressman Louis Gohmert took things to the next level. Gohmert argued that we need to discriminate against LGBT people now or the future of humanity is in danger.

How? It’s really quite simple. At some point, a giant asteroid may start barreling toward earth, putting the future of humanity in doubt. We will then need to prepare a special spaceship and send a group of people to colonize Mars.

In case you think this is far-fetched, Gohmert notes this is not a dissimilar scenario from a recent Matt Damon flick, The Martian.

Gohmert postulates that we would only be able to send about 40 people. It’s unclear how he arrives at that number but it seems reasonable. If we can’t discriminate against LGBT people, Gohmert reminds us, all of the people on the special spaceship might end up being same-sex couples.

What will happen to humanity when everyone on Mars is gay? Gohmert is sketchy on the details. But here’s the video, via Right Wing Watch:


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Our Nation's Most Batsh*t Congressman Is Worried About Gay Spaceships
By Jack Holmes, May 27, 2016

[See video above.]

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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