Texas Congressman Warns Against "Gay Space Colonies" to Prevent the Apocalypse

[KamaAina]

You have already figured out which one.

https://www.inverse.com/article/16263-texas-congressman-warns-against-gay-space-colonies-to-prevent-the-apocalypse

Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert took to the floor of the House of Representatives Wednesday morning to warn the American public about a very dire threat facing the continuation of the human race: gay space colonies.

Seriously. Gohmert’s 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 Gohmert’s 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 Noah’s Ark-like colony ship to save the human race.

You can watch a video of his speech (and should, because it’s pretty funny), but here’s 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 we’ve 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? You’re 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]

1. Another blow fly offa Gohmert's pile.

[SuperDutyTX]

2. LOL

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]

3. Wait.. "as dinosaurs were ended at one time!?" He's acknowledging dinosaurs existed

...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]

5. "scaly cattle." BWAH-HA!

[LuvNewcastle]

10. Is he talking about the

gay dinosaurs or the heterosexual ones? Gohmert confuses me. Of course, I would be very worried if I understood him.

[villager]

15. You're right. No mention whatsoever of how fabulous these particular dinosaurs might have been. nt

[NightWatcher]

4. Dropping acid while watching Lost in Space reruns...

[Coventina]

6. I love your first line!

[Bleacher Creature]

7. Why did I even bother double checking???

I knew exactly who it was the moment I saw the headline.

[Different Drummer]

8. I didn't have to read any further than the subject line

to know that it was Gohmert.

[calimary]

9. I don't know which to be more upset, ashamed, and outraged about.

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]

11. The fact that there are enough voters to keep him in office is more worrisome.

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]

12. First thing you'd want for your space colony, I think, is people who actually believe in science.

Ned Flanders praying for a faith-based fix for the CO2 scrubbers isn't gonna cut it.

[Rex]

14. And this man draws a salary and makes choices that effect the entire nation.

He keeps proving why we keep saying the GOP is full of insane clowns.

[meow2u3]

16. Looney Louie is at it again

When can we launch his crazy ass into orbit?

[SickOfTheOnePct]

17. The stupid, it burns n/t

[struggle4progress]

18. I won't have any problem with sending Gohmert and his hand-picked crew

as our first space colonists

[roamer65]

19. The Gopher sounds like he's on a bad acid trip.

Wow.