Republican Congressman Calls for Congressional Study Placing Gay People on Desert Island
One Texas lawmaker who stands against same-sex marriage has called for Congress to implement a study that he believes would prove that homosexuality is unnatural.
While delivering the convocation at Virginia's Liberty University last week, Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas argued that he could prove that same-sex relationships go against nature through an extreme hypothetical study, reports Right Wing Watch.
Gohmert called for Congress to conduct a "totally secular" research study that would place heterosexual couples and gay couples on separate deserted islands and then track their progress a century later.
"Let's just take a totally secular approach to this," he said. "Congress is good about having studies; how about if we take four heterosexual couples and put them on an island where they have everything they need to live and exist and we take four couples of just men and put them on an island where they have all they need to survive and then let's take four couples of just women and put them on an island and then let's come back in 100 years and see which one nature favors."
During his speech, he also criticized the Supreme Court for overturning the national ban on same-sex marriages last summer. Back in July, he slammed Supreme Court Justices Elena Kagan and Ruth Bader Ginsburg for ruling in favor of marriage equality, arguing that they "ought to be impeached" for participating in the case.
"I think they ought to be impeached, I think ought to be removed, and until Congress shows that we do have some say in the Constitution over the courts the abuses are just going to get worse," Gohmert said, according to Right Wing Watch. He also accused the Supreme Court of wanting Americans to "forget what Moses said God said, forget what Jesus said God said, 'We're God and you go by what we say.'"
In addition, Gohmert has also compared the treatment of marriage equality opponents to the Holocuast, reports The Huffington Post.
Watch Rep. Gohmert's speech at Liberty University below.
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