Sorry Gay People: Rep. Gohmert Says No Space Colonies For You
Louie Gohmert: No Gay Space Colonies!, RightWing Watch (with video)
“[Rep. Louie Gohmert R-TX] said that if lawmakers had to decide “whether humanity would go forward or not” in case of an imminent asteroid collision by putting people in a “space ship 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?”
Keith’s note: Yes, Congress is where smart people work in the 18th 21st Century to make life better for all some Americans.
Gohmert easily wins the prize for dumbest member of congress. There is no way he is merely pandering to his constituents, he has a special skill for arguing stupid positions in the most ineffectual and incoherent way possible. This is what happens when the electorate leans too heavily on the idea that “simplicity is a virtue”.
Gohmert has about as much chance of hand picking a space colony to save humanity as he does of himself qualifying – not as much as he might think.
That said, the thought of Gohmert being ejected into Space is not entirely disagreeable. 🙂
Put him on the ‘B’ Ark with the rest of them…
I know. How silly of me.
Logically, rather than any Strangelovian fantasy, you save only women – and two dewars of liquid nitrogen, one for human eggs, the other for human sperm. In the absence of men, you might well want to consider a group of wholly gay women!
What will historians 500 years from now say about this as they dig through all these articles? And 500 years back I’m wondering what types of discussions in the pubs (“blogs” as they had no internet) if any about Columbus, Magellan, etc.
Somebody pull Louie off to one side and remind him that the distinguished Sally Ride , first American woman in space on STS-7 in 1984 , was gay.
Yes, Sally Ride was the first closeted gay woman in space.
The dumbest part of the comment is probably the posited size of the “Save Humanity” colony. 40 isn’t anywhere close to being enough to do that. Gohmert’s objection to same-sex couples on such a mission, on the other hand, seems entirely reasonable. It’s not as though picking an all-hetero founding colony population would mean no gays in the colony long-term.