Texas Congressman Says US Should Not Make Gay Space Colonies
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[quote]Every once in a while, the US House of Representatives allows lawmakers to make “general speeches” on the floor so that they can put remarks about their pet issues on the official Congressional record. Thursday, Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert used this time to let everyone know that he firmly believes the US should not make gay space colonies.
The bizarre speech hit many notes—he started by calling trans people “perverse,” then railed against gay marriage for a bit, before suggesting that, should humanity be faced with an Earth-ending event, we should definitely have a Noah’s Ark-type spaceship that could perpetuate the human race but added that we should definitely not put gay people on this spaceship.[/quote]
Well shit that's even MORE of a reason to make gay space colonies.
I [I]guess[/I] I can see the logic behind only putting young, fertile, healthy, heterosexual people on a spaceship meant to survive the actual end of Earth but what the [I]fuck[/I] is the relevance to anything and what the fuck does a Noah's Ark spaceship have to do with trans people and gay marriage in the real world?
(also staffing a colony on, say, Mars with only gay people seems like a solid way to prevent an unwanted and unplanned for pregnancy so gg)
This is the sort of headline that if you'd bring back to the past, people would be really fucking weirded out by the things to come
It's Louie Gohmert. Typical. He once thought Obama was planning to [URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJK7QE9YdfQ0"]resurrect the Ottoman Empire[/URL] so it doesn't surprise me that he'd say something like this.
Its not like everyone in a colony needs to create new spawn, There would be more than enough people doing that already.
Rapid expansion of the human population outside of earth doesn't seem like a very good idea anyhow, Not like we need space faring Human civilizations bickering with each-other, Save the intergalactic warfare for the Xenos
[Quote=John F Kennedy]"The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join it or not, and it is one of the greatest adventures of all time... We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for all people*... We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard..."
[I]*Except the gays [/i][/quote]
[QUOTE=ZuXer;50402867]This is the sort of headline that if you'd bring back to the past, people would be really fucking weirded out by the things to come[/QUOTE]
"I don't understand. Why doesn't he want our intrepid space-men to be happy? I'm sure it's tough out there bringing our manifest destiny to the savage moon-lands, but you shouldn't have to ban gaiety."
[QUOTE=catbarf;50402842]I [I]guess[/I] I can see the logic behind only putting young, fertile, healthy, heterosexual people on a spaceship meant to survive the actual end of Earth but what the [I]fuck[/I] is the relevance to anything and what the fuck does a Noah's Ark spaceship have to do with trans people and gay marriage in the real world?
(also staffing a colony on, say, Mars with only gay people seems like a solid way to prevent an unwanted and unplanned for pregnancy so gg)[/QUOTE]
I'm pretty sure we have enough reliable contraception stuff to not worry about unwanted pregnancy whatsoever. But yeah, considering we won't be able to launch the number of people sufficient to establish a new truly all-sufficient colony on another planet in, like, the next couple of centuries or even more, this is probably not the thing we should worry about.
This guy is legitimately crazy
Depending on the sort of space colony, gay people only missions might be a bit of an upside. You ain't gonna prevent people from doin' the no-pants-hanky-panky no matter how hard you try, and having kids popping out left and right on a mission where everyone has a vital role and measured supplies doesn't seem like a good idea. Bein' gay and having gay sex is a pretty good compromise of 'letting people fuck' and 'making sure babies don't happen'.
This person helps make laws ladies and gentlemen
God the United States truly has a special brand of right wing. It's not moderate right or far right, it's just crazy right. The best comparison Republicans have to a party outside the US is UKIP. John Kaisch and McCain are some of the few republicans I've seen that doesn't spew crazy stuff like this, so I have to respect them for at least that.
US should not make Texas congressmen space colonies
This guy is like a perfect stereotype, he's checking off all the boxes.
What's his salary I wonder?
while colonies are a different story, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind people that you pretty much can't get a boner in microgravity and that's the real tragedy of our future in exploring new ways and places to have fun
"...even if you don't believe Jesus was part of the holy -- like our founding founders did..."
Never mind the writers of the fucking Declaration of Independence and Constitution were Deists and against establishment. I don't understand people who try to argue religious and moral principles in US government, especially when they label themselves as "experts" on the Constitution. It's as if they leave out the establishment clause or Jefferson and Madison's wishes on the wall of separation.
Gohmert is a fucking nut and a national embarrassment. He should be removed from office immediately.
[QUOTE=code_gs;50403364]"...even if you don't believe Jesus was part of the holy -- like our founding founders did..."
Never mind the writers of the fucking Declaration of Independence and Constitution were Deists and against establishment. I don't understand people who try to argue religious and moral principles in US government, especially when they label themselves as "experts" on the Constitution. It's as if they leave out the establishment clause or Jefferson and Madison's wishes on the wall of separation.[/QUOTE]
Because they haven't read either the bible or the constitution.
[QUOTE=Disgruntled;50403431]Gohmert is a fucking nut and a national embarrassment. He should be removed from office immediately.[/QUOTE]
One could argue the same of much of the GOP
[QUOTE]“I really wonder how many people in [Congress], who have the ultimate power to decide whether humanity would go forward or not—if it were an asteroid coming, something that would end humanity on earth as dinosaurs were ended at one time—we have a space ship that will 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?,” Gohmert said.[/QUOTE]
The Ark wouldn't be viable regardless, as forty people do not have the genetic variance to create a sustainable population. Problem solved.
[QUOTE=catbarf;50402842]I [I]guess[/I] I can see the logic behind only putting young, fertile, healthy, [B]heterosexual [/B]people on a spaceship meant to survive the actual end of Earth but what the [I]fuck[/I] is the relevance to anything and what the fuck does a Noah's Ark spaceship have to do with trans people and gay marriage in the real world?
(also staffing a colony on, say, Mars with only gay people seems like a solid way to prevent an unwanted and unplanned for pregnancy so gg)[/QUOTE]
even then you can still have gay people come along since sexuality doesn't really get in the way of contraception.
You can still take a gay female and a gay male and make a baby come out of it, it's just that they probably won't be able to have that much fun doing it.
[QUOTE=dai;50403202]while colonies are a different story, I'd like to take this opportunity to remind people that you pretty much can't get a boner in microgravity and that's the real tragedy of our future in exploring new ways and places to have fun[/QUOTE]
So are they getting people with high blood pressure for that Pornhub kickstarter?
Clearly he's not a fan of the Happy Spacemen.
[QUOTE=Lolkork;50403226]Imagine all the lube floating around in a gay space colony, it would be pretty dangerous.[/QUOTE]
Why would that be dangerous it would keep all the machinery in excellent running order
Well, he said we need to decide which "40" people we put on the spaceship so we're already going to hit a problem there. Homosexuality aside, 40 people do not have enough genetic diversity to create a new population.
Unless we're going to do some Adam and Eve shit and have their daughters and sons mate with each other. God made it okay once, maybe he'll do it again or something. But you better hope he does because otherwise we're going to have some seriously inbred hillybilly astronauts tooling around the cosmos.
best case scenario for a human Ark situation would be retaining genetic material of many thousands of humans.and artifically growing them onsite anyways, the people who crew the ship won't be the ones making the majority of babies
[QUOTE=wrv451nlp;50402876]Its not like everyone in a colony needs to create new spawn, There would be more than enough people doing that already.
Rapid expansion of the human population outside of earth doesn't seem like a very good idea anyhow, Not like we need space faring Human civilizations bickering with each-other, Save the intergalactic warfare for the Xenos[/QUOTE]
Yes lets just die out on earth.
[QUOTE=CodeMonkey3;50405801]we're going to have some seriously inbred hillybilly astronauts tooling around the cosmos.[/QUOTE]
That's not a bad idea for a TV show.
Redneck Star Trek
gays in space
hitting the cinemas in fall 2016
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