Rep. Tim Huelskamp rails against LGBT rights: God is the ‘third person in your marriage’

[DonViejo]

By David Edwards
Wednesday, February 12, 2014 9:06 EST

Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) on Wednesday told straight couples that God was the “third person in your marriage.”

In an hourlong session on the House floor, Huelskamp was joined by Reps. Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Ted Yoho (R-FL), and others to celebrate so-called “Marriage Week” opposing equal rights for LGBT people.

“And so those who are listening,” Huelskamp said as the hour came to a close. “Whether you’re fathers or mothers or looking at that, recognize that even though society, even though Hollywood will tell us it’s all about you, it’s not! It’s all about someone else. It’s all about that child.”


“This is National Marriage Week, this is a time in our nation, not only to talk about marriage, talk about its impacts, talk about how its loss has hurt our society,” he continued. “At the end of the day, it’s all about how important marriage is. Marriage predates government.”

Huelskamp noted that the Republican Party’s 1856 platform opposed the “twin evils of slavery and barbarism,” which he said referred to “irregular marriage.”

“I just want to speak again to moms and dads and spouses,” the Kansas Republican concluded. “Marriage can be tough. It really is. But God is calling you to do everything you can. It’s just not you and your spouse. There’s a third person in your marriage. And God would like to bless and protect that marriage, and give you many fruitful days ahead.”

After Huelskamp finished his remarks, the chair admonished him for violating House rules by directing his remarks to “a perceived viewing audience.”

Watch the video below from C-SPAN, broadcast Feb. 11, 2013.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/12/rep-tim-huelskamp-rails-against-lgbt-rights-god-is-the-third-person-in-your-marriage/

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[tanyev]

1. So traditional marriage is 2 men and one woman.

Very interesting.

[Motown_Johnny]

3. 4 men: Father, Son, Holy Ghost and Human Husband.

If we assume the Holy Ghost is male.

[pipi_k]

12. hah

I replied the same thing down below without seeing this post first...

[MillennialDem]

7. Nah, God is a woman

[tanyev]

11. Oh, I bet Tim Huelskamp's god is 100% male.

[DonViejo]

19. Butch, too!

[DonViejo]

20. But what if someone believes in the Goddess?...

Does that mean there are two women and one man? But then, if the Goddess believer is also a trinitarian, does that mean, Mom, Son, the Holy Ghost plus the human couple? Wow. Crowded bed!

[DetlefK]

9. Not kidding: Traditional tibetan marriage is 2 men + 1 woman.

[pipi_k]

10. Gets even more interesting

When I was a child I attended a Protestant church, and we always heard about the father, the son, and the holy ghost.

So add a couple more guys, and now it's four men and one woman.

[Swede Atlanta]

2. Marriage is a civil LEGAL contract and has nothing to do with God

A marriage is not a marriage if there is no marriage license issued by a competent authority.

But let's give Mr. Huelskamp some latitude. I'm sure by "God" he means the Judo-Christian God but not Allah or any of the gods of other faiths.

So do those marriages not count? What about only civil marriages (i.e. marriages that are not solemnized by a religious ceremony)?

[hatrack]

4. Sorry, Tim - didn't even invite him to the wedding reception.

Oh, and by the way, blow me.

[Mike Daniels]

5. I think Gingrich's and Sandford's former spouses would argue that there was a third party

in their marriages but it wasn't God.

You'd think that in light of adultery and the divorce rate in general along with the various sexual peccadilloes of numerous Republican leaders and rank and file politicians that the GOP would drop the whole "defense/sanctity of marriage" crap from their arguments regarding their opposition to same-sex marriages.

[DetlefK]

6. Actually, government predates marriage.

Originally, marriage was just a mechanism to share productivity (one in the house and one on the field). Later, it became a legal tool to regulate inheritance.

Marriages weren't even a religious thing until the Middle-Ages.

[FSogol]

8. Woot! A threesome....with Gawd! That won't cause some performance anxiety.

[geek tragedy]

13. menage a jehovah nt

[MineralMan]

14. Holy Threesome, Batman!

[justiceischeap]

15. The implication is that God wants nothing to do with homosexuals

Which kinda goes against the teaching of the bible doesn't it?

[pipi_k]

16. Uh, oh....

something I just thought of...

If the couple breaks up, who gets custody of God?


Is he named in the divorce papers, or does he stay married to each one anyway after the divorce?

And what if each person of a divorced couple, still married to god, marries someone else who also had god in his or marriage? Does that mean there are two Gods in each marriage now?

[shenmue]

17. Who said I have to believe what he believes?

Didn't we get rid of the British theocratic monarchy 238 years ago?

[Paladin]

18. With "Friends" like Huelskamp, Jesus doesn't need that many enemies.

As if Huelskamp has any standing whatsoever to lecture people about marriage, or to stipulate what it takes to be a decent human being. And yet there he is, in the U.S. Congress, with lots of like-minded fanatics to keep him company.

[RedstDem]

21. Hmm. these guys are getting kinky

I like it!

[icymist]

22. Is he trying to say that the fight against gay marriage started in 1856?

Huelskamp noted that the Republican Party’s 1856 platform opposed the “twin evils of slavery and barbarism,” which he said referred to “irregular marriage.”

WTF is that supposed to mean?