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By Travis Gettys
Monday, May 12, 2014 11:28 EDT
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) linked LGBT activism to female genital mutilation and claimed that intolerant fascist liberals want to ban women from owning property.
The lawmaker told Congress on Friday that intellectual fascism violated the civil rights of conservative Christians.
Now, with this new intellectual fascism that has arisen in our universities, some of them far too many of them, actually say: If you disagree with our position, we dont want you here. We want you eliminated. We dont want you to have work. We want your family defiled. We just dont want you to succeed in any way whatsoever, Gohmert said.
Gohmert compared the recent decision by Brandeis University to rescind its offer of an honorary degree to former Dutch politician Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a strong critic of Islam, to HGTVs cancellation of Flip It Forward, starring David and Jason Benham, after their anti-gay statements and activity were publicized.
We see these kinds of receptions for conservatives, for Judeo-Christian believers and followers, people eliminated from being on television because they hold the view espoused by Moses and by Jesus of marriage being between a man and a woman, Gohmert said.
Even as public acceptance for same-sex marriage grows and federal courts strike down state laws prohibiting such unions, Gohmert claims liberals are stifling a viewpoint held by a majority of Americans.
It is amazing that, in the name of liberality in the name of being tolerant this fascist intolerance has arisen, Gohmert said.
He said liberals are using a tactic once employed by Nazis in Germany.
First, they would call people haters and evil and would build up disdain for those people who held those opinions or religious views or religious heritages, Gohmert said. Then next came: Those people are so evil and hateful, so lets bring every book that they have written or has to do with them, and lets start burning the books because we cant tolerate their intolerance.
He said it reminded him of another tactic that he learned about it while serving as a district court judge
As shrinks testified before me during my days as a judge, it was called projecting, Gohmert said. It is those who have a characteristic and to divert condemnation on themselves, they project their characteristic on someone with whom they disagree so the most intolerant in America.
He said proponents of same-sex marriage were filled with hatred for the Judeo-Christian values he said the United States was founded upon.
Those who are the most hate-filled, who do not follow the teachings of Jesus, seek to impose or to project upon those of us who are Christians and some orthodox Jews and even atheists or secularists, like Ms. Ayaan Hirsi Ali their own hate, their own intolerance. We really need to understand what is going on, Gohmert said.
He then compared the cancellation of the cable TV reality show to genital mutilation, forced marriage, and other indignities imposed upon women in other nations.
It is not tolerance that becomes intolerant and says a woman who was tortured I dont know what else you would call some of the procedures that were done to her most private areas in the name of religion, Gohmert said. It was not voluntary.
She was ordered into a marriage she wanted no part of, he continued. She did not want to have to be covered up and stay in a back room and never own property and never drive. She kind of thought, like most of us do in America except for the intolerant fascist liberals that, Gee, women ought to be able to own property, we ought to be able to marry whom we wish, we ought to be able to espouse our own views without being called hatemongers.
Watch Gohmerts remarks in this video:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/05/12/louie-gohmert-compares-reality-tv-show-cancellation-to-female-genital-mutilation/
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randys1
(16,286 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Until this, Allen West had taken over the most ignorant assed wingnut title this morning.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)We tolerate you and you tolerate homosexuals.
Deal?
rurallib
(62,403 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)rurallib
(62,403 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)atreides1
(16,068 posts)He ties his own shoes! And when you have a car pick you up...getting to work isn't really difficult!
Besides, the hard part for Gomer...is finding where he left his office...
jmowreader
(50,546 posts)There are dress loafers, and GPS units can tell you every turn to take.
I've also heard Gohmert's wife writes TGIF in all his shoes. It means Toes Go In First.
Orrex
(63,189 posts)And then ask him how that compares to Flip it Forward getting the axe.
I imagine that the esteemed gentleman from Texas would have a rather different perspective.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)Gothmog
(145,046 posts)sakabatou
(42,146 posts)He just keeps talking and shit pours out.
Initech
(100,054 posts)rustydog
(9,186 posts)Louie, Louie Ghomert to nasty rectal polyps and is being sued for defamation of character by the rectum!
theHandpuppet
(19,964 posts)What's the demographic of his district, anyway? How could anyone not be embarrassed to have Mr. Twilight Zone as their representative??
MineralMan
(146,282 posts)Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)ChisolmTrailDem
(9,463 posts)ashamed that this idiot represents Texas. How in the hell can anyone vote for this stupid, confederate fucker? I understand the low-IQ of the typical Texas consfederate, but damn! They could at least vote for someone who is at least a little smarter than them. That is why you elect people to represent you, right? Nevermind, I must constantly remind myself who we're talking about here.