You know, after what Dan Savage did to Rick Santorum, if my name was as distinctive as "Gohmert," I'd probably keep my mouth shut about this kind of thing.

He is absolutely right, to discriminate against somebody for being attracted to animals or corpses is wrong and should be illegal. The difference between homosexuality and bestiality or necrophilia (other than the mental health implications) is that homosexuality is legal and protected where as sex with animals and corpses is not.

We have legal restrictions on actions not thoughts or feelings. And to legally restrict the military service of individuals with certain feelings who are legally allowed to act on those feelings is just ludicrous. While we are imposing the morality of the few on our troops, why not kick out soldiers who enjoy porn? Or who like blackberry pie?

And how is removing discriminatory policies towards homosexuals similar to Hitler? Hitler discriminated against homosexuals, does Gohmert want us to be like Hitler or not?

I consider myself pretty open-minded, but voting for Alan Keyes? That's just sick.

"When you lose morality in a nation, you create economic instability leading to economic chaos."

So Bush caused the recession through immorality? Hoover as well? Clinton presided over a period of unheralded moral growth?

It's pretty telling when a political movement shamelessly uses the words they claim to value the highest ("morality", "honor","respect" especially "respect for the Commander in Chief" ) while openly refusing to live to any of them.

I like how he quotes Watergate felon and christian prison radio host Chuck Colson. He's appealing to a rather thin demographic.

They really don't grasp the concept of consenting adults, do they? The reason homosexuality should not be illegal and should not be discriminated against is because it involves the activities of people able to make choices about what they want.

Bestiality, necrophilia, pedophilia all involve acts with someone or something that can't physically and/or legally give consent. No consent, no good.

It seems so freakin' simple, and yet, in this guy's mind, it's all the same. Makes me sorry for his wife.

This is just another example of how the fevered brains of conservatives work. The demons they fight are in their own heads.

How do these guys know so much about necrophilia and bestiality?

So non-discrimination of gay people leads to beastiality and Nazism in Gomhert world?

Wow, I am just reminded of Keenan Wynn in "Dr. Stranglove," who continually called Peter Sellers' British officer a "prevert" who committed "preversions."

I am not an expert on this---truly. However, I do recall reading that necrophilia is extremely rare behavior, and is usually accompanied by severe psychosis, hallucinations, and other signs of severe mental illness. I am not sure why this gets mentioned as a "sexual orientation" since there is absolutely no evidence that it is one.

Similarly, bestiality does not appear to be a "sexual orientation". Again, I am no expert, but there doesn't appear to be even one documented case of a human being who falls in love with an animal and wants to be in a lifelong committed relationship with that animal as his spouse, with shared responsibilities. Lots of people love their pets, but that's not the same thing.

Sexual behavior isn't an orientation. Portnoy wasn't in love with calve's liver, no matter how many times he...well, you remember.

It is beyond insulting to pretend that any of these things is even remotely connected to two people who fall in love, and live in a lifelong committed relationship, with shared mortgage, bills, medical, legal and financial decisions.

Is he Cletus Spuckler's cousin?
And by he way, Gomer, the man with the little mustache hated gay people too.

Speaking of Texas, I wish TPM would dig up the muck on "fairy Perry",
rumored to have been caught by his wife, who has since been paid off.

In Austin, we have Dogget; 'course he got tea-bagged. Texas is an
embarassment sometimes.

The people in charge of edumacation here believe the Earth is 4,000
years old. Sigh.

Looks like Louie Gohmert had a drink or two too many at dinner.

How many Fox talking points can this guy possibly include in one brief clip? I loved the reference to "Our friend, Chuck Coulson." Now there's a great moral leader if there ever was one.

Seems The Family, in closing C Street, has left Louie homeless, as well as brainless. It must be he's missing all his man-pals from the prayer cell, admitting in public to Alan Keys love and extolling the terrors of sexually orientated induced economic instability. Poor lil' guy is lost.

The stupidest thing about homophobes like Gohmert is that they think gay sex is the same as all forms of non-consensual sex (e.g., pedophilia, necrophilia, beastiality, etc). Now, gays deserve the same civil and legal rights as everyone else, but NO ONE is suggesting that we legalize having sex with children, corpses or animals. From where Gohmert and others of his simpleminded ilk get their ideas we can only speculate. However, it seems likely they come from some secret store of perverted fantasy that periodically wells to the surface without their control, and speeches like this are one way they try to channel their dark impulses into a socially-acceptable form of expression.

aren't most crimes 'hate crimes'? a group of black teens just beat to death another black teen in chicago. they hated him because he was in the national honor society. gays kill other gays, is that a hate crime? you have to hate to kill. it seems to me the only ones who ever get charged with 'hate crimes' are straight white males. some 10 years or so ago, two white males in texas chained a black man behind their truck and dragged him till he was dead. they were tried and found guilty, they were executed. the left was upset that they were also not charged with a hate crime. THEY WERE EXECUTED. it seems that was not enough.

the black teens murdered another black teen because he was in the NHA, a clear message to other NHA members. as for the guys in texas i think the execution of them says it all. if 2 black guys in texas did it to a white would it be prosecuted as a hate crime? wouldn't they be just as dead either way? if 2 gays kill a straight would it be a hate crime?there are some pretty radical gays out there. sorry, i think all crime is, at its core, hateful. whether you are bernie madoff ripping off investors, or 2 white guys in texas murdering a black man.