Politicians generally have attention-grabbing views.
As we’re seeing within the present presidential campaign, occasionally they even express them.
It’s heartening, due to this fact, to listen to what Texas Congressman Louie Gohmert, a Republican, thinks about space.
Speaking within the House of Representatives, Gohmert provided some perspective on life and the universe.
He defined that God made folks female and male. There have been no “question marks.” Gohmert mentioned that all through historical past trans/gay individuals have been considered merely “perverse.”
This led him, in a barely meandering method, to the notion of humanity’s ending. It was fairly a meandering:
I actually surprise how many individuals in [the House], who’ve the ultimate power to resolve whether or not humanity would go ahead or not — whether or not it was an asteroid coming, one thing that might finish humanity on Earth as dinosaurs have been ended at one time — we have got a spaceship that may go, as Matt Damon did within the film, plant a colony someplace. We can have people survive this horrible catastrophe about to befall. If you could possibly resolve what 40 individuals you placed on the spacecraft that will save humanity, what number of of these can be same-sex couples?
Yes, he wished these listening to place themselves within the place of a “modern-day Noah.”
He conceded that some animals are literally gay, however concurrently urged it wasn’t price taking gay animals into area both to avoid wasting our species and the wildlife kingdom.
The United States, he mentioned, was based by “the grace of God.” God created it “as an instrument to bless the world.”
“This nation — even for those that have not recognized the exceptional nature of the United States, it’s still a fact,” he mentioned.
Some may want to remind Gohmert that the notion of American exceptionalism
And information have all the time been difficult issues. This is one thing that even Gohmert’s personal presidential nominee admits.
I desire to focus, although, on the concept our Earth will quickly be too rotten to inhabit. Stephen Hawking, amongst others, believes that we are going to certainly have to flee early.
This means we’ll all have to flee. We’ll be leaping on rockets mass-produced by Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk and heading for the Planet Zog.
And by the point we get there, I fancy, science can have made all types of progress.
We’ll have discovered all types of fascinating methods to breed, ones that intellectuals comparable to Louie Gohmert could not conceive of.
We’ll additionally hopefully have discovered a technique to do with out politics in any respect.
