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Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) Speaks About Matthew Shepard Act On House Floor

by: Autumn Sandeen

Wed Oct 07, 2009 at 02:00:00 AM EDT



Update: fixed my transcription error of writing Iman, when it should have been Imam.
~~Autumn~~

As a disabled, Persian Gulf War Veteran, who served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy, and who is transgender -- as a new media reporter for Pam's House Blend who covered the Angie Zapata Hate Crime Murder Trial -- this is a painful House Floor speech to watch.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) states that the Matthew Shepard Act holds soldiers' well being  hostage. Then, the congressman later in his speech is so interested in protecting the free speech of faith leaders that he minimizes the bill's focus on the victims of hate crime homicides. It's a value system that seems completely upside down.


Excerpts:

...I see a real distinction in holding our soldiers' very well being hostage to this the sociological attack on what used to be the morals of America.

...Now, there are those who say that this will not effect religious speech, but when we have debated this bill, and people have looked at it carefully, you see that this circumstance can arise. A preacher preaching from the Bible, a rabbi preaching from the Torah, an Imam teaching from the Koran says, in his opinion ,homosexuality is wrong. Some nut hears 'em, goes out commits commits an act of violence, and when arrested says "Well I was induced to do this by the preacher, or the Imam, or the rabbi."

Well under 18 USC 2a, it says that anyone who induces another to commit a crime is just as guilty of the crime as the one who commited it. That's where the preacher, the Imam, the rabbi could be arrested...arresting and detaining has a chilling effect -- there's no two ways about it...

I don't say this phrase often, but I'm saying it now: I'm appalled. I'm literally appalled by this speech given on the Congressional House Floor. What a painful speech this was to watch.

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Good, if the preacher or imam or rabbi is using hate speech
that incites violence, they should be held repsonsible.  As should Glenn Beck, Sara Palin, Maggie Gallagher and the rest of the right wing goons in the U.S.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.-- Thomas Jefferson

Here! Here!
We should definitely hold Gohmert to his word as well.

[ Parent ]
Actually they are already criminally responsible
It is a crime in all 50 states and in federal law to incite violence. If some anti-gay hatemonger stands up in his "church" and states that gay people should be eliminated and one of his congregation follows that prompts and attacks gay people IT IS ALREADY A CRIME (sorry for shouting).

The only change the Hate Crimes law would make would be to allow the federal government to step in, particularly if a locality refused to prosecute because the leadership of the locality were also homophobic.  


[ Parent ]
If you all remember....
Some years back, Morris Dees had one of his earliest successes when he was able to put rabid hatemonger Tom Metzger's White Atyan Resistance (WAR) group out of existence.

Metzger was convited of training some racist skinheads, and incited them to kill Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian man who came to the United States to attend college.

The Oregon jury nailed the bigot with a $12.5 million judgment, which Metzger must still pay off.

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[ Parent ]
I cross my fingers and think
In a week we might NEVER have to hear from this F*CKTARD or his ilk, about another HATE CRIME, it will be settled and we WON.

The enemy is never as viscious as at the last minute they are backed into a corner.
this is their LAST GASP.

and good riddance!

What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small


Where it could lead.....
That's where the preacher, the Iman, the rabbi could be arrested...

Well, if she induced someone into making Star Trek VI, she should be arrested.

Just kidding. VI was a decent flick.

On the other hand, whoever was involved in Star Trek V......

>^..^<


He's from Texas!
What else would you expect?

This Veteran is Offended
I am also a 20 year retiree of the US Navy, an openly gay man and a political activist and I am personally offended by the "Honorable" Congressman from Texas.  It is shocking and I'm at a lose of words to respond.

Like dealing with an brick wall of ignorance
Gohmert has been pushing that lie since 2007 when he helped to create it and spread it via the Traditional Values Coalition.

It has been refuted continuously but apparently he has his fingers placed in his ears.


And a thumb up his...


Cisgender. Because "Genetic" is so 2006.

[ Parent ]
What was that?
Why did he feel it necessary to say in the Matthew Shepard case "the defendants now say that is was a robbery gone bad."? @1:40 into the video, he says that.
I, too, am appalled.

A closed mind is like an unfed lake. It becomes stagnant, dark and unsuitable to sustain life.  

thank 20/20 for that damn revisionist history


What have you done today, to make ya feel PROUD?


~Heather Small


[ Parent ]
two quick thoughts
1. If this jerk even pretends to be a Christian, he should know that it is Jesus who has said exactly what he is objecting to: anyone inciting violence against another is as guilty of the sin as the one who commits the act.

In Jesus's teachings, you are not off the hook if you never commit a sin but you harbor the thoughts in your heart. Remember, that's the quote that got Carter in trouble? He admitted to lust in his heart for other women, and he acknowledged that that was sinful according to his beliefs...

2. If this jerk is one of those Fundies who wants an American theocracy, he can start by supporting a law that reflects the teachings of Jesus, right? So, inciting violence should be against a good theocrat's laws, just as lust, avarice, etc. should also be.

Of course, if the guy is just a bloviating hypocrite, he wants nothing more of faith than to use it to make a show of how pious he wants to appear to be so he can tell everyone else what to do - and Jesus had quite a bit to say about that too.

In fact, Jesus had a lot more to say about hypocrites who make a show of faith rather than a practice, then he ever did about gays, or transgendered.


Louie Gohmert......
...Is a shitbag of the highest order (I should know, I used to live in his district)

False Prophet!?!
"A preacher preaching from the Bible, a rabbi preaching from the Torah, an Imam teaching from the Koran says, in his opinion ,homosexuality is wrong."

First of all, they should NOT be preaching about people's private lives. It is not their business to begin with.
Second, It is not wrong for people to love one another. That is the saddest part of it all. These false prophets that their Bible warns people about do not have a direct line to God, no matter how hard they try to dupe their own parishioners. This is what makes organized religion wrong.
Third, Churches need to stick to the holy gospels. Jesus said nothing, absolutely nothing about homosexuality.
Why aren't these churches that want to be involved with making policy and preaching about government taxed? I always was taught about the separation of church and state. This has gotten so far out of hand, they should all be taxed. They bring in the money not to help the least among us, as Jesus taught, but to build huge mega churches and to hire lobbyists. If there is any kind of classification of sin, then what these faux preachers are is mortal sinners.


Nonsense.
According to your Bible, God has a direct line to false prophets, and God deliberately deceives his flock, then punishes them for it.

1 Kings 20-23: And the LORD said, Who shall persuade Ahab, that he may go up and fall at Ramothgilead? And one said on this manner, and another said on that manner. And there came forth a spirit, and stood before the LORD, and said, I will persuade him. And the LORD said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and I will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt persude him, and prevail also: go forth, and do so. Now therefore, behold, the LORD hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and the LORD hath spoken evil concerning thee.

This story is basically repeated in 2 Chronicles 18.

In Ezekiel 14:9-10 And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel. And they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of the prophet shall be even as the punishment of him that seeketh unto him.

Your God is not very nice.


[ Parent ]
Oh, please
As though troops are never victims of hate crimes based on race, religion, real or perceived sexual orientation, or disability.

Don't you have a secession party to plan, Louie? Get out of my country, you treasonous piece of shit.

God save ornery old queens! - kevinchi


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