In an interview on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal,” Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) suggested on Wednesday that if four married heterosexual couples, four gay couples, and four lesbian couples were sent to live on separate islands, nature would dictate which civilization would survive 200 years later.
“If you took four couples – men and women, a couple, man and wife – and you put those four couples on an island that had everything needed to survive and then you … put four couples of men on another island with all they need to survive, and then another island, four couples of women with all they need to survive and come back in 200 years and see – if you don’t believe in God at all – see what nature has done - which group, which civilization has survived and which has ended,” Gohmert said.
“And I think that will tell us, even if you don’t believe in God, what nature dictates should be a marriage, a building block,” he said.
Gohmert also proposed a legal fix to address specific situations where gay couples are prohibited from visiting their significant other in the hospital or from leaving property to a significant other after they die.
“People that have loved individuals from the same sex and been prohibited from seeing them in the hospital – those kind of things we should fix. If you love somebody and they love you, you ought to be able to see them in the hospital. You ought to be able to leave them property,” he said.
“There are a lot of things we could fix without destroying the building block,” Gohmert added.
