Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert on Wednesday
criticized a federal court's ruling declaring unconstitutional
California's gay marriage ban, Proposition 8.
On Tuesday, the Ninth Circuit Court of
Appeals said that the 2008-voter approved amendment violated the
constitutional rights of gay and lesbian couples who wish to marry in
California.
In a speech delivered on the House
floor, Gohmert, a Republican with a long history of opposing gay
rights, suggested that marriage is about “the idea of an egg and a
sperm coming together.”
“Iowa voters would often start
laughing and some would just gasp in shock that [the judges] … had
studied and looked at the evidence and could not find any indication
that nature or biology supported marriage between a man and a woman,”
Gohmert
said.
“Nature seemed to like the idea of an
egg and a sperm coming together because of procreation. Apparently
they thought the sperm had far better use some other way
biologically, combining it with something else. But the voters of
Iowa came back and said, 'You know what, if you're not smart enough
to figure out actual pluming … then perhaps we need new judges.'
And that's what they did.”
Gohmert has previously suggested that a
jobs bill sponsored by President Barack Obama was
a nod to gay marriage and that openly
gay military service would be America's downfall.