The Texas Republican got very creative -- and very offensive -- in recent remarks against gun control
Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert started to answer a question about a ban on high-capacity magazines during a Tea Party conference call this week, but ended up talking about - wait for it - bestiality.
Here’s what Gohmert had to say about his
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Yeah, homophobes sure do spend a hell of a lot of time thinking about gay sex, sex with more than one other person, pedophilia, and bestiality*....
*Just to be clear, I'm not equating any/all of these things. They just seem to turn up together in a lot of GOP bullshit.
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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For extraordinary (if anecdotal), let's look at the strangely forthcoming Neal Horsley. He admitted in an Alan Colmes interview (first three footnotes...obviously the original source didn't last on the Fox News website) that in his adolescence he would stick it in guys, farm animals, whatever, and implied that anyone who doesn't remember doing so when they were "young and dumb" must be out of touch with everyday life. Clearly he thinks this aimless lust is universal, and that any informed adults still doing any of the things he would are simply lacking the guidance of God that keeps him under control.
Hopefully I don't have to compile and collate all conservative sex scandals for you. I admit that my claim was in the form of a generalization (the less fixated among them may just be arguing from disgust like their secular counterparts) but it was my understanding that casual generalizations about the privileged are okay, nay, sacrosanct in this community.
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The whole thing is definitely INCREDIBLY fucked up.
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Their problem may be as simple as not being able to see even plain vanilla sex as something that isn't evilly sinful.
I think this is probably hit-on-the-head-of-the-nail correct. Think of the Victorian era, not so long past (and still existing within the Bible Belt) where showing skin was "wrong". Masturbation was wrong/evil. Any touching of oneself was suspect, the human body was merely a vessel for reproduction, and you weren't supposed to enjoy it.
My son has asked me more than once why some people think masturbation is wrong; why they think sex is wrong, and I've had to explain to him that some people are brought up being told that it's wrong/bad/evil. (We're in Kentucky, btw, where "Sex Ed" consisted of "say no until marriage".)
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Sorry for any offense.
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