Rep. Gohmert: ‘Slavery was a blot’ but U.S. is worse off now

[JRLeft]

Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert says “slavery was a blot” on the United States but the country is actually a lot worse off now because people are “openly rebelling” against God.

During a Tuesday conference call supporting Vision America Pastor Rick Scarborough’s plan for 40 days of prayer asking God to remove ungodly people from office “so that godly people can take their place,” Gohmert warned that the U.S. appeared to be like other failed countries as they moved “toward the end of their existence.”

“There is so much that is so critical to whether or not this country continues,” the congressman explained. “No explanation as to why we’ve been so blessed other than the people who went before us were blessed, they followed God’s rule book, in our founding they followed biblical teachings.”

“We strayed away at different times, Andrew Jackson’s time was not a great time, at different times slavery was a blot on our existence,” he continued. “But the trouble is we have never as an entire nation overall been so far away from God’s teaching and so openly rebelling, even from the top, against God’s teachings in the Bible.”

Earlier this year, Gohmert had blasted the Obama administration’s contraception mandate because he said it was similar to banning communion.

Listen to this audio via Right Wing Watch, recorded on Oct. 16, 2012.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/10/17/rep-gohmert-slavery-was-a-blot-but-u-s-is-worse-off-now/

[kwolf68]

1. Doof

Openly rebellion against God = not adhering to narrow view promoted by right winger interpretation of "god"

[The Magistrate]

2. Iran's Mullahs, Sir, Have A Capital Charge: 'Warring Against God And His Emissaries'...

Perhaps he should emigrate, to somewhere he would feel more at home?

It is clear he is no American, and hates and despises the United States and its people.

[hobbit709]

3. They let Loony Louie out of the attic again.

[jsr]

4. Same idiot who wants the Alaska pipeline built so caribous can have sex

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Can we remove him from office?

[exboyfil]

6. Old Andy Jackson was just following the ethnic cleansing

mandate right there in Deut. and Joshua when he moved all those Indians to Oklahoma. Actually he should have killed them as it is mandated in the good book - maybe we are paying for that sin.

[denverbill]

7. Well, hopefully, god will remove some of these ungodly people from office.

Like the ones who think slavery wasn't so bad, that there are legitimate rapes, that think children should be executed for being disobedient, that think Obama needs to find another copy of his birth certificate, that think we should shoot illegal immigrants, etc.

[malaise]

8. Probably true since no one as ignorant or stupid as

Louie Gohmert would get a microphone in his hands back in the day

[JRLeft]

9. Republicans really are dangerous, racists, bigoted, antiscience troglodytes who hate the ever

changing America.

[Quantess]

10. I am no mind reader, but

I bet he has wondered, occasionally, how great it wouldn't be to own a slave or two.

[WinkyDink]

13. It's in the Bible! ;-)

[no_hypocrisy]

11. Sorry Louie. Constitution prohibits religious tests for pubic officeholders.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. "Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots." Mencken