Do you think it’s fun to have sex with animals, corpses and children?

According to Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, if you’re homosexual, you might as well.

Gohmert battled other state representatives in Congress over the Defense Authorizations bill, not because of military spending, but because it included the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.

This act would extend 1969 hate crime laws to include sexual orientation and gender identity, crimes that rose in frequency between 2005 and 2007, according to FBI statistics.

The U.S. military currently uses the, “Don’t ask, Don’t Tell” policy regarding homosexual soldiers. And Gohmert believes the proposed bill, along with efforts to repeal the DADT law, “holds our soldiers hostage to this sociological attack on what used to be the morals of America.”

He backs up this supposed logic by saying “the definition of sexual orientation is wide open to all kinds of interpretations. if you’re oriented towards animals, bestiality, if you’re oriented towards corpses, towards children, there’s all kinds of perversions.”

The only perversion I see is this man’s offensive misconception morals.

There is no connection whatsoever with homosexuality to bestiality, necrophilia and pedophilia. Opposite and same-sex relationships are built upon mutual consent. There is no mutual consent between humans and animals, corpses and innocent children. It’s because of triumphalist freaks like Gohmert that we need laws to protect the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community.

As of 2007, Georgia no longer recognizes any hate crime laws after a unanimous vote from the state Supreme Court threw out all existing hate crime laws that allowed harsher punishments for crimes committed with prejudice against one’s race, origin and religion.

The argument said they were “unconstitutionally vague,” but this ruling only came when they were trying to decide whether to add sexual orientation as a category under hate crimes.

Gohmert continues his extremist sermon by saying he’d rather pass a bill to sentence more people to the death penalty, and “the victim’s family gets to choose the vehicle and the rope or chain to drag the defendant to his death.”

There is enough hate and death, and not enough love and respect.

- Christine Lines is a senior from Monterey, Calif., majoring in newspapers