Earlier this year, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) endorsed Arizona’s failed “right-to-discriminate” bill for challenging attempts to “establish the religion of secularism.”
In reaction to Mississippi’s enactment a similar law, Gohmert yesterday told Washington Watch host and Family Research Council president Tony Perkins — who stood behind Mississippi’s governor at the bill’s signing ceremony — that he is “so proud of Mississippi and what they’ve done.”
After Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant came on the show to receive Gohmert’s plaudits, the congressmen called the anti-gay law “a wonderful example of real freedom” and attacked gay rights critics as intolerant: “You’ve seen it first hand, there is nobody more intolerant in this country than those that are screaming for tolerance. Christians are not intolerant but whoa, goodness these people that have their leftist agenda that are so intolerant so thanks for having the courage to stand up.”
Gohmert: I sure am proud of Mississippi.
Perkins: It’s good to be here in Mississippi, in fact the governor has just joined me here in the studio. Great leadership team in Mississippi.
Gohmert: Well he could probably care less of what Louie Gohmert thinks but I am sure proud of Mississippi.
Perkins: He says he’s a fan of Louie Gohmert.
Bryant: Absolutely.
Gohmert: We are so proud of Mississippi and what they’ve done.
Perkins: Here’s my co-host Gov. Bryant.
Gohmert: Governor, we are so proud, you have set such a wonderful example of real freedom. You’ve seen it first hand, there is nobody more intolerant in this country than those that are screaming for tolerance. Christians are not intolerant but whoa, goodness these people—
Bryant: It is the world of bizarro.
Gohmert: These people that have their leftist agenda that are so intolerant so thanks for having the courage to stand up.
Bryant: You’re quite welcome, thank you sir.
