Louie Gohmert: “Well, thank you. One of the other things that comes to mind is we talk about our freedoms--about the ability to assemble…”

“Well, thank you. One of the other things that comes to mind is we talk about our freedoms--about the ability to assemble and about the freedom of speech, which is the ability to say what is in your heart. We come to what happened last week in England, where a man who was not intentionally out being a nuisance, but he was asked by an officer, according to the article I read, who looks for violations of this type of law, ethics type of law--and this person apparently was homosexual in practice, and he asked the individual about the Bible, about sin. He mentioned drunkenness and a number of things that would be sins as addressed in the Bible and was asked about homosexuality, and he said, yes, under the Bible it's a sin. It's hard to look at Romans 1 and think otherwise. But anyway, this man was arrested. He was put in jail and now is out awaiting trial on his charges. And it was one of the things that concerned us greatly about the Hate Crimes Act because we knew that bill was based on two lies.”