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Louie Gohmert on DOMA: SCOTUS has defied “laws of nature and nature’s God”

A somber Rep. Gohmert told reporters that gay marriage signals the "end of a great civilization"

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Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, was unusually restrained (well, restrained for Gohmert) during a Wednesday press conference on the Supreme Court decisions on the Defense of Marriage Act and Proposition 8.

Gohmert steered clear of his old standbys of anti-gay rights panic while talking to the press, instead saying, rather somberly, that gay marriage in the United States signals the “end of a great civilization” and scolding the high court for going against “the laws of nature and nature’s God.”

Embedding on the video has been disabled, but you can watch the full thing here.

By Katie McDonough

Katie McDonough is Salon's politics writer, focusing on gender, sexuality and reproductive justice. Follow her on Twitter @kmcdonovgh or email her at kmcdonough@salon.com.


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