WATCH: Pro-Equality Judges Need Plumbing Lessons, Says Louie Gohmert

The right-wing Texas congressman finds yet another justification for his homophobia, while Michele Bachmann chimes in as well.

Trudy Ring

Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.

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Texas congressman Louie Gohmert added to his record of outrageous and bizarre antigay remarks Wednesday, when he said that judges who rule in favor of marriage equality "need some basic plumbing lessons."

Gohmert made the comment at "Conversations With Conservatives," a monthly event hosted by the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing think tank based in Washington, D.C., for conservative politicians to meet with the media. Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota was there to get some shots in at marriage equality as well.

When asked about recent court rulings striking down barriers to same-sex marriage, Gohmert said the judges' attitude seems to be "basically, we haven't seen any biological evidence to support marriage being between a man and a woman."

"They need some basic plumbing lessons," he said of such judges. "For one omnipotent, omniscious, ubiquitous federal judge who is wise beyond his education to say -- to make such a declaration about the law, I think, requires revisiting by each state and compliance with the U.S. Supreme Court."

Bachmann denounced President Obama for his decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, a key portion of which was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court last summer. "The legacy of Barack Obama will be of the establishment of lawlessness in the United States," she said.