“Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) on Wednesday told African-Americans that they had fought in the Civil Rights Movement for the right to support an Arizona bill that would protect businesses which discriminate against LGBT people on the basis of “religious freedom.”

In a radio interview, the Texas Republican asserted to conservative host Janet Mefferd that President Barack Obama would have never been elected president in 2008 if he had said “marriage was between two men and two women.”

Gohmert explained that Arizona’s SB 1062 was necessary because the current mindset was, “if you’re not willing to embrace the liberal beliefs that we have then your religious beliefs are not protected.””* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from David Edwards / Raw Story:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/26/louie-gohmert-rallies-blacks-you-won-your-freedom-so-you-can-discriminate-against-gays/