HOUSTON — Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) stunned attendees at a high school solar eclipse event Monday by claiming the rock-solid moon is a “planet” that is “made up mostly of gases” — before adding she still wants to be “first in line” to learn how to live there.
The former top Democrat on the House Science Committee’s space subcommittee badly botched elementary lunar facts while speaking during the gathering at Booker T. Washington High School in Houston. I wonder how long it will take the students to unlearn the incorrect misinformation they were given.
“You’ve heard the word ‘full moon.’ Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just to come out and see a full moon is that complete rounded circle, which is made up mostly of gases,” Jackson Lee, 74, told teenage pupils who gathered on a sports field ahead of the rare celestial event.
“The sun is a mighty powerful heat, but it’s almost impossible to go near the sun. The moon is more manageable.”
Jackson Lee made a series of other questionable statements, including saying the moon, which reflects the sun’s light, gives off “unique light and energy” and misstating the scientific reason for the eclipse.
“I don’t think we’ve been on the moon the last 50 years. So we will be landing on the moon. What you’ll see today will be the closest distance that the moon has ever been in the last 20 years. Which means that’s why they will shut the light down because they will be close to the Earth,” she said of the eclipse alignment.
Speaking of hot air,
“I don’t know about you, I want to be first in line to know how to live and to be able to survive on the moon,” Jackson Lee added. “That’s another planet which we’re going to see shortly.”
Observations
Jackson Lee is notorious in DC for high staff turnover because of her unusual and abusive demands of staffers. She was voted multiple times as the ‘meanest member of congress.’ When she is called to account for her meanness or blatant errors, she plays the race card.
In spite of knowing these things, the SDA ‘regime’ church invited Jackson-Lee to address the congregation at the 2015 GC Session in San Antonio. SDA PARL has shamelessly invited her many times to keynote religious liberty meeting (Philippians 3:19).
Mrs. Jackson is a vigorous supporter of abortion, gay rights and gay marriage.
It is interesting that she is considering living on the moon. We wish her well in that venture—possibly she could set up the first abortion mill on the moon or officiate in the first gay marriage there. And PARL could hold an intergalactic meeting about the threat that christian nationalism poses to the universe.
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“Their destiny is destruction, their god is their stomach, and their glory is in their shame. Their mind is set on earthly things” (Philippians 3:19).