I'd love a gay invasion. :D  Oklahomo the musical heee

Her speech was of course hateful towards homosexuals, Islam, and innocent day care workers. :P

But the bit that I can't get over is that she made that ridiculous comparison to... not even a comparison, she said homosexuality is a greater threat than TERRORISM.

She represents a district in OKC. She probably wasn't 15 minutes from where the Murrah building once stood when she said that. I'm hurt but not surprised by hate-speeches about homosexuality, but I was truly stunned that she diminished the significance of terrorism as she did and wrote it off as the same as Islam (OKC was bombed by a white Iowa Catholic military vet).

Was she living in a cave in 1995? Has she never been to the memorial and seen the 168 empty chairs representing the victims (which would be an even higher number were it to include emergency response personel who committed suicide in the aftermath)? Did she not spend 10 years hearing about the investigation and trials on the news every night? Has she no idea what the last 13 years have been like for victim's families?

How could her emotional response to all that be so low and her fear of homosexuals so great that she would find two women in love more threatening?

It makes me sad to think of how much anger and fear she must live with and I pray the God she claims to have faith in will one day bring love and remorse to her heart.

But I also sent the following message to the Clinton campaign:

Dear Senator Clinton,
   You have made several statements in support of the LGBT community during your campaign and I appreciate these shows of support.
   However, it often feels such remarks are directed towards a limited audience. It is time to make equality an issue for everyone.
   OK Representative Sally Kerns was recently recorded on a rant against homosexuality, labeling it a greater threat than terrorism. Her seech was also insulting to Islam.
   Such hatred in politics should not be overlooked by those at the highest levels, those with the loudest voice.
   As an American, a Democrat, an Oklahoman, a Christian and a member of the LGBT community I am asking you to publicly denounce Rep. Kern's hateful speech. Show the nation that such intolerance has no place in the political arena at any level.
   Kern points to gay suicide rates as a sign that homosexuality is unhealthy and wrong. The suicide rate of gay youths is a subject you've addressed before and one which could not be more pressing. I am asking you to take this opportunity to once more bring the issue to light.
   Stand up for the LGBT community and let Rep. Kern know that such a serious problem deserves serious debate and solutions, not humiliating rants.
    Now is the time to show your commitment to unity and equality. 
       Rachel L. Williams

I love the Dinah Shore theory :D

I'm so disappointed that the press is largely ignoring this. When it comes to gays and women, our issues are largely ignored.

That's for sure. In 2006 she wrote a bill to require that all books with any homosexual content be removed from public areas of public libraries. There is a rumor (that appears to have been confirmed) that one of her sons is gay. I feel for the man.

I'm actually speechless.  The fact that this woman is an elected government official and her peers aren't demanding her to resign or even apologize for her inflammatory remarks affirms my worst fears:

The people in my home state are truly asinine and shouldn't reproduce. 

Inane people only produce more idiocy.  Clearly, with educators and other elected public officials that acquiesce to Kern’s doctrines, morals and religious zealousness, Oklahoma will continue to perpetuate discrimination, legislate morality based upon Evangelical fanaticism, and most of all deny American citizens equal protection under the law.

In less than four years, our legislative branch by way of passing a bill to include the issue on a state wide ballot during a Presidental election amended our state constitution to deny same-sex marriage while never addressing the growing divorce rate, which is now well above 60%. They cited that same-sex marriage would dishonor the institution of marriage.  I think the failure of marriage through divorce is a graver dishonor to the institution of marriage.   

This past year or so, Oklahoma has made it illegal to employ immigrants without proper documentation, and it is now legal for law enforcement to detain persons suspected of being illegally in this country without just cause (they don’t have to commit a crime to be detained)all in the name of national security and the fear that growing immigrant population makes us more vulnerable to terrorist attacks.  I guess our legislatures have a short memory.  The second worst terrorist attack to happen in the US was in 1995 within a mere distance from the State Capitol where Sally Kern currently occupies an office.  A white, Christian male used easily attainable items to construct a bomb and kill 168 of his fellow Americans.  He surely was not a Middle Eastern terrorist,nor even an illegal immigrant.    

If Sally Kern is so concerned about our youth, why has nothing been done to combat one of the highest rates of teenage pregnancy in the nation, or why has our elected officials barely attempted to deal with the growing crisis of lower test scores and slipping graduation rates.  Our ‘educators’ barely make enough money to stay above the poverty line; yet, Sally Kern is more concerned that teaching tolerance is the gateway to brainwashing the young populous into joining the supposed growing ranks of  gay terrorist groups that aspire to grandiose ideas of megalomania and making heterosexuals obsolete.        

I am reminded every single day about the irony of equality.  If we are all suppose to be equal, why must we enact laws for the clarification of the included?  How can it be legal to deny certain citizens the same rights and privileges when the Constitution clearly states that citizens have equal protection under the law?  Sally Kern is an American citizen with a constitution that protects her right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  She has the right to free speech; however, she fails to realize that addressing an audience with misleading information and the influence of ideas that incite harmful actions towards others is not an extension of her right to free speech.

Let's not let her win by allowing her to be turned into a victim.  Threatening her life is not the answer.  Her term is not up until several more long years.  The best way to deal with Kern is to expose her agenda and make sure her credibility never recovers. 

Sorry for the long post.  I guess I finally found my words.  

Sally Kern represents district 84 in the Oklahoma City metro area located in Oklahoma County.  

Thank the gods that my representatives are Democrats.  The Northeast area around Tulsa has a higher concentration of Democrats and more liberal elected officials. 

one of her sons is gay.

i just don't understand how a parent can hate someone or something so much that they would hate their children.

i just don't get it.

The subaru joke killed me...LOL

Hey, i agree she should resign too!
And her comments about islam really pissed me off, (how can someone say one religion is better than another and not get in trouble) and i know soo many ppl who think like her too (which i guess is kinda sad), hey... i say the muslims and the gays should team up and together infiltrate Oklahoma HAHAHAHA Yeah! 

"Think Sideways"

Ha, that's nothing new. Racist and Homophobes exist in the legislation. Senator Kern is just wearing her homophobic lifestyle on her sleeves. People will be open about their homophobia.So expect it. Kern needs to be booted out of office though for real. She is a threat to our American society.

She claims we are the threat to society when personally, I believe that women and people like that in office and high power positions like hers, are the real threat to American society. It's just really sad. My favorite reaction was Ellen Degeneres' reaction to the whole bit. I just find it odd that the news is purposely avoiding it. Really sad. 

"Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."

It [is] now perceived that such phrases as 'self-government' and 'the power of the people over themselves' do not express the true state of the case.  The 'people' who over whom it is exercised; and the 'self-government' spoken of is not the government of each by himself, but of each by all the rest.

The will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people -the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; the people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number, and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power.

Society can and does execute its own mandates; and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with which it ought not to meddle, it practises a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life and enslaving the sould itself.

Protection, therefore, against tyranny of the [government] is not enough; there needs to protection also against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them; to fetter the development and, if possible, prevent the formation of any individuality not in harmony with its ways, and compel all characters to fashion themselves upon the model of its own.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community against [their] will, is to prevent harm to others.  The only part of the conduct of anyone for which they are amenable to society is that which concerns others.  In the part which merely concerns [themselves], their independence  is of right, absolute.  Over [themselves], over their body and mind, the individual is sovereign.  

While John Stuart Mill wasn't talking about us in his essay: On Liberty, his essay illustrates the need for the people to understand the fundamentals of society itself. In our US Constitution, we have a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.  

The question now remains: as a society, are we capable of being improved by free and equal discussion?  The answer is no.  If all [humanity] minus one were of one opinion, [humanity] would be no more justified in silencing that one person than that person, if they had the power, would be justified in silencing [humanity].  

If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth; if wrong, they loose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth produced by its collision with error.

The only way to change wrong opinions and practices is to advocate facts and arguments to produce any effect upon the minds of others.

Our President and other leaders like Sally Kern are using despotism as a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians (the world and the citizens of the US).  This is an untennable situation.  Dissent is freedom. To refuse a hearing to an opinion because they are sure that it is false is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty.  All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.