I Can't Tell Who Should Be More Offended

I'm sure some of you have heard the fantastic musings of Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern, when asked to share her thoughts on homosexuality to a small group of supporters. Some choice quotes:

One of my colleagues said, ‘We don’t have a gay problem in my community, and that’s why I voted against this bill.’ To me, that is so dumb. If you’ve got cancer in your little toe, do you say, ‘Well, you know, I’m going to forget about it because the rest of me is fine?’ It spreads, and this stuff is deadly. It’s spreading, and it will destroy our young people.

Studies show that no society that has embraced homosexuality has lasted more than a few decades. It’s the death knell of this country.

They want to get our young children into government schools so they can indoctrinate them. They are going after our young children, as young as two years of age, to try to teach them that the homosexual lifestyle is acceptable.

But, probably the most shockingly bigoted has got to be the following.

I honestly think it’s the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam.

Wow. Forget for a second that she thinks gays are worse than 9/11, I am stunned by the blatant bigotry against Islam. The whole religion. Not militant extremists who use religion as an excuse to fight for power and control (hello, Crusades anyone?), and forsake Islamic values of peace, just Islam. All of it. Usually even the most hateful politicians are careful to at least publicly distinguish between a religion and those who use that religion as an excuse to kill. But apparently Rep. Kern has no such qualms. The Islamic faith is just bad and dangerous.

Rep. Kern is also currently backing bills in the Oklahoma legislature that would prevent foreign companies from owning or leasing state turnpikes (yay xenophobia!), and that would protect students' freedom of religious expression in schools. Regarding the latter, some go so far as to say that she wants to protect kids who speak out in school against homosexuality, but I really don't give her enough credit for that much forethought. In fact, I think she has put so little forethought into it that if it passes, I would like to see the look on her face when someone uses it to defend an expression of Islamic faith. Tee hee.

Rep. Kern did not know she was being recorded, but she says she would have said the same thing regardless. And just to show that there is enough stupid hate for both sides, she is of course now getting a lot of emails, some of which are at least vaguely threatening. Thanks guys, way to lower yourself to the occasion. No thanks, really, we can do just fine without that.

It is sad and scary that this level of hatred is still considered acceptable in a leader at any level. I'm having a tough time even forming sentences about this...the hypocrisy of people's accusations of others compared to their own actions right here at home...the arrogance and ignorance of such blind hatred. It's just sad and scary. Every time a leader stands behind such hateful ideas, it gives validation to those who would do more than speak.

Oh, but let's end on a lighter note. Do you want the fun twist at the end? Of course you do! It would seem that Rep. Kern has a big gay homo fairy son!