Sally Kern
Many of you have probably already seen the video where you can hear an Oklahoma state legislator from Oklahoma City, Sally Kern, express her belief that homosexuality is a bigger threat than terrorism and Islam.
I normally don’t have anything against people speaking their mind and expressing their opinion, even if it’s controversal. But, it has to be backed by facts! And especially when you’re a high elected official, you seriously can’t go around spreading bullshit which is not based on anything other than your sicko fears, originating from your father’s beating when you were little.
I mean, statements like “societies that embrace homosexuality has not lasted more than a few decades” and “homosexuality is a bigger threat to this country than terrorism and Islam”… I would love to see the background material and numbers that she bases these statements on. So I sent her an e-mail asking for it. Doubt I’ll ever hear anything back. People like these have a tendency of thinking that “God’s word” need no proof or ties to reality.
In connection with this case I also read a comment on dagbladet.no, which I found rather amusing. Got quite a lot of truth to it too, even if it’s put on edge: (translated to English from Norwegian)
I have a friend named Bob. The special thing about Bob is that he is an invisible friend, who only I can speak to. I want to take a day off from work now and then to see Bob. Bob tells me what I should think of other people, and who to like and dislike. They call me crazy. Had I only called him “God”, it would have been ok.
My two cents, and poke at, religion and ignorant people in high places.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Speaking of unsupported rumours: how do you know she was beaten as a child?
Apart from that I agree with the rest of what you are saying
Funny how the people arguing that “love thy neighbour” is a rule to live by, are the ones spreading more hate than most others.
March 11th, 2008 at 1:15 pm
I am not saying she was beaten as a child. “your sicko fears, originating from your father’s beating when you were little.”, is simply to illustrate.
March 11th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
People claim things like this with scary frequency in the U.S. I really don’t know why people are so up in arms and paranoid about the “homosexual threat”. Even if you think it’s a choice (which it’s not), we don’t have any laws preventing people who have sex with 5 people at a time from getting married or say that they’re destroying society. It’s all just bigoted bullshit, and I make of note of it for election day.