March 13th, 2008
Oklahoma state rep. Sally Kern’s homophobic rant earned her several thousand emails and phone calls, most of which I’m sure aren’t very civil. Tuesday, Kern alluded to some of them containing death threats, prompting an investigation by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations. What did they find?
[OSBI spokeswoman Jessica] Brown said Tuesday, “There are a lot of e-mails to the representative that say, ‘You ought to die,’ rather than, ‘I am going to kill you.’
“I wouldn’t characterize them as death threats,” she said.
A LaBarbera Award winner exaggerating? Who’da thunk?
Update: Never mind what law enforcement officials say. Our friends from Focus on the Family’s CitizenLink are undeterred. It’s like they just can’t help it.
See also:
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Sally Kern’s Economic Fallout
Sally Kern’s Meeting with PFLAG on Tape
Exodus’ Local Ministry Aligns with Sally Kern
Certified Cameronite: Sally Kern
Kern Speaks to College Republicans
Sally Kern: Out of Context? The Complete Transcript
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Heather Haney
March 13th, 2008
Please sign the petition to get Sally Kern out of Office. Forward to all your friends, post on your blogs!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/request-to-terminate-sally-kerns-position-house-of-representatives
a. mcewen
March 13th, 2008
Here is the part of the Focus on the Family piece that gets me:
“Besides, if I had a cup of water for every time some journalist, pundit or elected official compared evangelical conservatives to the Taliban, I could fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool.”
Well when you say that gays are trying to harm two-year-olds and don’t provide any proof of your charges, are we supposed to congratulate you? Give you an award?
I suppose that’s the game plan they are going to take. Never mind about her comments, just the lie that she received death threats.
We can probably expect a piece in One News Now any day now.
Emproph
March 14th, 2008
Sally Kern on “militant homosexual activists”:
Gary Schneeberger, vice president for media relations at Focus on the Family Action, on the approval of Kern’s statement’s:
They’re worse than homosexual activists I tell ya. Worse!
Willie Hewes
March 14th, 2008
‘What is truly outrageous is that a Christian elected official can be vilified over simply speaking about the Bible’s view of homosexuality.’
OK, seriously, where in the Bible says it that homosexuals are worse than terrorists, that they are after our children, or that societies that embrace homosexuality are to be wiped out in, you know, a couple decades?
Chapter and verse, please.
Rob
March 18th, 2008
I find it amazing that within Sally’s speech she blasted the so-called “Gay Agendaâ€, but as yet, no one has called her to task on HER radical agenda. To help clarify things, I give you Sally Kern’s Agenda (satire)
7:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. – Hate gays
10:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. – break (read another chapter of Mein Kampf)
10:45 a. m. – 12:30 p.m. – Hate Muslims
12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. – Visit Mr Serge’s House of Hair. (thank God he knows his place, and isn’t one of those “uppity dandy’sâ€)
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. – Generalized hate
2:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. – Break (browse through “Gay Conspiracy Theory Monthlyâ€)
2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. Introduce bill to rename Oklahoma “Jesuslandâ€
3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. – Find some children. Poison minds.
3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. – Hate anyone who isn’t exactly like ME
4:30 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. – Book “Sally Kerns’ Hate-o-Rama†speaking tour.
5:00 p.m. – 5:15 p.m. – Send love note to Rev. Fred Phelps (he’s just dreamy)
5:15 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. – Hate Muslims and Gays evening gathering.
11:00 p.m. -11:15 p.m. – Thank MY Jesus (not that pansy “Love everybody†Jesus, but the “hate everybody who isn’t like ME†Jesus) for another productive and fulfilling day.
Stefano
March 19th, 2008
This story of Sally Kern simply becomes more bizarre by the day.
From Tulsa World
[Emphasis mine]
Now the Thomas More Law Center has issued a news release asserting that Kern was secretly taped. First, Kern is an elected official. Second, Kern herself has said this was a public event. The spin of the Thomas More Law Center to paint Kern as a beseiged Christian being persecuted and other distorted lunacies trul is breathtaking. (But in reality, nothing new from them we haven’t all heard before.)
http://www.thomasmore.org/qry/page.taf?id=63
Stefano
March 19th, 2008
And why the h*** does she need legal representation for in order to meet with “two or three people representing the gay and lesbian community”????
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