(UPDATE: It looks like a candidate has stepped up to unseat the homophobe. Dem Ron Marlett, a social worker at Community Pathways Unlimited, said Kern’s outrageous comments spurred him to action.)
Hat tip to bookwrm1, who noted in the comments of another thread that No-Show Sally Kern did show up on TV on Easter Sunday on KFOR-TV to bleat about her bigotry.
She did not apologize or recant her words. She denied having said them several times, then in the same breath turned right around and said them again to the cleric’s face. She is a real piece of work. She also gives the impression of being dumb as a rock, because she can’t even remember what political committees she is on or who serves with her.And here’s her stellar appearance…
* Watch the YouTube video
* The transcript of the entire rant is here.
* Read her interview with Matt Barber and Peter LaBarbera
* Review the Sally Kern archive.
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Judy Shepard, the mother of Matthew Shepard, guestposted at GayPolitics.com about Kern’s comments. Read a snippet below the fold.
Sally Kern’s comments hit me like a punch to the gut. I was enormously saddened that someone—anyone, really, but especially an elected official—could say such mean things about other human beings. We have so much to deal with already—the incessant dreary news about war, about the economy, about shocking crimes. I’m amazed that someone like Sally Kern found the time to push a whole new theory about who we should fear.
But as despicable as Sally Kern’s ideas are, she is of course free to shout them from the rooftops. One of the oddest responses of people who agree with her has been that we are trying to restrict her freedom of speech. In reality, the Victory Fund gave her a megaphone. If she’s that proud of her speech, she must be thrilled that more than 1 million people have listened to it.
…I don’t know why Sally Kern is proud of comparing gay people to cancer or terrorism, but count me as someone who’s listening now to people like her. She may be free to say people like my son are a threat to America, but when she does she puts other mothers’ sons in danger. I pray she doesn’t say it anymore.
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Kern’s strategy is to interrupt the other guy and to controll the floor.
What is it about sunlight that diminshes the new brand of Republicans?
That’s a whole heapin’ helpin’ lotta crazy.
I will never, never understand how people like Sally Kerns can sit at a table with another living, breathing, feeling human being and tell him/her that s/he is destroying this country simply by existing. Seriously, fuck Sally Kerns. I don’t believe she would love a gay child if she had one because I don’t think she has the slightest clue how to love anyone.
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Living in Oklahoma, I’ve seen this sort of crap in action. I’ve seen people talk to gays like they’re ‘normal’ people and then when that person walks out of the room they can look you right in the eye and say that person is going to hell. And they seem to genuinely be unaware of the contradiction in their thinking.
My goodness there’s a lot of stupid sitting around the table in that clip. Kevin Ogle, the moderator, is actually the slightly less dim of the two Ogle brothers who grace central Oklahoma tv news. The less said about former Oklahoma City Mayor Kirk Humphreys, the better.
As for the clip, I just couldn’t make it past Kevin Ogle’s little testimonial starting things off.
I still can’t believe she is a teacher. No wonder their schools have issues.
Here’s the cherry on top:
. . . I honestly think it’s [the Gays] the biggest threat even, that our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam, which I think is a big threat . . .
She cops to being a massive religious bigot, and it’s not even her main point.
Well, Sally Kern is in the minority. Everyone outside of the South knows that she is a cold-hearted bigot.
That is why radical Christianity and radical Islam goes hand-in-hand.