This is an update to my earlier post on Sally Kern’s hate speech against homosexuals
ThomasMore.org: TMLC Announces Representation of Oklahoma Legislator Targeted by Radical Homosexuals (thanks to Wikipedia for the link)
ANN ARBOR, MI — Representative Sally Kern has received over 27,000 vulgar, hate filled e-mails, her life has been threatened, her son falsely accused of being a homosexual, her financial supporters contacted and asked to no longer support her, and a leading homosexual activist entered her husband’s church last Sunday and took notes on her husband’s sermon. At times, as a precaution, a state trooper walks by her side when she enters the State Capitol.
. . . Said Thompson, “Representative Kern will not back down, regardless of the attempted hate-mongering intimidation by these national homosexual advocacy groups. Their actions are right out of a play-book developed by radical homosexual activists in the 1980s to manipulate and intimidate the majority of Americans into accepting the normalcy of the homosexual life style.”
Continued Thompson, “Radical homosexual groups are attempting to curtail Representative Kern’s constitutional rights to free speech, and use that speech as a platform to push for anti-Christian “hate crime” laws. In effect, their goal is to criminalize Christians and Christian beliefs.”
Thompson observed, “Her comments represent the view of a majority of Americans. All you need to do is look at all of the states that have overwhelmingly adopted constitutional amendments or statutes defending traditional marriages from the homosexual agenda. Christians believe that homosexual acts are acts of grave depravity, contrary to the natural law and under no circumstances can they be approved. However, Christians also believe one must love the sinner, but hate the sin.” . . .
I have several points in response…
1. When did it become “radical” to believe that all Americans deserve to be treated equally and with dignity under the law?
2. Not all Christians believe that “homosexual acts are acts of grave depravity, contrary to the natural law.”
3. I imagine that the vast majority of those 27,000 emails were sent by heterosexuals.
4. I would like to know how many of the 27,000 emails to Rep. Kern were actually “vulgar and hate-filled.” I know I left her a voice message and an email, and my messages were neither vulgar or hate-filled. They were pointed and angry, however.
Amen. I sent her an email that was neither rude nor nasty. I merely asked that she reveal the sources behind her comments.
Sally Kern CANT reveal any sources, because she was depending on her listeners to be as ignorant of the facts and reactionary as she is. In churches such as Olivet Baptist Church in OKC where her husband is pastor, they call that “evangelistically speaking”. It has nothing at all to do with truth, but it sells copy. I WAS a fundamentalist, or shall I say I attended fundamentalist churches for over 50 years, and any time I challenged lying statements, I was considered a trouble maker, because it’s far easier for THEM to embrace lies such as Sally was speaking in her little speech, than it is to risk being honest.
The full audio of Sally’s speech has been released and refutes all claims that it was edited to make her look bad. She did that all by herself.
Find the mp3 here and transcript here.
One more comment here, if I may. There is a HUGE difference between Christians and Fundamentalists. Most mainline Christians that I know would NEVER in a million years identify themselves with Fundamentalists such as Mrs. Kern, or the kind of faith that she represents. A good example is Sojourner’s Magazine which is a very fine Christian publication that would certainly not support what she has said, nor the lies that she and her supporters continue to speak in support of her bigotry.
Peacearena .. Thank you very much for this link. You are absolutely right .. She is the one who made HERSELF look bad.
Oh man I’m chatty for being an INFP!! Sally’s presentation is LOADED with lies and foolishly unfounded comments. She, at length, goes on about how our founding fathers were believers in Christ .. Christians. That is a total lie in itself. Most, if anything, were deists. I can’t think of any of them who were actually Christians, however on a PBS talk discussion the other day it seems that maybe one of them claimed to be a Christian.
Sally Kern has released at least some of the emails she received — at her government address — to a rightwing, anti-gay POLITICAL organization.
I have no problem with law enforcement combing through the emails after she claimed they included death threats.
But aren’t such communications — regardless of their nature — considered government property? Is it legal to release them to a third party to use for political purposes? Or even to do so oneself?
Based on some comments left on this blog (and left unpublished) I don’t doubt Ms. Kern got some ugly mail. She said some ugly stuff and people can take it personally. And there unhinged individuals on all sides of the political fence.
But isn’t there some rule regarding government communications that legislators should follow?
Or is this why Ms. Kern has “lawyered up?”
Honestly, it seems to me she’s doing it to get a rise out of everybody- the LGBT community and her crazy fundamentalist supporters both. I certainly don’t agree with what she said and I think she more than deserved a few choice words. I really feel like she should step down from her position.