PhoenixAsh
11th September 2011, 21:55
Oklahoma state Rep. Sally Kern (R) first became infamous (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/04/28/161912/sally-kern-blacks-dont-work-hard/) on the national stage when she said that blacks dont work as hard as white people. The Oklahoma House finally reprimanded (http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/05/03/163109/oklahoma-house-reprimands-sally-ker/) her for those statements, but Kern has yet to answer for a number of derogatory remarks (http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/07/28/282021/sally-kern-resisting-ex-gay-therapy-is-hateful/) shes made about gay men and women.
Now, ahead of the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, Kern is doubling down on her claim that homosexuality poses a greater threat (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/kern-doubles-down-claim-homosexuality-more-dangerous-terrorist-attacks) to America than terrorist attacks. In 2008, Kern said homosexuality is the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam (http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/11/headlines#6), and called it a cancer that is spreading across America and will destroy our young people.
Now Right Wing Watch reports (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/kern-doubles-down-claim-homosexuality-more-dangerous-terrorist-attacks) that a few days ago, she spoke with Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality to promote her new book, The Stoning of Sally Kern. She repeated her claim that homosexuality is more dangerous than terrorist attacks because unlike terrorism, we have to deal with it every day:
KERN: Which has destroyed and ended the life of more people? Terrorism attack here in America or HIV/AIDS? In the last twenty years, fifteen to twenty years, weve had maybe three terrorist attacks on our soil with a little over 5,000 people regrettably losing their lives. In the same time frame, there have been hundreds of thousands who have died because of having AIDS. So which ones the biggest threat? And you know, every day our young peopletheyre bombarded with homosexuality is normal and natural. Its something they have to deal with every day. Fortunately we dont have to deal with a terrorist attack every day, and thats what I mean. Its more dangerous, and yes I think that its also more dangerous because it will tear down the moral fiber of this nation.
Kern went on to say that homosexuality is eroding the principles of religion and morality our nation was founded on and without virtue this nation will not survive. Perhaps not coincidentally, her words echo the rhetoric of conservatives who blamed the September 11th attacks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-CAcdta_8I&feature=player_embedded) themselves on homosexuality in America. Its difficult to comprehend the sheer heartlessness of Kerns implication that the gay men and women who were murdered on September 11th were actually a greater threat to their country than the terrorists who killed them. Also insulting and ignorant (http://www.aidshealth.org/about-hiv-aids/hiv-aids/hivaids-myths.html) is her claim that homosexuality is solely or mostly to blame for AIDS deaths. Blaming t
But I find this particularly appaling all the time.
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/09/09/315628/gop-legislator-homosexuality-is-more-dangerous-than-terrorist-attacks-because-we-have-to-deal-with-it-every-day/
Now, ahead of the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, Kern is doubling down on her claim that homosexuality poses a greater threat (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/kern-doubles-down-claim-homosexuality-more-dangerous-terrorist-attacks) to America than terrorist attacks. In 2008, Kern said homosexuality is the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam (http://www.democracynow.org/2008/3/11/headlines#6), and called it a cancer that is spreading across America and will destroy our young people.
Now Right Wing Watch reports (http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/kern-doubles-down-claim-homosexuality-more-dangerous-terrorist-attacks) that a few days ago, she spoke with Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality to promote her new book, The Stoning of Sally Kern. She repeated her claim that homosexuality is more dangerous than terrorist attacks because unlike terrorism, we have to deal with it every day:
KERN: Which has destroyed and ended the life of more people? Terrorism attack here in America or HIV/AIDS? In the last twenty years, fifteen to twenty years, weve had maybe three terrorist attacks on our soil with a little over 5,000 people regrettably losing their lives. In the same time frame, there have been hundreds of thousands who have died because of having AIDS. So which ones the biggest threat? And you know, every day our young peopletheyre bombarded with homosexuality is normal and natural. Its something they have to deal with every day. Fortunately we dont have to deal with a terrorist attack every day, and thats what I mean. Its more dangerous, and yes I think that its also more dangerous because it will tear down the moral fiber of this nation.
Kern went on to say that homosexuality is eroding the principles of religion and morality our nation was founded on and without virtue this nation will not survive. Perhaps not coincidentally, her words echo the rhetoric of conservatives who blamed the September 11th attacks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-CAcdta_8I&feature=player_embedded) themselves on homosexuality in America. Its difficult to comprehend the sheer heartlessness of Kerns implication that the gay men and women who were murdered on September 11th were actually a greater threat to their country than the terrorists who killed them. Also insulting and ignorant (http://www.aidshealth.org/about-hiv-aids/hiv-aids/hivaids-myths.html) is her claim that homosexuality is solely or mostly to blame for AIDS deaths. Blaming t
But I find this particularly appaling all the time.
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2011/09/09/315628/gop-legislator-homosexuality-is-more-dangerous-than-terrorist-attacks-because-we-have-to-deal-with-it-every-day/