There she goes again, spouting off her anti-gay bigotry and using religion as a cover. This week in The Oklahoma Gazette, Sally Kern wrote a counterpoint to marriage equality. If this were a bingo game using all the same old arguments for squares, you’d win after just the first two paragraphs. It’s hard to find the most ridiculous line out of the whole thing, but my picks would be:

It doesn’t take a genius to know that a man’s and a woman’s body parts naturally fit together. The anatomy of opposite sexes was made to complement each other. Two men or two women can’t physically complement one another.

and

Jesus’ silence on homosexuality is not an endorsement of it. He also said nothing about rape, incest, drugs or pedophilia. Surely, these aren’t acceptable?

If you’re feeling very masochistic, go ahead and read the whole thing. It would take up too much room to tear her arguments apart sentence by sentence, but I could sum up her OpEd for you in “Blah blah God blah blah homosexual sin blah blah man and woman blah blah”. She even used the Norway example that said teen pregnancies went up after gay marriage was legalized. Except that it’s not related to the “decline of morality” but more to the fact that comprehensive sex ed was not being taught as much anymore. Guess what? They were pushing abstinence only education instead. (My Google-fu is weak right now, but when I find the source I will update this post.)

It’s not surprising at all she wrote this. This is just the most recent time we’ve heard anti-gay bigotry from her. The thing that frustrates and depresses me the most is that voters who live in her district know her belief and yet vote for her anyway. She was reelected last November.

Oklahoma. Where no county voted for Obama, we proudly elect bigots and anti-science politicians (Inhofe I’m looking at you here as well), and even our Democrats are right of center.

UPDATED!

I see that News 9 has a PDF of her “OKLAHOMA CITIZEN’S PROCLAMATION FOR MORALITY“. I’ll spare you the whole thing, since it’s basically a rehash of her article, just with a bunch of WHERAS thrown in. Some WTF moments come when they are disappointed that Obama didn’t recognize the National Day of Prayer (uh, he did), and believing the economic woes are consequences of “our greater national moral crisis”. But what irks me is that she’s using quotes from “founding fathers” to make it sound like they were religious like her and they’d be totally ok with what she’s saying. Hey, Sally! I can throw around founding father quotes, too!

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine. -Thomas Jefferson

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature. -Thomas Jefferson

Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause. - George Washington

The government of the United States is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion. -George Washington

See? Just because a founding father said something, doesn’t mean you can claim superiority and deny equality and rights to a minority. Because, well, it seems that on that aspect the founding fathers wouldn’t agree with you. It’s kind of an important reason behind the US after all.

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