A noted Okie [del]state legislator[/del] bitch is at it again. I’d like to say something positive about Oklahoma politics and beliefs but it’s just not possible. The state GOP mimics the worst of the national policy: Homophobia, Islamophobia, racist culture(unless regarding OU/OSU football players), official anti-science postures, anti-immigrant stances, on and on.
I may be missing some context, but the quoted portion makes it seem like she’s saying HIV/AIDS is more dangerous than terrorism.
Still a pretty stupid point, inasmuch as HIV is a mindless virus and terrorism a result of a wilfull set of acts by humans, but not quite the same as saying gay love is more dangerous than terrorism. If she said that safe sex among gays is not as dangerous as terrorism, she’d be on accurate factual ground with that claim.
Maybe you missed this quote from three paragraphs later:
“Every day our young people,” said Kern. “They’re bombarded with ‘homosexuality is normal and natural.’ It’s something they have to deal with every day. Fortunately we don’t have to deal with a terrorist attack every day… It’s more dangerous, and yes I think that it’s also more dangerous because it will tear down the moral fiber of this nation.”
Yeah, she sounds like a real humanitarian.
She’s right. We should outlaw homosexuality. Other enlightened countries, like Saudi Arabia and Iran, are way ahead of us in this area!
The second half of that quote (from a link in the article) and the second quote in the article is more explicitly about homosexuality.
(If her point was that we overemphisize the danger of terrorism compared to other things, then I’d actually agree with her, but obviously I don’t think homosexuality destroying our “virture” is one of those things.)
The earlier quote that the article mentions is also pretty explicitly about homosexuality as an assault on our “virtue” rather then as a threat due to HIV:
She’s an idjit bigot of the first degree. How does she keep getting re-elected? Well, she’s in a very rural area of the center of the buckle on the Bible Belt.
Hiya, smithsb! Another Okie, I presume.
What are you talking about? Iran doesn’t have any gay people, remember?
Yes, I did.
I agree that this more closely ties terrorism and general gayness together. My fault for not reading the whole thing. :smack:
Reminds me of the episode of the Daily Show, the clip was called “Tangled up in Bleu”, and it was about an Arabic cryptolinguist who was discharged under don’t ask don’t tell. They had some doctor on who was saying that the country was SAFER without Bleu in the service anymore, to which the correspondant replied, **“I know I’d rather die in a terrorist attack than suffer through an uncomfortable shower with a gay.” **I still burst out laughing, but it’s good to know that there really are people who feel two people of the same sex sharing love and life together is a greater evil than another human being robbing the life of others.
I think we should nominate General Gayness to lead the fight on terrorism, maybe with some help from Major Butch-Dyke.
The uniforms would be fabulous.
We’ve just had a national day of remembrance for the 9/11 terrorist attack. When will we finally have a special day to remember the time two men touched each other? Lest we forget: Sometimes men like to get naked and do things …
I see where you’re coming from here… We hate terrorists. Terrorists hate gays. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. Not a bad plan of action!
But remember, if we give General Gayness and Major Butch-Dyke too much power and lattitude, soon they will be taking over eastern Europe and setting up a “Rainbow Curtain” and it’ll be 60 years before we break their *fabulous *government and *divine *economic policy.
Lots of ways to get aids. Does she think these kids should die.
Sharing needles, sex and transfusions. being born to a mother with aids is another good way.
What about gay terrorist?!?! Holy shit! I’ll never sleep again.
Promoting homosexuality and suppressing Christianity are the surest ways to destroy a culture. Just look at ancient Rome. They managed to survive as a Christian, anti-homosexual culture for over a thousand years, but once they finally repressed the Christians around 300 ad, within a hundred years the Western Empire was almost demolished.
Wake up one morning to a remodeled house and a new wardrobe. The horror.
It has managed to thrive without any.
This is probably either the craziest part of her rants or the most blatanly dishonest. What the fuck would be those studies? What mysterious civilization that we obviously have never heard of has embraced homosexuality, and then flamboyantly disappeared?
Was looking for a new username, thanks.
They call it Cirque du Soleil.
Ummm, your dates are funny.
They managed to surivive as Christians for over 1,000 years and then collapsed 400 years after the death of Christ?
Wow.
Lead by Dick Armey.