# OK State Rep. Sally Kern: Homosexuality is "the biggest threat" to the U.S. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 11, 2008, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037 "2008-03-11T23:42:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037/61 "2008-03-12T18:16:11Z")
[QUOTE=matt\_mcl] I’m gay, and unfortunately, I don’t need special measures of any kind in order not to have gay sex these days. ☹ [/QUOTE] You may want to check your back pocket. Sometimes I like to think that all of this sound and fury that we’ve been hearing lately is nothing more than the death rattle of homophobia. Then again, sometimes I like to think that I’m Batman. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037/62 "2008-03-12T18:17:48Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally Posted by **jayjay** _ > They believe it! To them, homosexuality is a communicable habit/addiction, just like alcoholism or drug addiction. And curable in the same ways, apparently. It is common knowledge that homosexuality is a sexually transmitted disease. If you don’t want to catch it, just don’t have sex with people of your own gender. Or some such. ---
**Author:** ![you\_with\_the\_face](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ecccb3/32.png) [@you\_with\_the\_face](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/you_with_the_face)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037/63 "2008-03-12T18:18:26Z")
How long will it be before she’s found in an airport restroom, playing footsie with someone? ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037/64 "2008-03-12T18:22:08Z")
It really is a lot of pressure being the biggest threat to the US and western civilization. Can’t they pick someone else for a while? All of this downfall bringing, culture destroying and marriage ruining gets exhausting. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037/65 "2008-03-12T18:30:59Z")
Hippies did our bit, now its your turn! ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037/66 "2008-03-12T18:32:37Z")
[QUOTE=Lightray] Wait, how has there not been a whacky comedy about a color-blind gay guy misreading hanky codes at the gay bar? [/QUOTE] There was that scene from _Cruising_ with Al Pacino and the yellow hankie, but it wasn’t anywhere _near_ as hysterical as the scene with the giant black man in the jock strap. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037/67 "2008-03-12T18:33:35Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] Hippies did our bit, now its your turn! [/QUOTE] Wait a sec, didn’t we have this ‘argument’ recently? ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037/68 "2008-03-12T18:36:13Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] It really is a lot of pressure being the biggest threat to the US and western civilization. Can’t they pick someone else for a while? All of this downfall bringing, culture destroying and marriage ruining gets exhausting. [/QUOTE] Not to mention the 9/11 attack-bringing-down-on-our-heads and the Hurricane-Katrina-making. You guys are doing a lot of heavy lifting for a buncha poofs. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037/69 "2008-03-12T18:39:27Z")
Dunno. Did you lose? ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037/70 "2008-03-12T19:46:58Z")
[QUOTE=elucidator] Dunno. Did you lose? [/QUOTE] Of course not. Old man. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037/71 "2008-03-12T19:52:34Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] It really is a lot of pressure being the biggest threat to the US and western civilization. Can’t they pick someone else for a while? All of this downfall bringing, culture destroying and marriage ruining gets exhausting. [/QUOTE] Well, if my track record for playing “Civilization” is anything to go by, I could take over for a while. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037/72 "2008-03-12T19:55:41Z")
[QUOTE=Trion] Well, if my track record for playing “Civilization” is anything to go by, I could take over for a while. [/QUOTE] Fabulous. I nominate **Trion** for greatest threat. Now I’m off to the gym, then a cocktail and after that shopping! ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037/73 "2008-03-12T19:56:58Z")
[QUOTE=Antinor01] Of course not. Old man. 😉 [/QUOTE] Clean livin’, son, clean livin’. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037/74 "2008-03-12T20:03:33Z")
Once again, bisexuals cruelly overlooked. We have plans too, you know! Look! Blueprints and everything! Don’t we deserve to be called on it? Ah, never mind. _shuffles off_ ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037/75 "2008-03-12T20:06:50Z")
[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold] Once again, bisexuals cruelly overlooked. We have plans too, you know! Look! Blueprints and everything! Don’t we deserve to be called on it? Ah, never mind. _shuffles off_ [/QUOTE] Shhh! You’ll give us away! We’re never going to get our infiltration of both sides done with you calling attention to us like this. ---
**Author:** ![Dangerosa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Dangerosa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dangerosa)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037/76 "2008-03-12T20:29:39Z")
[QUOTE=tdn] Then again, sometimes I like to think that I’m Batman. [/QUOTE] What’s the hanky color for that? ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037/77 "2008-03-12T20:30:39Z")
[QUOTE=Dangerosa] What’s the hanky color for that? [/QUOTE] Black, with two corners pulled up into ears… ---
**Author:** ![Punoqllads](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/d2c977/32.png) [@Punoqllads](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Punoqllads)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037/78 "2008-03-12T20:32:07Z")
[QUOTE=flight] This is something I have noticed in some anti-gay conservatives. They act like gayness is a dangerous thing you must always be on guard for lest it take you. That you have to push those urges down an control them. [/QUOTE] Well, heck, there’s an easy way to reduce those urges in the gay population. Enact gay marriage. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037/79 "2008-03-12T20:45:19Z")
Yeah! That’ll teach 'em! ---
**Author:** ![Li\_l\_Pluck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ee59a6/32.png) [@Li\_l\_Pluck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Li_l_Pluck)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2008, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037/80 "2008-03-12T21:38:15Z")
[QUOTE=matt\_mcl] I’m gay, and unfortunately, I don’t need special measures of any kind in order not to have gay sex these days. ☹ [/QUOTE] Shit, you ain’t lyin’! ☹ Note to self: Your name is \*not \* Adonis. For a reason. Therefore, don’t send nude self-pics to prospective lays, even though they seem really interested ('cause they’ve seen you with your clothes ON and think they really know what’s going on underneath) and they ask for them. Oh, and because you’re a little exhibitionist freak. Perhaps it’s better just to be coy and hold \*some \* cards close to your chest. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-state-rep-sally-kern-homosexuality-is-the-biggest-threat-to-the-u-s/441037.md?page=5)