Gay people, who are worse than terrorists, seize control of Pittsburgh

April 12, 2008

Guest Post by Morbo

Editor’s note: Two months ago, Morbo fell on a patch of ice, broke his left wrist, and hasn’t been able to type much since. Fortunately, he makes a triumphant return this morning. -CB

There is a school of thought among some scientists that if we ever encounter intelligent life on another planet, we may simply be unable to communicate with them. It’s not a matter of failing to share a language. It’s that they would be so different, having been through an entirely different evolution and environment, that the things they did made no sense to us, and vice versa.

I sometimes think we don’t have to go to another planet to experience that phenomenon. I see plenty of it here.

Consider the case of Sally Kern. Kern, as the Carpetbagger mentioned a few weeks ago, is a member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives under fire for a rather strident speech she gave about gay people.

I’ve read the entire speech. There’s a lot to say about it, but I’d like to let Kern speak for herself with a few choice excerpts:

* “But what we see happening today is the homosexual agenda is destroying this nation. Okay, it’s just a fact.”

* “You know gays are infiltrating city councils. Did you know, Eureka Springs, anybody been there to the Passion Play? Have you heard that the city council of Eureka Springs is now controlled by gays? Okay. There are some others – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Tacoma [sic], Maryland, Kensington, Maryland, in Vermont, Oregon, West Palm Beach, Florida, and a lot of other places in Florida. What’s happening? The homosexuals are getting involved politically on the most local level there is — city council, city government — and they are winning elections and the first thing they’re doing is passing, uh, laws, anti-discrimination laws and hate [crime] laws and things like that and, uh, you know….”

* “You know, the very fact that I’m talking to you like this, here today, puts me in jeopardy. Okay, and so, so be it. Okay, and I’m not ‘anti.’ I’m not gay bashing, but according to God’s Word that is not the right kind of lifestyle. It has deadly consequences for those people involved in it. They have more suicides and they’re more discouraged, there’s more illness, their lifespans are shorter. You know, it’s not a lifestyle that is good for this nation. Matter of fact, studies show that no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than, you know, a few decades. So it’s the death knell for this country. I honestly think it’s the biggest threat even, that our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam which I think is a big threat, okay. Because what’s happening now, they’re going after, in schools, two year olds. You know what they’re trying to get early childhood education? They want to get our young children into the government schools so they can indoctrinate them. I taught school for close to 20 years and we’re not teaching facts and knowledge anymore, folks, we’re teaching indoctrination. Okay?”

You can glean a lot from this, other than the fact that this is a woman who says “okay” a lot. I pulled these quotes from a transcript that appears on the website of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, an anti-gay group. The organization notes that when Kern said homosexuality is worse than Islam, she was “talking singularly about radical Islamic terrorism.”

I hate to break it to Americans for Truth About Homosexuality, but that actually makes what she said worse. According to Kern, gay people are more dangerous than terrorists who blithely murder innocent men, women and children by flying airplanes into buildings, planting bombs and engaging in other acts of death, destruction and mayhem. Gay people, she said, are more of a threat to this nation than cold-blooded killers. Putting up with gays, Kern opined, will actually destroy the country. (I’d like to know what she thinks we ought to do with them.)

Kern took a lot of criticism for her remarks. What was the response of the Religious Right? Did that movement’s leaders do the sane thing and keep this raving lunatic at arm’s length? Nope. They embraced her. Kern is their hero d’jour. In Oklahoma City, 1,500 people came out to rally on her behalf.

I urge you to read Kern’s entire speech. Then spend some time looking at the site of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality. (I recommend keeping a barf bag nearby.)

I believe in evolution. That means Kern and the crackpots who really believe gay people are worse than murdering terrorists are of the same species as you and me. Deep down inside I know that’s true, but there are days when it would be comforting to think they evolved on some other planet.

“Matter of fact, studies show that no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than, you know, a few decades.”

Ignoring the homosexuality in many of the ancient societies (Greece, I’m looking at you), I can’t help but add a stunning observation. Studies have also shown that no society with women’s suffrage has lasted over 150 years!

  • If you had pointed out that Kerns was actually elected by the people of Oklahoma, Hillary would accuse you of “looking down on Oklahomans.” Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

  • To add to Jesse’s comment, no democracy has ever survived more than 211 years (1789-2000).

  • The people of Oklahoma have also elected Jim Inhofe and Tom Coburn to the U.S. Senate. All that I can say in our defense is that we just happen to have a higher concentration of extraterrestrials here than there are in most other places. Forty percent of us are just like sixty percent of the rest of America.

    In apparent response to Kern, the Dems have invited Congressman Barney Frank to Oklahoma for a fundraiser:

    http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=20080408_1_A7_spanc38061

    It’s probably not the most astute political move that our state Democratic Party could have made. It will just get the ET’s even more riled up.

    On the Tulsa World website, there are three topics that get hundreds of reader comments compared to the usual dozen or so: the mess at Oral Roberts University, proposed legislation (now dead) that would allow college students to carry concealed weapons on the campuses of state universities, and Sally Kern. God, Guns, and Gays. That’s how we got Kern, Inhofe and Coburn, among others.

  • Rome was supposedly founded in 753 B.C. Last I looked it was still around (I hope to spend two weeks there beginning the end of this month). That’s a pretty long run for a city which, uh, you know, wasn’t supposed to be around for “you know, a few decades.”

    Score another one for Fundamentalism. Incidentally, according to Merriam-Webster’s “fundament” means “asshole”.

  • 1500 people came out to a rally on her behalf. This in a city that suffered the worst act of domestic terrorism in US history. What is destroying this nation is ignorant dumbf*cks like these, not gays. If pointing out the stupidity of these idiots is elitism, then I’m proud to be an elitist. They should do us all a favour and stay away from the ballot box in November. We can’t afford any more of this nonsense.

  • Huh, as a Pittsburgher, I’m delighted to learn of our takeover. Strangely, it has’t been announced in the paper here yet.

    I can only imagine that she’s ranting about the Pittsburgh Human Relations Act, which prohibits discrimination in employment, including discrimination in compensation, on the basis of sexual orientation. Happily, the most recent teacher’s contract finally added domestic partnership benefits, as well.

  • If this Rep…truly believes what she says; Then those Fags shouldn’t have to pay taxes…Since they obviously aren’t people (citizens etc…)

  • They have no Children, yet they must pay taxes to educate those that do! They contribute to the welfare of the community, maybe they are illegal Aliens…Who do these gays think they are…Americans?
    Sheesh…

  • What is destroying this nation is ignorant dumbf*cks like these, not gays.

    Yep. Time to start investing in Brawndo.

  • I too missed the gay takeover of Pittsburgh. Maybe that’s what she’s on about. Those gays are so sneaky that they can take over an entire city and no one is the wiser. When a group can impose their agenda on a city such as Pittsburgh, and everything remains exactly the same as it was, all is clearly lost.

    Oh, and welcome back Morbo!

  • Heh. The funny part is that according to her Pittsburgh was taken over as early as 1992, which is when Pittsburgh’s ENDA-style bill passed in the city. If that is a sign that Pittsburgh has been “taken over” by gays because the city stated that discrimination against gays and lesbians isn’t OK then her bar for what counts as “taken over” is pretty freaking low. Maybe she’s watched too many episodes of Queer as Folk and believes that Pittsburgh is some kind of gay mecca. (giggle)

    Also, clearly she’s never been to Takoma (Park), Maryland. Takoma Park is hardly some small, remote Maryland town; Takoma Park sits on the northern DC border. Not to mention that it’s the equivalent of Berkeley on the east coast and has been like that for decades– it’s one of the only places where there are signs that it is a “Nuclear-Free Zone” when you enter. Oh, yeah, and it is pretty much filled with liberals and lesbians with kids. But I suppose according to her we shouldn’t live anywhere, let alone in clusters.

  • Oh, NO! If the gays take over, they’ll…. they’ll be able to marry… EACH OTHER! Then where would be as a nation? My God… think of the children… more and more gays will go door to door, trying to recruit for their cause, even launch a pro-gay war and crusade to convert people to the pro-gay cause or DIE!

    Wait… oh, sorry. That’s what the religious zealots do. Gays just like parades.

  • The homosexuals are getting involved politically on the most local level there is — city council, city government — and they are winning elections and the first thing they’re doing is passing, uh, laws, anti-discrimination laws and hate [crime] laws and things like that and, uh, you know….”

    Oh my… I’ve often wondered what the famous “homosexual agenda” might be, and now I know. They want laws!!! How despicable can they get??? Not to mention they want to educate our children, beginning at age two! How cruel, how disgusting, how un-natural!!! I thought that all they wanted was to force us into homosexual relationships and into eating Greek salads, but this is much, much, more dangerous to the very fabric of society…

  • YAY Morbo is back!!

    Didn’t one of the victims of the Murrah Bombing write Kerns a letter after her statement about gays being worse than terrorists? Obviously she didn’t comprehend what his words meant or empathize with his heartfelt pain.

    Okies aren’t all like Kerns and Coburn and Inhoffe. Please remember Will Rogers, Woody and Arlo Guthrie and Tony Hillerman to name a few. Plus some of the best damned college football teams ever.

    And besides, it’s hard to hate a people whose state flower is the missletoe, a parasite that can kill it’s host tree; or who named an airport after a guy killed in a plane crash, i.e., Will Rogers International in OKC. There’s something quite hopeful and silly about those facts, and they always make me smile 🙂

  • Oklahoma seems to have more than its share of knuckle-draggers, and my condolences to those who live there who have evolved to a more advanced stage. Unfortunately, there is no uninhabited land area left large enough to give these throwbacks a refuge in which they can preach to each other and burn witches at the stake. But I would be willing to have my tax money find a planet for them to colonize. What would emerge from their inbreeding is frightening to contemplate, but at least they wouldn’t contaminate rational discourse with pernicious drivel such as Kern’s.

  • Rep. Sally Kern was asked recently on a local TV news program what would she do if she had a gay son. She replied she would love him all the more as he would need it.

    Yet, Kern continues to insist that gays are more dangerous than terrorists or Islam.

    If there is a mother proclaiming to the world that gays are more dangerous than terrorists and Islam and hypothetically has a gay son, and in a public forum has said if she had a gay son she would love him all the more, she has a severe mental condition and has forfeited any resemblance of respect for her virulent views from any decent respectable person with any molecule of sense in their education.

    How can she proclaim a mother’s love for her own son, yet condemn the gay children of other mothers of America?

    Why does Sally Kern consider the love for her own children to be more definitive than the love other mothers have for their gay sons, and who don’t call them dangerous to our country?

    I’m not interested in the sexual orientation of Rep. Kern’s children, yet Kern is fascinated with the private lives of total strangers who have caused her no harm whatsoever. I am interested in her hypocrisy.

    People and organizations such as those that support Rep.Kern are desirous of only one thing and that is to control others in order to stamp out anything resembling “otherness”.

    Such a country, if they had their way would no longer be the Democracy Kern claims to be defending, but rather a Theocracy, devoted to the practice of religion, much like the Islamic countries Kern denounces as dangerous.

  • Morbo! Good to see you again! I’m glad you’re back- we love CB, we love him muchly, but we love you, too! Did Stephen Colbert send you a WristStrong bracelet?

    Thanks for spanking Sally. Wonderful stuff, as always!

  • Morbo!! We have missed you for lo, these long, long weeks!! Glad to have you back in fine forml Wriststrong, my man, indeed.

  • I live in Tacoma, and we seem to be surviving the “gay menace” just fine, thank you. What a disgusting piece of bilge.

  • I too am so glad to see you back, Morbo! Hope you’re all recovered from that nasty accident and from the looks of this post, you’re rarin’ to go! Saturday hasn’t been the same without you these long weeks past …

  • Morbo, ya pansy!
    Couldn’t hunt n’ peck with your right hand?

    As for the women’s suffrage crack, I’m unaware of any society that survived this wretched “way of life” longer than the 88 years we’ve survived.
    Women only voted starting in 1920.

  • Loving the Hater
    While Hating the Hate

    by James Nimmo

    (OKLAHOMA CITY) I found a link recently to a blog (www.bilerico.com) that contains a comment (http://tinyurl.com/4qdbph) written in reaction to reading the main story about the Oklahoma City chapter of PFLAG and their recording of Rep Sally Kern (http://tinyurl.com/2zbpgn) that catches Kern in her spider web of hubris and cant.

    Like the author, I too, am very disappointed with the approach of “loving the hater while hating the hate.”

    Of course, I respect our supporters who use their close relationship with Jesus to try and gain support for LGBT citizens and other minorities who are used for verbal target practice in the war for suppression of civil rights.

    I’m delighted the Oklahoma City PFLAG chapter was able to document the duplicity of Sally Kern and record with her permission the lies she later reported as irresponsibility on the part of PFLAG. This single incident should show you the arrogance and madness that is being passed off as legislative Republican leadership. Not one elected official in Oklahoma from either major party has come strongly to the defense and support of the LGBT taxpayers living in Oklahoma.

    Had Kern used race, skin color, or ethnic origin as her subject I bet the rent she would be renewing her teaching certificate today and looking for a school that would hire her.

    The First Amendment guarantees both sides the freedom to practice their respective religious viewpoints and the market place in which to talk about them.

    However, this same First Amendment does NOT give either side permission to encode their religious viewpoints into CIVIL law. I feel this is where we miss the boat in establishing our birthright to equal treatment under judicial law, and not the ten laws of Deuteronomy.

    There will always be a bible verse to trump the opposing bible verse resulting in a version of ping-pong skirmishes with Jesus as the referee.

    The writer gives some specific examples of public, peaceful protest that we can engage in to show that LGBTs are neither the doormats nor the monsters our enemies make us to be.

    It’s odd that our suppressors are either afraid to be in the same room with us, fearing for their own bodily integrity, keeping their knees close together; or they dismiss us as dippy airheads, frivolous and irresponsible. How can we be both at the same time?

    Their response shows more about the fiction in their minds then about the truth of our lives.

    Until we get out of the religious justification business the more we’ll be dragged into its historical quagmire. Look at the present wars being fought around the world and you’ll see religious intolerance at the root.

    Our LGBT equality will have to be established in the legislatures and the courthouses in all fifty states without religious prejudice tipping the scales of justice.

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