Sally Kern: “Dangerous” Gays “Hijacked Freedom And Equality” Dooming US

Oklahoma lawmaker Sally Kern characterized gays as “dangerous,” “sinful,” and as “an enemy who wants to destroy us,” and said gays have hijacked freedom and equality “to destroy the future of America.” Kern was speaking with the head of the certified hate group, Americans For Truth About Homosexuality, Peter LaBarbera on his “Americans For Truth Radio Hour.”

Kern has been on a tour promoting her new book, “The Stoning of Sally Kern: The liberal attack on Christian conservatism-and why we must take a stand,” when she recorded the interview with LaBarbera, calling gays more dangerous than terrorists and comparing the attacks on 9/11 to HIV/AIDS.

Brian Tashman at Right Wing Watch, who first reported Kern’s comments that gays are “more dangerous” than terrorist attacks, offers the transcript and audio below, which he says is “put together a compilation of the most troubling statements from the second part of her interview with LaBarbera.”

LaBarbera: I believe the organized homosexuality movement is an evil movement, its organized sin. It’s taking what God says is wrong and pushing it literally as a right, as a civil right.

Kern: Well I think they’re trying to get the moral high ground and of course America was founded upon freedom and equality, and so they’ve hijacked that…. And as I’ve said earlier, I think they play up on freedom and equality. Sure we want everybody to have freedom and equality, but there should not be freedom and equality for sinful actions.

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It just blows my mind when we have evidence, statistics like you’ve just read, that show how dangerous the actions of homosexuals are, and yet we want to continue to teach this to our children? What kind of a future are we going to be giving to our children and our grandchildren if we continue to promote the homosexual lifestyle to them? We are sentencing them to a life of disease, premature death, depression, you know, it just blows my mind.

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There are always consequences to our actions, always consequences to our actions. And we will suffer the consequences of violating God’s moral law, which never changes. So that’s the issue. Are we going to believe that there is moral law that never changes, or are we going to be politically correct thinking that we can just do whatever we want? Because we can do what we want but we will suffer the consequences.

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If you have children or grandchildren, if you believe that America has been a great nation and you want to see it continue to be a great nation, now is the time to wise up and rise up about what’s going on in America. We do have an enemy who wants to destroy us. They are using sexual perversion to destroy the future of America, the future of our children, and we don’t have a minute to lose.

Of course, the logical first question is, “we don’t have a minute to lose” to do what, exactly?

Make homosexuality illegal?

Lock up the gays?

Stone them?

What does “wise up and rise up” actually mean, Sally?

What, exactly, is Oklahoma Representative Sally Kern suggesting “we” do?

Because to me, this sounds like Oklahoma Representative Sally Kern is inciting violence. That’s what this sounds like to me. “We don’t have a minute to lose” and “wise up and rise up” sounds like someone is suggesting armed insurrection against gays.

Irresponsible comments, especially from someone in a leadership position, a position of authority, like a priest, or a rabbi, or an elected official, are unacceptable.

“I do believe they are the equivalent of hate speech,” Fred Sainz of the Human Rights Campaign told MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts of Kern’s anti-gay comments on Wednesday, and added that “these kinds of statements lead to the fact that gays and lesbians can still be fired in 35 states across the country for their sexual orientation or in 41 states for their gender identity. There is also an epidemic of bullying across this country, and we believe there is a responsibility on our part to call out the statements by Representative Kern as not only inaccurate but as being incredibly injurious to a civil dialog in this country to the barriers to equality.”

Currently there is a petition and a drive to remove Kern from office. As The New Civil Rights Movement reported this summer, it’s not the first time, but this looks like they have a chance. I hope you’ll sign the petition over at Change.org, and check out their Facebook group. HRC also has a petition up. Sign them both.