It's remarkable how the most consciously self-righteous are blind to the facts right in front of their faces.
Cartoon courtesy of Joe Quigley, Oklahoma City
His and Her Kern Revolutionary Regiment
by James Nimmo
(OKLAHOMA CITY) Not content with calling gay citizens terrorists and twice carrying a loaded handgun into the Oklahoma Capitol Building, GOPer Rep. Sally Kern has enlisted her husband, Steve Kern, into the family business of trying to maintain gays and lesbians as non-citizens.
Steve Kern is the pastor at Olivett Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, a position that gives him a culturally bully pulpit to read all the dirty parts of his bible and blame gay people for making him do it.
It's important to remember that when Steve Kern, standing in for his wife, speaks of liberty and freedom (Oklahoma Gazette, July 22, http://tinyurl.com/nptb8p ) he's not using these words looking for some lost American Garden of Eden. Those new to the Kern Kontroversy can read more here: http://tinyurl.com/yr63qo .
Kern and his bullying colleagues are feeling threatened by, and are desperate to forestall, the encroaching lose of their ability to dominate, terrorize, and otherwise impose apartheid on this country's gay and lesbian citizens. As this verbal lynch mob continues to get high on their hot air of bible bluster and goes off the edge with their flat earth rhetoric they are becoming more separated from the mainstream of Americans who know that gays and lesbians are integral threads in America's social and political fabric.
Gays and lesbians pay taxes, hold steady jobs, volunteer in the community, maintain families, get elected to public office, and serve in the Armed Forces. We bleed, live, and die just like everyone else. How is that a threat to anyone who takes the time to think about it?
How is diversity a threat to anyone unless they want to hide from what they don't understand?
It's remarkable how the most consciously self-righteous are blind to the facts right in front of their faces.
How revealing that the Kern Krowd uniform of choice is a black robe--setting themselves up to judge the rest of us?
You can read about the His and Her Kern Revolutionary Regiment here at the Oklahoma Gazette: http://tinyurl.com/nptb8p
Cartoon courtesy of Joe Quigley, Oklahoma City
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ReplyDeleteI read the article. It's the same ol' same ol'. America is on the verge of moral collapse; the barbarians (i.e., gays, liberals, Hollywood)are at the gate; we need a revival of the One True Faith! Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of American history should know that this is the traditional modus operandi of the conservative ecclesiastical establishment. The devils may differ from one era to the next, but the approach is the same: repent now or perish! This is the same sort of reasoning which sees divine intent behind every event. For example, the quip made by Jerry Falwell about how various sorts of people were responsible for 9/11. See, these sinners really pissed off God, so He took down his protective shield for a day just to show us the wages of sin.
The accusation made by Sally Kern that our sinful ways are responsible for the ongoing economic crisis is equally unprovable. Granted, the dishonesty and greed of many of our economic elite no doubt played a key role in this debacle, but to blame those who have no connection whatsoever to this matter is more than a little stupid. How bizarre to live in the 21st century, and yet to find that so many of our leaders follow 1st century thought processes.
Larry Forrest