Of course – they are the most hate filled people in this nation, indebted to the christian right who totally defame the meaning of God and Jesus life on earth. Just as their forebears gave us slavery and segregation, she and her kind who infest that party have to have someone else now to hate- that is exactly what it is – hate, to gain political power.

I remember Bush talking about the Axis of Evil. What most of didn’t know was that one of the bolts of that Axis of evil is the right wing extremists who control the republcian party. The battle against religious terrorism begins at home.

Yes, 9/11 was a terrible event. But so are the 3000 more children every year who committ suicide because they are gay and treated like pariahs in our society. And let alone the suffering and machoism based murders of gays, and the kids kicked out of their family, in the name of God.

Tonite, as an aside, we went to a musical at our local high school. And I noticed several kids who are obviously gay – I’ve spent hours walking the streets of Baltimore with a couple gay friends, getting lessons. And the thing that impressed me was that these gay kids had friends, both same and opposite sex. I don’t know what their overall life is like, but in school in this wealthy conservative community, they appear to be doing well.

As for Sally, I’ll believe it when she supports removing all legal discrimination against gay people, making them a protected class. Employment, public accomodations etc. But with a husband who is a Baptist minister – usually the right wing of the right wing – the descendants of who gave us slavery and segregation, I have my doubts.

Readers,

First things first. If you don’t know who Rep. Sally Kern is or if you need a reminder, go here: http://tinyurl.com/29wv6f

Complete audio and transcript, not just the Victory Fund clip, here: http://www.equalrightsproject.com/

Now, you’re up to date.

The letter posted below appears in the March 26 edition of a weekly paper in Oklahoma City named the Oklahoma Gazette (www.okgazette.com).
The paper does not post its letters at the website.

Joe Quigley was described in all details but name by Rep. Kern in her original taped tirade that was revealed by the Victory Fund Youtube posting earlier in March.

It seems Rep. Kern takes the approach that if we ourselves aren’t ashamed of being gay, (choosing that “lifestyle” to use her language) then why should any of us be alarmed by her calling us “out”, so to speak.

She fails to understand that just as rumors of the gay “lifestyle” circulating about the Kern family caused her and her family distress, so can that same strategy cause distress among those gay people who have chosen to keep their orientation private.

Most recently, Rep. Kern chose to out another public school employee, again described in all details but name, just as Kern did with Mr. Quigley.
This was done in a local TV news program called Flashpoint which you can view here: http://www.kfor.com/Global/category.asp?C=22780
Choose the segments for March 23.

When Kern needs to backpedal and appear soft and cuddly she trots out the old bigot’s defense of “Some of my best friends are____.” Then you fill in the blank with the minority being targeted.

Rep Kern thinks other people’s private lives can be made an open book when it serves her self-righteous purposes. It’s time she was made aware that such self-centered actions are not considered polite in decent society. Just where did she learn her manners?

You can tell her yourself at this address: http://tinyurl.com/yqe8kk

Whether you use email, postal mail, or telephone, keep it legal and decent. We don’t need to give the Kern Konservative Korps any ammunition to use against us.

Remember, we GLBTs ARE legal; it’s her kind that are still in the 19th century.

Here is the original letter sent to the OK Gazette by Joe Quigley, who Kern has selected as her scapegoat, whipping boy, verbal target, sponge for her anxiety, etc. You get the drift.

Jim Nimmo

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Dear Editor,

Having read the complete transcript of Rep. Sally Kern’s now infamous speech to the Republican Club, I found she has decided to use me as her unwitting and unwilling example of the dangers of Gay teachers in public schools.

She stated, “Now I’m not a gay basher, okay. When I taught school three doors down from me was one of the most obnoxious gay people that you can mention. If I named him you probably have seen him. He writes in the paper all the time and everything. But you know, he has the right to practice that life-style if he chooses but he does not have the right to indoctrinate his classes. You know, that’s not what education is about.”

However on April 21, 2005 , when she was attempting to have “Homosexually themed” books isolated in the Metro Library System, she said the following, “I taught down the hall from my colleague, Joe Quigley, sitting right over there. I often heard him teach and I think he is an excellent teacher. It is just his life-style I do not find acceptable.”

It would appear Rep. Kern plays fast and loose with the truth as it serves her purposes. One of these statements has to be untrue as they are contradictory. She changed her characterization of me as she saw fit. In the latter case she needed to appear open minded to a public crowd, in the former she needed to appeal to a smaller, less public audience.

While claiming the higher ground and a mission from God, she has found it necessary to lie at least once to get her way. This lying is pitiful from a person claiming she is doing the Lord’s work. It should bring into question many, if not most or even all, of her claims of righteousness and her being a teller of the truth.

Further, her claims about my “lifestyle” are totally fabricated as she and I were not friends socially, and other than my advocacy for Gay students to protect them from bullying and harassment while at school, and what letters to editors she may have read, she has no knowledge of my life outside of school. She painted me as a monster for the sake of frightening an audience who had no idea that as they trusted her, she was lying to them.

Joseph Quigley

March 29th, 2008 at 12:39 am
It has always been my thought that a persons original remarks are what they fundamentally believe. Pandering to a politician who clearly has hired a “spin doctor” in order to keep her elected seat makes me infuriated. Is this a step in the right direction? I only see it as being one if her power as an elected official, actually helps the LGBT community politically. What I really think would be a step in the right direction is to not re-elect her again. Politicians, as public servants, must learn that they are here to help all constituents. When they, as elected leaders perpetuate the hate that has caused violence, isolation, murder and the destruction of families through their publicly spoken words, they no longer deserve the seat of honor they have been so fortunate to have been elected to.
Sally Kern, if nothing else understands “spin.” Let’s hope she now understands that she cannot make hateful remarks, without having to answer for them.

Respectfully,
Jimmy Palmieri
Co-chair West Hollywood Lesbian and Gay Advisory Board
founder of The Tweakers Project
http://www.myspace.com/lachefjim

When a politician has a long record of staunchly opposing any particular group or policy, both in speech and in votes, and then has a sudden reversal in a private meeting, it seems pretty obvious that the reversal is a lie.

If she starts sponsoring bills and voting in alignment with recommendations from the Human Rights Campaign, and continues for a year or more, then I might begin to believe her. I think that is extremely unlikely, because her right-wing Christian contributors will come calling at the first hint of any such bill or vote.

I take this report as a confirmation that she has no integrity.