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Thursday, May 29
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Source: AlterNet Kern's anti-gay rant In the Republican-dominated Oklahoma statehouse, legislators are defining new frontiers of bigotry, according to a analysis by Richard L. Fricker of Consortium News . The Legislators have passed xenophobic immigration laws, engaged in widely supported verbal gay bashing, spouted anti-Muslim bigotry, and encouraged gun-toting students. Through it all, Democratic legislators have often been too timid to resist, Fricker reports. Sally Kern made herself into a local hero of bigotry by focusing on what she insists is the country's gravest danger: gays and...
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Friday, May 16
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Source: KOCO-TV , Tulsa World Kern's anti-gay rant OKLAHOMA CITY -- State Rep. Sally Kern has been out of the news lately, but decided to refresh her anti-gay image Thursday with a press release and interviews criticizing a lobby day for workplace fairness. She objected that "radical homosexual rights groups'' that planned a national day on Thursday to promote workplace fairness based on job performance. Kern, R-Oklahoma City, said Oklahomans who support what she calls "traditional families" need to get more involved in policy fights "or we will cede the victory...
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Wednesday, April 16
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Source: Journal Record (Oklahoma City) Kern's anti-gay rant Rep. Sally Kern's now-infamous anti-gay speech to a state Republican gathering have had repercussions to the state's bottom line as businesses considering relocation to the state express concern, an Oklahoma newspaper reports. Staubauch Co., a San Francisco Bay-area financial services company, has not yet ruled out Oklahoma City for a major office relocation, a vice president of a real estate search firm confirmed, but a consultant hired by the company was troubled by Kern’s comments during a recent visit to the city, a chamber...
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Wednesday, April 09
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Group releases audio tape of its meeting with Kern Source: PFAG blog Kern's anti-gay rant After Kern disagreed with PFLAG's characterization of a meeting she'd had with Oklahoma PFLAG members, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) has released the full 40-minute audio of the meeting. The un-edited audio was posted in five parts to PFLAG's section on YouTube after Kern insisted the organization had misrepresented her statements to reporters following the March 27 sit-down. After the meeting, which was positively characterized by PFLAG members as helpful, Kern...
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Wednesday, April 02
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Source: Associated Press , The Oklahoman , KSBI TV Kern's anti-gay rant OKLAHOMA CITY -- More than 1,000 people rallied at the state Capitol on Wednesday in support of a state legislator who has been widely criticized for anti-gay remarks caught in a YouTube audio clip . Republican state Rep. Sally Kern was denounced by gay and lesbian groups after she was recorded telling a recent gathering of fellow Republicans outside the Capitol that homosexuality poses a bigger threat to the nation than terrorism. Link: Local TV coverage of rally Kern was cheered Wednesday when she told the crowd that...
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Saturday, March 29
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Source: The Oklahoman Kern's anti-gay rant Concerned with reports that her anti-gay stance had softened slightly, Rep. Sally Kern told The Oklahoman Friday she won't meet again with members of a group supporting gay and lesbian rights, because the organization misstated her views. Several reports after a Thursday meeting between Kern and members of Oklahoma City chapter of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG) had indicated that the Oklahoma City lawmaker might have slightly softened her anti-gay stance and might consider voting for an anti-discrimination law that would...
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Thursday, March 27
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Source: PageOneQ , NGBlog Kern's anti-gay rant Oklahoma Rep. Sally Kern (R-Oklahoma City), who said that the gay lifestyle is a bigger threat to America than terrorism, faced off against an openly gay pastor last Sunday in a debate on that delved into politics, theology, and scientific research. Kern, as expected, did not apologize or recant her words. Instead, she alternated between denial, clarification, and justification and at one point she even went so far as to present herself about knowing the bible more than Jones. The debate on KFOR TV's "Flash Point" featured Kern, host...
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Monday, March 24
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Source: The Oklahoman , AP via KTEN TV Kern's anti-gay rant A 59-year-old social worker says he plans to run against an Oklahoma lawmaker whose anti-gay remarks have provoked calls for her resignation. Democrat Ron Marlett said Monday he will oppose Republican Rep. Sally Kern in this fall's election for her Oklahoma City-area seat in the state House. Kern told The Oklahoman that she's not surprised by the challenge. "That's the way the process works,” she said. "If somebody wants to run against me, that's their right for whatever reason. It doesn't matter.” Marlett...
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Wednesday, March 19
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Source: Tulsa World , Oklahoman Kern's anti-gay rant OR senator, 'phobe OKLAHOMA CITY -- Advocates of gay and lesbian rights came to the Capitol in force Tuesday in hopes of meeting with Rep. Sally Kern, but they were told that the lawmaker who called homosexuality worse than "terrorists and Islam" was nowhere to be found. About 300 people gathered to protest Kern's recent comments, which ended up on YouTube and drew national attention. [see video of rally from The Oklahoman at the bottom of this post ] Robin Meyers, senior minister at Mayflower Congregational Church in Oklahoma...
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Friday, March 14
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Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , ABC News , Tulsa World , Dallas Voice Kern's anti-gay rant Pittsburgh Council President Doug Shields late yesterday fired off an angry e-mail demanding an apology from, and the resignation of, an Oklahoma state representative who made recent comments criticizing homosexual elected officials and including Pittsburgh in a list of cities gays are "infiltrating." "I was thoroughly disgusted by what you had to say and astonished that someone who presumably took an oath of office to uphold the U.S. Constitution and the laws of this nation would espouse...
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Wednesday, March 12
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Source: Muskogee [OK] Phoenix Kern's anti-gay rant Don’t expect state Rep. Sally Kern to apologize. She would rather be pharisaic than polite. Kern, R-Oklahoma City, went on a rant at a Republican function recently, claiming that the homosexual agenda is destroying the nation and that “it’s the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam.” [see Qnews summary ] Kern accused people whose lifestyle she doesn’t agree with of being the kind of people who fly airplanes into buildings. Kern says she was only referring to those who promote a homosexual lifestyle, but Kern has...
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Tuesday, March 11
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Source: Tulsa World , Oklahoman , Associated Press via Dallas News Oklahoma state Rep. Sally Kern says she does not plan to apologize for comments in which she calls homosexuality "the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam.” Kern said that she expected her colleagues in the legislature would reject calls for her to be censured. Kern told Tulsa World that she received a standing ovation from her fellow Republican legislators Monday. Justice Waidner, executive director of Oklahomans for Equality, said in a press release that "OkEq firmly supports Rep. Kern's...
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Monday, March 10
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Source: Oklahoman , KSWO TV , PageOneQ , Associated Press via Tulsa World Oklahoma City Rep. Sally Kern told The Oklahoman on Monday that she will not apologize for comments she made about homosexuality and does not believe her actions will draw a censure by her fellow lawmakers. But in an interview with Associated Press, Kern claimed that her comments had been edited and taken out of context. "I have never said hate speech against anybody. I would never do that," she claimed. The Cimarron Alliance Foundation, an Oklahoma City-based gay rights group, has sent a letter to House Speaker...
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