Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern, the
woman best known for saying gays were the “biggest threat our
nation has” at a gathering of Republicans, says she has found the
gay agenda. And it's not good.
Speaking at the Clouds Over America
conference, run and organized by the John Birch Society in Oklahoma
City, Kern told a welcoming crowd that she found the elusive gay
agenda between the pages of Marshall Kirk's and Hunter Madsen's 1990
book After The Ball: How America Will Conquer Its fear &
Hatred Of Gays In The 90s. Its authors mostly argue in 432
pages that gays and lesbians will most likely be accepted once they
are liked by the general public.
Oklahoma Gazette, the Oklahoma City
alternative weekly, reports Kern spoke to a packed crowd.
“You know,” Kern said, “I've done
a lot of reading on this. I wish I could describe to you their
behavior. I will not because I would be redder than this suit. It's
their behavior that we oppose.”
“This theme of equality and freedom
is the approach that the homosexuals are using today [as the book
describes] – totally perverting the true intention of what our
Constitution meant. ... The homosexuals get it – it's a struggle
between our religious freedoms and their right to do what they want
to do.”
Attendees at the late January
conference greeted Kern's speech with a round of Amens.
Kern called for a new “Great
Awakening” to defend the country against her newly found gay
agenda.
“The solution is another Great
Awakening, folks,” she said. “We need a spiritual revival, and
that will only come if God's people, especially you pastors, will
stand in your pulpits and vocally preach the word of God and thus
declare the Lord this sin, and preach it in love, only then does our
nation have a chance of overcoming the scourge of AIDS, HIV and the
devastating destruction that the homosexual lifestyle is bringing on
your children and grandchildren.”
Kern was the only politician to be
included in the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)
2008 list of top offenders. Her March speech vilifying gays made
headlines when the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund posted her rantings
on You Tube. The preacher's wife turned politician stood defiantly
in support of her views that the gay community is “the death knell
in the country” and “the biggest threat that our nation has, even
more so than terrorism or Islam,” and somehow managed to win
re-election.