Backers for anti-gay Oklahoma state
Representative Sally Kern have called her transgender rival Brittany
Novotny “a confused 'it,'” gay
weekly the Dallas Voice reported.
Novotny is challenging Kern, the woman
best known for saying gay folks were the “biggest threat our nation
has” at a 2008 gathering of Republicans, for the seat she's held
since 2005.
In an email to members of the Oklahoma
Conservative Political Action Committee (OCPAC), the group's
president, Charlie Meadows, calls Novotny “a confused 'it'” and
suggests she hates God.
“Brittany used to be a 'he,' had a
sex change operation to make him into a 'her' but turned out to
become a confused 'it.' Some have suggested that having a sex change
operation is a person's greatest act of rebellion and hatred toward
God for His making them what they were,” Meadows wrote in the
email.
“The hatred and rage toward Sally
[Kern] continues unabated in the homosexual community because Sally
dared to declare their political agenda for what it truly is, more
dangerous to the future of America than the threat of terrorism.”
Novotny, who
posted the email on her campaign website, responded by saying
Oklahomans are tired of such attacks.
“This type of personal attack is what
Oklahomans are tired of, and it shows why Kern and her political
allies continue to be out of touch with mainstream Oklahoma values,”
she said.
While Kern faced stiff criticism from
gay rights groups for her comments, the media attention turned the
politician into an overnight right-wing celebrity. And the
63-year-old Baptist minister's wife has continued to speak out
against gay rights.
Earlier this year at the John Birch
Society's Clouds Over America conference, Kern called for a
new “Great Awakening” to defend America against the gay rights
movement, which she called the “gay agenda.”
“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.”