Oklahoma State Representative Sally
Kern has said it's hateful to deny gay people can change their
sexuality, RightWingWatch.org
reported.
The 64-year-old Kern, who is best known
for saying gay
folks are the “biggest threat our nation has” at a 2008 gathering
of Republicans, joined American Family Association (AFA)
President Tim Wildmon on American Family Radio to promote her recent
book The Stoning of Sally Kern, in which she discusses the
criticism she received for opposing gay rights.
When Wildmon playfully poked Kern,
reminding her that as Christians they are called to have compassion,
Kern responded: “To me what is hateful is when those people who
say, 'You're born this way. There's no hope in change. You're stuck
in this, deal with it,' that is hate. There's no hope in that.”
Later Kern, the wife of a Baptist
minister, added that gay men and women were leading the movement to
“tear down the moral fiber of America.”
“We're losing our freedom of
conscience. And if the homosexuals get what they want, and as you
said it's not just homosexuality, it's immorality or adultery, all of
that, but in my opinion the homosexual movement is the tip of the
spear. They're the ones who right now are beating down the door,
have their foot in the door, trying to tear down the moral fiber of
America. We have to stand up to that. The reason it's the tip of
the spear you don't see 'Adulterers Victory Fund' out there trying to
promote adultery. God's people got to stand up to this.”
Last year, Brittany
Novotny, a transgender woman, attempted to unseat Kern.