Oklahoma Republican State Rep. Sally Kern says homosexuality has destructive consequences:
"The homosexual agenda is destroying this nation; it's just a fact," Kern is heard saying on a YouTube audio segment. "I honestly think it's the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam." ...
Kern said she made the comments in January to a Republican club meeting away from the state Capitol. Kern, a former social studies teacher in the Oklahoma City School District, said she talked about efforts by gay rights groups to target conservatives in recent elections.
"I said nothing that was not true, I said nothing out of hate and I don't believe my colleagues will censure me," Kern said. "I was speaking about the homosexual activists who are aggressively funding pro-homosexual candidates against conservative Republicans. In 2006, they targeted conservatives across the nation, mostly at the state and local levels. They took out 50 of them."
On the audio clipping, Kern can be heard saying the homosexual lifestyle "has deadly consequences for those people involved in it." "It is not a lifestyle that is not good for this nation. No society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than, you know, a few decades," she said.
Roth said comparing a "homosexual agenda" to terrorism is especially offensive. "Her outlandish comparison to the pain that terrorists cause demonstrates how her focus is skewed by her own bias," Roth said.
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Whether you agree with her or not, there is no particular difficulty in making a case that homosexuality is destructive. Homosexuals have fewer children and that could be seen as contributing to the current sub-replacement birthrate. And homosexuals themselves often die quite young as a consequence of AIDS. But you are not allowed to say any of that, apparently. Some arguments must not be heard.
