Sally Kern: A Star Is Boring

I have to agree with Mr. Quigley. I think this article did nto exactly represent all aspects of this story correctly. The whole thing makes Oklahoma sound bad. If we could just learn to let go of the whole dramatic situation it would fade away and we could move forward in addressing more important issues.

Sally Kern's minister husband is a nut too. He made an angry fool of himself a few years ago at a speech on teaching evolution vs. creationism (as i recall) at the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History in Norman. He interrupted the speaker, banged his bible, and demanded equal time for Creationism. He was truly frothing at the mouth and shaking and red-faced in anger. He was finally escorted out of the hall, where he continued ranting at the speaker, and finally escorted to his car. You can't rationalize somebody out of something that they didn't arrive at by rationality. This covers Sally and husband.

It is very important to get our facts correct if we go after others. Kern Failed in her attempt to get "Homosexcuaqlly Themed" books isolated in the public libraries. Terri Miller is incorrect in her summation of the library sytem although she is correct in the religious one. We all look foolish if we like people like Sally Kern stretch truth for effect. I and a few others worked very hard against Kern, and won. Miller's summation makes it appear Kern won her first crusade. The problem with this is that people might go now and waste a lot of energy on something that is already over when time and attention needs to be spent on real issues. Sensationalism is harmful both ways.

Rep. Sally Kern, asked lately on local TV what she'd do if she had a gay son, replied she would love him all the more as he would need it. If there is a mother proclaiming that gays are more dangerous than terrorists and Islam and hypothetically has a gay son, and in a public forum said if she had a gay son she would love him all the more, she has a severe mental condition and has forfeited any resemblance of respect for her virulent views from any decent respectable person with any molecule of sense in their education. Kern is fascinated with the private lives of strangers who have caused her no harm. People and organizations such as those that support Rep. Kern are desirous of only one thing and that is to control others in order to stamp out "otherness". If they had their way, the USA would no longer be the democracy Kern claims to defend, but rather a theocracy devoted to the practice of religion, much like the Islamic countries Kern denounces as dangerous.

Among Kern's other stunts is her forcing libraries to put children's books out of children's reach. Such books as My Two Mommies, or King and King, or the book about the two male penguins that raised a chick are no longer accessible to children. Parents have to check out any children's book for their child if it remotely has anything to do with gay or lesbian. In addition, Kern is fighting for a bill to be passed that would make students able to respond to questions on tests and make statements in class from their religious point of view and that a teacher could be breaking the law if they did not take the answer as correct or acceptable. I used to work with this woman. It is obvious to anyone that she has missed her calling. She is not a legislator, she is a crusader for her view of how the world should be, which to many of us is quite scary.