March 21, 2008
Hate Speech is Not Free Speech
I encourage you to listen to what Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern (Republican) said at a gathering in her district. Hate speech is not free speech, and representative Kern needs to stand accountable for promulgating her homophobic agenda. Please sign the letter at the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, and pitch in a few bucks if you can.
Posted by rowan at March 21, 2008 8:49 PM | [eMail this article!] |O.K. here is a chance to make change and it only takes a seconds to do so.
Sign the petition, don't let this vile woman get away with this kind of language.
If you want change take the time to make it happen.
Posted by: bill at March 22, 2008 1:15 PMWhy do you yell fire in a crowded theater?
-- an open letter to Rep. Sally Kern
sallykern@okhouse.gov
Mrs. Kern:
I've just listened to the 20-minute interview you had with OKC's channel 9 in regard to the public speech you made sometime after the first of the year deriding and demeaning Oklahoma's gay/lesbian taxpaying citizens.
The real danger is not whether being gay/lesbian is more of a threat than terrorism or the Islamic religion. I think the real danger is you as a legislator standing on the soapbox paid for by the taxpayer and denouncing honest, hardworking Oklahomans as inferior to you and your acquaintances.
You keep referring to the home, the family, and traditional marriage as being threatened by gay people who want the same things for their families that you already have. Do you feel there is a shortage of love and commitment and it must be rationed to only people who act and think as you do?
Why are you not introducing bills that would eliminate divorce? Divorce is the opposite of marriage and frequently causes distress to children yet what are you doing about this refutation of traditional marriage?
You couch your diatribes in terms of the First Amendment guarantee of free speech but you fail to back them up with specific references to peer-reviewed studies or professionally-qualified experts.
I feel this is the equivalent of yelling fire in a crowded theater.
Yes, you can say these things, but as a legislator you owe to your constituents as well as those hearing you to base your remarks on facts and not your superstitions.
James Nimmo
If such a person slips through the first election process, it is on him or her, but if he or she is re-elected, it is on the people who re-elect the shit! A petition against an individual may be pointless if those who put the individual in office are the original on-going Evil!
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