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Oklahoma elects first openly gay state senator
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. — Oklahoma state Rep. Al McAffrey, was elected to the state Senate in a special election on Tuesday, becoming the first openly gay Oklahoma state senator.
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Oklahoma lawmaker wants to reinstate ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ for state’s National Guard
OKLAHOMA CITY — An Oklahoma City Republican lawmaker has introduced a measure that would reinstate the controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy to ban openly gay service members in the Oklahoma National Guard.
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Oklahoma City adds sexual orientation to city’s non-discrimination policy
The Oklahoma City Council this week voted to add sexual orientation to the city’s employment non-discrimination policy after a debate that lasted more than half of the council meeting.
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Oklahoma governor, legislative leaders mum on Sally Kern’s homophobic remarks
The HRC on Thursday announced that its members and supporters have sent 200,000 emails calling on Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin (R) and the state’s legislative leaders to denounce Republican State Rep. Sally Kern’s recent homophobic remarks…
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Kern doubles down on claim that homosexuality is ‘more dangerous’ than terrorist attacks
Oklahoma Republican state legislator Sally Kern has repeated her claim that homosexuality is “more dangerous” than terrorist attacks while lamenting that young people are “bombarded” with the message that “homosexuality is normal and natural.”
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Gays, Marriage Polls, Jesus and Sally Kern
My worldview doesn’t condemn anyone else to eternal fire and damnation. It doesn’t threaten anyone else at all, really. People … may think they’re being threatened, but I think they’re just scared — too scared to look at the reality of life with open hearts. Their hearts are set in stone — immovable, inflexible, afraid.
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Sally Kern to the defense of Ruben Diaz: ‘homosexuals mean for evil toward you’
Sally Kern, an Oklahoma state legislator known for her outspoken stance against homosexuality, has come to the defense of New York state Sen. Ruben Diaz Sr. (D-Bronx), a Pentecostal minister and the lone Democrat to vote against marriage equality.
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OK rejects bullying bill, ‘tired of people coming to legislature to solve problems’
Oklahoma lawmakers have voted against strengthening the state’s anti-bullying laws.
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Texas, Kansas, Montana, Oklahoma: states hold onto laws defining gay ‘conduct’ illegal
“Homosexual conduct” is still a crime in Texas — and at least three other states — eight years after the U.S. Supreme Court decision, Lawrence v. Texas, which struck down the state’s sodomy law, and invalidated similar laws across the country.
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Oklahoma gay teen commits suicide after ‘toxic’ city council debate
An Oklahoma teen has committed suicide, barely one week after attending a local City Council meeting where a debate over whether or not the city would recognize October as LGBT History Month got “toxic,” with many homophobic statements thrown around in front of him.