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News (USA)
Oklahoma lawmaker delivers antigay farewell speech
Rep. Sally Kern stands by remarks she made in 2008, when she said gay people pose a greater threat to America than terrorists.
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News (USA)
Oklahoma House committee OKs bill protecting conversion therapy providers
Legislation that would protect the practice of therapy that seeks to change people’s sexual orientation or gender identity in Oklahoma was approved by a state House committee Tuesday.
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News (USA)
Okla. House panel OKs anti‑gay marriage bill that targets court clerks with job loss
Judges or court clerks who issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples would lose their jobs under a bill that has been approved by a House committee. The bill now proceeds to the full House for a vote.
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News (USA)
Oklahoma lawmaker withdraws anti-gay ‘license to discriminate’ bill
An Oklahoma lawmaker who has introduced several anti-gay bills for the upcoming session is withdrawing one measure, widely criticized as a licensing businesses to discriminate against LGBT people.
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News (USA)
Okla. career anti-gay lawmaker introduces three bills targeting LGBT community
Oklahoma state lawmaker Sally Kern, who once called homosexuality “the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam,” has introduced three new measures targeting the LGBT community.
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News (USA)
Sally Kern’s husband loses runoff election for seat in Okla. state Senate
OKLAHOMA CITY — A pastor whose legislator wife has made incendiary comments about minorities and gays has lost a runoff election for a seat in the Oklahoma state Senate. Anesthesiologist Ervin Yen defeated Steve Kern in a runoff election for the Republican nomination to the District 40 Senate seat in Oklahoma City. Yen faces Democrat John Handy Edwards in the…
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Commentary
Legislating from the Bible: The red state foundation of government ‘service’
The Bible says it. I believe it. That settles it. While that reads like a tired bumper sticker, there are still lawmakers in the United States who use this as the very foundation of their government “service.” One such lawmaker is Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern. Even people who may not be able to find Oklahoma on a map know of Kern and her opposition to anything that resembles equality for LGBTQ Americans. Especially marriage equality…
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News (USA)
Okla. Rep. Sally Kern: ‘Homosexuality is not a civil right, it’s a human wrong’
Oklahoma lawmaker Sally Kern, who once called homosexuality “the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam,” decried a federal judge’s ruling striking down the state’s ban on same-sex marriage.
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News (USA)
‘Christian’ groups demand Fox News drop ‘homosexual agitator’ Wayne Besen
REEDVILLE, Va. — A number of self-described “Christian, family values” groups banded together Thursday demanding that Fox News discontinue guest appearances by “homosexual agitator” Wayne Besen on the O’Reilly Factor talk show, saying Besen is “demonizing conservative organizations and individuals.”
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Life
Blogger uncovers ‘secret’ Facebook group aimed at disseminating anti-gay information
LGBT activist and blogger Alvin McEwen this week uncovered a “secret” Facebook group — whose memberships reads like a “who’s who” of anti-gay activists — aimed at promoting and disseminating anti-gay information through websites, including Youtube, Twitter and Facebook.
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Life
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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Life
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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Commentary
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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Life
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.