A group of some 300 dissenting Christians, gays and lesbians, and PFLAG rallied in the rotunda of the Oklahoma Reichstag Capitol building yesterday to demand an apology for the remarks of Rep. Sally Kern . Covered in yesterday’s Oklahoman, the assembly was not attended by even one single member of the legislature.
The Rev. Jim Shields, a retired United Methodist minister who lives in Kern’s district that covers parts of west Oklahoma City and Bethany, called on the Republican legislator to hold meetings in the district to talk with gays and Muslims.
If Kern doesn’t do those things, then she should resign, said the Rev. Loyce Newton-Edwards, assistant pastor of the Open Arms United Church of Christ and president of the Oklahoma City chapter of PFLAG, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.
More on point, for Kern has already said she would not apologize for her remarks, was this remark from Rob Howard of the Cimarron Alliance Foundation:
“Hateful speech leads to hate crimes just as surely as the sun rises in the morning,” he said.
Indeed. How many more calls to Kristallnacht need our community endure at the hands of organized hate groups, which now include the Oklahoma state legislature? Rep. Chris Benge (R-Tulsa), Speaker of the House, has refused to call for any official punishment or censure, referring to Rep. Kern’s call to action as free speech. Which goes to show, you can’t shame the shameless. But we can’t stop trying.
Check out the Victory Fund and consider a donation to the group that brought Sally Kern’s shameless words to light.
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Good post. Scary when that kind of speech comes from a legislator.
Just saw a post on towleroad referring to Christian Nazism which strikes a cord and obviously was what you had in mind when you referred to Kristallnacht.
How many years did the Jews listen to Nazi propoganda against them all the while confident that a rational society wouldn’t harm them.
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