Kern disappears in flash of light

Queeristan newswire:

Sally Kern, the controversial Oklahoma state representative now infamous for her recorded comments denigrating gays, as well as Muslims and non-Christians, disappeared this morning from her office in the State Capitol building in Tulsa in what was described by an aide as The Rapture.

“Yes indeed, I believe her Maker called her up for the final days!” said Edith Fish.  “A flash of light came, and I heard the voice of the Lord like a roll of thunder and when I could see again, she was gone.”

The disappearance occurred minutes after a delegation from OK-PLAG met with Kern in her office.   The Rev. Loyce Newton-Edwards, president of the Oklahoma City chapter, explained that “What we said to her was that we were coming in a spirit of healing and reconciliation and we just wanted to talk and speak heart-to-heart.”  Newton-Edwards said he and the other members of the PFLAG delegation were no longer in the building when the alleged taking-up-to-heaven transpired.

Oklahoma detectives and the FBI are on the scene.  They are testing a granular white residue that was left after the incident.  “Looks like about 120-125 pounds of material.  We’re waiting for it to cool down before sending it to the lab” said Special Agent Dick Sargeant.

Queeristan will keep you posted.

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I’m seriously going to have to start listening to more Moby.  I found this comment from him, via Towleroad, on Sally Kern’s public-private ranting about homosexuals:

“ok, where to begin…how about this simple question: what did jesus (presumably sally kern’s god) say about homosexuality? let’s see…nothing? yup, nothing. dear sally kern: jesus never mentioned homosexuality. allow me to put it a different way, perhaps in question form…how many times did jesus mention homosexuality? oh (to be conversational), none? yup none. never. not once. zero. he did mention divorce (saying it was bad), and capitalism (ditto: bad), and judgementalism and intolerance (again: bad), and forgiveness (good). but homosexuality? never mentioned by jesus in the gospels. so why are the religious right in the u.s so utterly obsessed with homosexuality? and how is the homosexual agenda (whatever that might be) destroying the nation? i mean, if evangelicals call themselves christians shouldn’t they sort of base their evangelical agenda on the things that christ actually said?

While his comments in the quoted Advocate article are over-the-top he’s obviously a good friend to have.

Pelosi – Dem Superdelegates must follow the will of the voters

Nancy Pelosi spokesperson Brendan Daly last night issued a statement responding to supporters of Hillary Clinton, who have been urging the House Speaker to back off comments she has made regarding the Democratic Super Delegates.

Speaker Pelosi is confident that superdelegates will choose between Sens. Clinton or Obama — our two strong candidates — before the convention in August.  That choice will be based on many considerations, including respecting the decisions of millions of Americans who have voted in primaries and participated in caucuses. The speaker believes it would do great harm to the Democratic Party if superdelegates are perceived to overturn the will of the voters. This has been her position throughout this primary season, regardless of who was ahead at any particular point in delegates or votes.

Separately in a piece in the NYT, it was reported that Clinton’s lead over Obama among the superdelegates has indeed been slipping, and is now down to only about 60 delegates.