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TechnoratiOklahoma Rep. Sally Kern (R-Oklahoma City), who said that the homosexual lifestyle is a bigger threat to American than terrorism, faced off against an openly gay pastor Easter Sunday in a debate on homosexuality that delved into politics and theology.
The debate on KFOR-TV's "Flash Point,” which was posted on YouTube, featured Kern, host Kevin Ogle, panelists Burns Hargis and Mike Turpen, and Dr. Scott Jones of Oklahoma City's Cathedral of Hope. Hargis defended Kern's views while Turpen sided with Jones.
During the debate, Kern clarified comments she made at a Republican event in January, saying that she was speaking of the "homosexual agenda" and not people who are gay.
"They are out there putting forth-funding very heavily-homosexual and pro-homosexual candidates to run against, and defeat, conservatives across the nation," she explained.
Just like terrorism "destroys and tears down," continued the Oklahoma legislator, the homosexual agenda "is at the heart of trying to tear down what is the bedrock foundation of our society, which is the family and traditional marriage."
The Oklahoma legislator has received over 7,000 e-mails and voice messages – including a few death threats – for her comments comparing the gay lifestyle to terrorism. Her comments generated national attention after pro-homosexual group Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund posted the recording on YouTube two weeks ago. The video has been viewed more than 1 million times.
On the Sunday television program, Turpen asked Kern whether she believed Jones was more dangerous than Osama bin Laden.
Now, I was not saying that Scott here is personally as dangerous as Osama bin Laden," Kern responded, "but I was just making a comparison to prove my point."
She also countered that it is actually Christians who have been the target of such speech.
"On many occasions, Christians have been compared to terrorists because of our beliefs in traditional family and sticking to the Bible," said Kern. "There's a website right now called American Taliban, where Christians are identified as worse than terrorists and you don’t hear anything being said about that."
Jones said that while he denounces hate speech, he wanted to know whether Kern thought gay people were like cancer and terrorists – both something that people want to "kill" or "annihilate."
Kern reiterated once more that she was referring to the homosexual agenda and lifestyle, not the people themselves.
It is "a lifestyle that has deadly consequences for our young people, a lifestyle that will – if it becomes mainstream throughout society – … destroy the Christian religion,” she said to Jones.
“[Pat] Buchanan said in his book, 'The Death of a Nation,' that for homosexuality to succeed they have to destroy Christianity," Kern added.
"I wasn't saying that you guys were a cancer," she continued. "I was saying that the effect is the very same as a cancer. If God's people do not stand up and proclaim God's Word, which teaches that homosexuality is a sin, and if we try to just ignore it and let it become mainstream and take on the mentality that you folks want – that it's a normal lifestyle – then that is going to spread through our culture, and we will no longer have the same kind of culture we've had for over 200 years. That's all I meant." Continue >>
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