'Homosexuality Worse Than Terrorism,' Says State Representative

Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern has said that she feels homosexuality poses a greater threat to America than terrorism.

She expressed her sentiments, which have left many in an uproar, while on tour for her book, “The Stoning of Sally Kern: The Liberal Attack on Christian Conservatism and Why We Must Take a Stand.”

While discussing her book with Peter LaBarbera, president of “Americans for Truth about Homosexuality” in August, Kern detailed her opinion, stating that she felt homosexuality was worse than terrorism.

"If you just look at it in practical terms, which has destroyed and ended the life of more people? Terrorism attacks here in America or HIV/AIDS? In the last 20 years, 15 to 20 years, we’ve had maybe three terrorist attacks on our soil with a little over 5,000 people regrettably losing their lives. In the same time frame, there have been hundreds of thousands who have died because of having AIDS. So which one’s the biggest threat?” Kern said to LaBarbera.

The recorded discussion went viral and soon caught the attention of many, including comedienne and TV personality Ellen DeGeneres.

DeGeneres, a lesbian, made light of the situation on her day time talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, where she attempted to contact Kern, but was unable to leave a message on her voicemail.

DeGeneres publicly offered to have a discussion with Kern to clear up, what she called misconceptions.

In her discussion with LaBarbera, Kern continued detailing that the integration of homosexuality into schools and children's programming further contributes to the breakdown of society.

“And you know, every day our young people, adults too, but especially our young people, are bombarded at school, in movies, in music, on TV, in the mall, in magazines, they’re bombarded with ‘homosexuality is normal and natural.’ It’s something they have to deal with every day. Fortunately we don’t have to deal with a terrorist attack every day, and that’s what I mean,” she said.

“It’s more dangerous, and yes I think that it’s also more dangerous because it will tear down the moral fiber of this nation. We were founded as a nation upon the principles of religion and morality, if we take those out from under our society we will lose what has made us a great nation, we will no longer be a virtuous people, which we see happening already. And without virtue this nation will not survive.”