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Why do You Yell Fire in a Crowded Theatre? — Open Letter to Rep. Sally Kern

by Open-Publishing - Monday 10 March 2008
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James Nimmo
March 09, 2008
sallykern mfq okhouse.gov

Mrs. Kern:

I’ve just listened to the 20-minute interview you had with Oklahoma City’s TV-9 in regard to the public speech you made sometime after the first of the year deriding and demeaning Oklahoma’s gay/lesbian taxpaying citizens.

You were NOT secretly recorded as you claim; you saw the recording device.
Why must you always play the victim when your homophobic schemes are made public?

Victory Fund link: http://tinyurl.com/yq9lak

Oklahoma City TV-9 link: http://tinyurl.com/2h93ea

The real danger is not whether being gay/lesbian is more of a threat than terrorism or the Islamic religion. I think the real danger is you as a legislator standing on the soapbox paid for by the taxpayer and denouncing honest, hardworking Oklahomans as inferior to you and your acquaintances.

You keep referring to the home, the family, and traditional marriage as being threatened by gay people who want the same things for their families that you already have. Do you feel there is a shortage of love and commitment and it must be rationed to only people who act and think as you do?

Why are you not introducing bills that would eliminate divorce? Divorce is the opposite of marriage and frequently causes distress to children yet what are you doing about this refutation of traditional marriage?

You couch your diatribes in terms of the First Amendment guarantee of free speech but you fail to back them up with specific references to peer-reviewed studies or professionally-qualified experts.

I feel this is the equivalent of yelling fire in a crowded theater.

Yes, you can say these things, but as a legislator you owe to your constituents as well as those hearing you to base your remarks on facts and not your superstitions.

James Nimmo
Oklahoma City, OK

Forum posts

  • Gay? There is nothing GAY about being homosexual. Sex belongs in the bedroom. There is no such thing as HOMOPHOBIA. There is only evil and good. If you prefer this lifestyle, then keep it in the bedroom. It doesn’t belong in the schools, in doesn’t belong in the workplace, it doesn’t belong in government. Sex is SEX. It is not race, it is not gender and IT IS A CHOICE. God gave us each and everyone a CHOICE to travel the path of good or evil.

    Government should stop trying to make someone’s sexual preference an issue in the corporate world. If one doesn’t discuss sex in the workplace then the issue won’t exist.

    Give homosexuals marriage so they too can pay the lifetime of INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE that many men and some women have to pay to someone that they divorced but have involved in their life until death.

    We have a corrupt government. They pass laws that are vague so they can say they mean something other than what was passed. Marriage licenses were created for interracial marriages. They were not meant for men and women. Marriage is between the man, woman and God. The State should never be a party to marriage.

    Take for instance, the seat belt law. I wrote my college paper on this law. The legislatures stated that there would never be a law that would allow the police to pull someone over & ticket them for no seatbelt. Our forefathers, in the Federalist Papers, stated that "NO LAW SHOULD EVER BE PASSED TO PROTECT US FROM OURSELVES.

    The same goes for second hand smoke. What is making us intolerant to most things is CHEMTRAILS. Smoking is a choice and second hand smoke is not toxic. CHEMTRAILS ARE!

    All these issues are created to keep us at odds with each other, so that we do not focus on the freedoms that governments are desperately trying to remove.

    Then there is 911. A created state, again to take away freedoms. Will it stand or will the criminals be tried and put to death. Who is creating the TERROR? Could it be the wealthy against the not so wealthy?

    Please look at the real issues, mainly the loss of FREEDOMS.

    Bush and Congress has passed laws that violate the CONSTITUTION. That, in effect, makes the laws NULL & VOID.

    • "All these issues are created to keep us at odds with each other, so that we do not focus on the freedoms that governments are desperately trying to remove".

      I couldn’t have said it better myself. Ditto the ’prayer in schools’ issue.
      When over %25 of our children are without adequate medical coverage or health insurance, a real issue I might add, the parasitic political class would have us debate over a non-issue like ’prayer in schools’.

  • The "gay" movement in the USA has from the very beginning been nourished by victimology. It has been the life-line of gay activists and their method of recruiting support and donations from straight "liberals." Why wasn’t Kern just ignored? The fact is that gay activists see rants like hers as an OPPORTUNITY to fan the flames among their liberal supporters again and hustle some more donations to their treasuries.

    REAL progressives in the USA have pretty much been defeated. American invaders have been in Iraq for five years. Deisel fuel is now so expensive that independent truck drivers are having to sell their trucks and fear foreclosure on their homes. The middle class keeps shrinking and the rich keep getting richer. We still haven’t had an honest 9/11 investigation. No amount of bashing of Sally Kerns is going to change this, but it makes pseudo-liberals feel good.