Sally Kerns is the bad penny of Oklahoma politics. In a debate with her Democratic opponent Ms. Kerns used the same line she used back in March of this year which drew national attention to the diminutive Oklahoma State Representative.
“While terrorism has killed more than 3,000 people in the continental United States in the last 15 years, homosexual behavior has killed more than 100,000,” she said again. “It's a danger to life. It is a danger to health.”
At the time I figured she was just making one last growl before she and the rest of the homophobic dinosaurs sank into the tar pit of history, but I was wrong. Even after the firestorm of controversy she caused, which brought derision to the state and her office by both the press and politicians, Kerns is unrepentant.
The debate even erupted into a shouting match at one point when her challenger’s wife stood up in the audience and called Kerns a liar. I wish I could have been there to watch.
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