Our Response to 'Religious Literalists Hurting Oklahoma'-Article in "Oklahoma Peace Strategy"

Nathaniel Batchelder wrote an article titled "Religious Literalists Hurting Oklahoma," about Representative Sally Kern's recent statements that 'the gay-agenda is a threat like terrorism and cancer.'

Batchelder wrote that Rep. Kern's statement was the equivalent of saying 'God wants `dem gays t`uh burrrn like deemons!'

We agree with him to an extent, but we also see the wide-view of the situation; so we sent this response:

Regarding Rep. Sally Kern's anti-gay statements, I think I've written elsewhere that 'her livelihood rests on the fact that happy heterosexual couples raise good, hard-working children.' Her use of "terrorism" and "cancer" to make 'gayness' look bad is like the use of "fire" and "suffering" to make ~sin~ look bad.

As far as the rest of the inequalities formerly upheld by Bible literalists (slavery, women's non-voting, racial segregation): those abolishments took place when the offended parties stood up and took their rights!

I don't exactly recall what Sally Kern was supporting with her anti-gay statements, but I can guess it was the 'hetero-only'-limit on marriage. The long-and-short of the law there would be that--no matter ~how~ things appear in the eyes of God or -of society-at-large--members of homosexual couples are still "single" in the eyes of the law.