Tag Archives: Oklahoma

The American Humanists Association has launched a fundraising page to help rebuild the Oklahoma home of atheist tornado victim Rebecca Vitsmun, who made international news after graciously rebuffing CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer’s questions about “thanking the Lord” for sparing the lives of her family.  (Tipped by JMG reader Bentley)

My eyes are still aching from the rolling when I saw this live yesterday. Somehow the interview subject handled him graciously.

Happy Place reports: Meet homophobia’s nemesis. All the anti-gay bigotry in the world is no match for the sheer fabulousness of a cute, skinny boy with ripped abs and tiny shorts wearing an American flag for a cape. In response to Jason Collins coming out, the irritating vermin of the Westboro Baptist Curch showed up on Wednesday to protest in …

Oklahoma’s House has unanimously endorsed a resolution endorsing DOMA but not before half of the chamber’s Democrats walked out of the chamber in outrage. The House approved the resolution Monday on an 84-0 vote. House Democratic Leader Scott Inman and openly gay Rep. Kay Floyd of Oklahoma City were among more than half of the chamber’s 29 Democrats who walked …

Saying that Oklahoma is one of the few states where “homofascists” have not yet gained a firm foothold, hate group leader Scott Lively has launched a drive to amend the state constitution to legalize anti-gay discrimination. Via World Net Daily: Rev. Scott Lively, who works with Defend the Family, now also has begun working with pastors and churches in Oklahoma …

Two employees at Tulsa’s Victory Christian megachurch have been arrested for child molestation and several other high-level staffers have been accused of shielding those crimes. More alleged sexual abuse victims at the 17,000-member Victory Christian Center in Tulsa, Okla., have come forward, adding to charges already made against the megachurch that its staff delayed reporting the alleged rape of a …

An Oklahoma gay man says he was nearly killed this weekend after vandals scrawled “fag” on his car and set it ablaze. It happened the morning of Saturday, July 21, in an alley behind his home on N.W. 140th Street near Western and Memorial in Oklahoma City. Jon Ferguson says his car alarm woke him up and when he walked …

Hate group leader Scott Lively is scheduled to speak in Oklahoma City and some local churches are organizing against his appearance. Canyon Walker urges participation: Thursday, several groups will join together with a unified voice for a Press Conference demanding that truth, rather than “Holocaust revisionism” be told and that the GLBT community be treated with fairness. Included in that …

The “personhood” people are super pissed at Oklahoma state Sen. Judy Eason McIntyre. Via press release: “The Personhood issue often provokes strong language from all sides,” commented Dan Skerbitz, president of Personhood Oklahoma. “But this display of vulgarity from a sitting senator is truly shocking. It is more evidence of the hardness of heart behind a movement that would deny …

Oklahoma state Rep. Constance Johnson (D) tried to sink an anti-abortion “personhood” bill with the above amendment. We bow and giggle at the same time.

Oklahoma GOP state Rep. Mike Reynolds has introduced a bill that would reinstate DADT for the state National Guard. Reynold’s bill would amend the existing state law that allows any able-bodied U.S. citizen or person who has declared intentions of becoming a citizen and who is at least 18 years old and not yet 70 to serve in the Guard. …

And many of us “openly admit to be being pedophiles” because we cannot reproduce. So says Christian preacher Tom Vineyard in his remarks in opposition to a gay rights bill in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. You can express your displeasure with this honest Christian man at his church. UPDATE: Duncan Osborne at Gay City News forwards us the actual source for …

“I have to be honest with you Rick, when I was sitting there in my car that day and when she told me that those emails were coming from homosexuals, honestly, fear gripped by whole body, because I was very aware of the homosexual lobbyists and the power that they have. And people say, ‘oh you’re so brave, so heroic,’ …

Yesterday Marine Corps recruiters fulfilled an invitation to set up a table at Tulsa’s LGBT community center. The Marines were the service most opposed to ending the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, but they were the only one of five invited branches of the military to turn up with their recruiting table and chin-up bar at the center Tuesday morning. …

“In the last twenty years, fifteen to twenty 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? And you know, every day our young people, …

“I wanted to see what kind of traction my opponent was getting so I had a survey done by a good group here in Oklahoma and what we found out which I think, this just shows the Lord’s wisdom and intervention, I have the most conservative district and the most churched district in all of Oklahoma. Now, isn’t that something? …

“To me what is hateful is when those people who say ‘you’re born this way, there’s no hope in change, you’re stuck in this, deal with it,’ that is hate. There’s no hope in that. We’re losing our freedom of conscience. And if the homosexuals get what they want, and as you said it’s not just homosexuality, its immorality or …

The bit of Onion-pwnage comes via trans attorney Brittany Novatny, whom you may recall made history when she ran against Kern last year.

After facing calls for her resignation by GLAAD and the NAACP, Oklahoma lawmaker Sally Kern has voted to approve her own reprimand by the state House for racist remarks made last week. Kern preceded her vote with another apology, this one delivered to the full chamber. “Last Wednesday night while debating a bill, I said some words that were not …