Tag Archives: Oklahoma

“Given her long and well-documented history of extreme bias towards minorities, this apology means nothing. Republicans and Democrats alike agree that the kind of blatant bigotry from an elected official like Sally Kern has no place in our public sphere. Sally Kern should resign immediately.” – Jarrett Barrios, president of GLAAD, joining the NAACP in demanding that Kern resign.

The NAACP is calling for the resignation of Sally Kern after the Oklahoma legislator said that black people have higher rates of imprisonment because they are lazy. Via Advocate: NAACP state president Anthony Douglas wants Kern to resign. “This is an outrage. We’re calling for her to go today. She needs to step down now,” he said. Under the leadership …

On Tuesday, Oklahoma’s House voted unanimously to make Swing Low, Sweet Chariot the official state gospel song. No other state has an official religious song. When state Representative Jabar Shumate of Tulsa (left), the Oklahoma bill’s House sponsor, was asked by a colleague to give a rendering of the song on the House floor on Monday, he declined, saying his …

“We have a high percentage of blacks in prison and that’s tragic, but are they in prison just because they are black or because they don’t want to study as hard in school? I’ve taught school, and I saw a lot of people of color who didn’t study hard because they said the government would take care of them.” – …

Oklahoma state GOP Rep. Sally “Gays Are Worse Than Terrorists” Kern has self-published a book about her horrible treatment at the hands of those awful, awful homofascists. From the Amazon description of The Stoning Of Sally Kern: In January 2008, the pastor’s wife and former high school teacher gave a speech to a Republican club in Oklahoma City explaining that …

Members of Westboro Baptist Church returned to their minivan to find its tires slashed after their picket of the funeral of a McAlester, Oklahoma soldier. And every shop in town refused to make any repairs. As their minivan slowly hobbled away on two flat tires, with a McAlester police car following behind, the protesters were unable to find anyone in …

Arch homophobe Sally Kern easily won reelection to the Oklahoma state House yesterday, taking 66% of the vote over novice candidate and trans attorney Brittany Novotny. But Kern got there by pulling a dirty trick in the last week of the campaign, when she sent out a (hilariously misspelled) campaign mailer falsely claiming Notovny’s support for a spending issue. Novotny’s …

At the Values Voters douchebag-a-thon.

Sally Kern claims that “out of state gay millionaire” Tim Gill is secretly backing Brittany Novotny. Neither Gill nor his PAC have donated to Novotny.

The Dallas Voice reports that the group backing Oklahoma Rep. Sally Kern have begun circulating an email describing her trans opponent Brittany Novotny as “a confused it” with a “hatred for God.” The e-mail from the Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee, posted on Novotny’s website on Thursday, goes on to say that “Some have suggested that having a sex change …

“Here in America we’ve had what maybe three known real big terrorist attacks on our nation. But every day our young people especially, all of us, but our young people especially are in a sense bombarded with the message that homosexuality is normal and natural.” – Oklahoma state Rep. Sally Kern, repeating her 2009 claim that teh gay are worse …

This is a new campaign ad from Brittany Novotny, the trans attorney running against Sally Kern for the Oklahoma legislature.

The Washington Post tracks the states looking to copy Arizona’s racist anti-immigrant law. Lawmakers in Oklahoma, South Carolina and Utah, which have already taken steps against illegal immigration, say that Arizona-style measures have a realistic chance of passing when their legislatures reconvene in 2011. The Obama administration sued Arizona in federal court Tuesday, charging that the state law usurps federal …

The original Queen of Hate, Anita Bryant, will be slithering out of whatever sewer she’s been hiding in all these years to appear at an anti-gay event in Oklahoma tomorrow. Gossip Boy reports: The controversial Queen of Gay Hate, Anita Bryant, will be returning to the stage on July 9, 2010 for a patriotic performance in Yukon, OK before an …

Gay rights? In Oklahoma? Get out of here! Champagne corks popped at the Dennis R. Neill Equality Center on Thursday night after the City Council voted to add sexual orientation to Tulsa’s nondiscrimination policy. Oklahomans for Equality members cheered and jeered at a rally as they watched councilors discuss the issue and their votes on a large-screen TV at the …

“”I don’t want my vote to be construed as support, because I really don’t support that, the same way that I wouldn’t support a group of, say, pedophiles who wanted to assemble. I would not vote yes on that either, [or] men who beat up their wives. Anything like that.” – Oklahoma City councilman Brian Walters, explaining why he voted …

Speaking to Bryan Fischer on the American Family Association’s radio program, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) claimed that American soldiers would not fight to defend openly gay fellow soldiers. And therefore, we cannot allow the appointment of Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court.

Crooks And Liars tips us to a controversy in suburban Oklahoma City, where parishioners at a Catholic church are swelling in anger over a seemingly very well hung Jesus. Critics of the crucifix take issue with what appears to be a large penis covering Jesus’ abdominal area. Seeton said the portion of the crucifix in question is meant to be …