Oklahoma lawmaker Sally Kern last week defended her anti-gay screed and failed to meet with PFLAG demonstrators. (Photo courtesy of www.okhouse.gov)
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Friday, March 28, 2008
Re: “Kern stands by her anti-gay remarks, cites faith” (news, March 21)
It’s the God-loving Christians that have always promoted hate, discrimination and even murder all in the name of “God.”
How convenient to hide behind God-ordained hate, murder, discrimination, racism, sexism and a host of other “isms” to defend such a disgusting and splintering position as that of Kern. Remember when mixed-race marriages were considered wrong by the church? It wasn’t that long ago. Throughout history, religion has been used to sanction a host of very ugly deeds. For this woman to get up and say that gay people are more threatening to society than terrorists is disturbing and scary. Not because she alone thinks it, but because there are people who support her and believe it. But really, I thought our current president used that hot button to get in the White House, isn’t it a little passé now?
Re: “Dean slams Blade’s DNC coverage” (news, March 21)
I find it extremely curious that Donald Hitchcock waited 11 months to file a lawsuit. Howard Dean is an honorable man. The DNC may be jerks but what’s the point of this lawsuit?
One of the reasons the Democrats are treating queer folks (and the Blade) so poorly is because of that “most loyal party constituency” label. Howard Dean knows, through 20 years of elections, that gay people will happily take crap from the Democrats and come back for more. So why not dish out a little himself? Sadly, he has nothing to lose — LGBT voters will keep sending money and votes to him no matter what. Gay Democrats, unfortunately, don’t seem to demand real accountability from their party.
Why is it that every time Dean tries to win the White House, either for himself or someone else, that he starts strong with gay voters, then tosses us overboard? Gays? What gays? I don’t see any gays around here. Oh, those gays. Well we are just humoring them, they don’t really have any influence. I know they are loud and bitchy, and that gay marriage thing still creeps me out, but what can I do? They cough up some pretty big bucks and my job is to win elections.
Howard Dean can marginalize gays if he wants — we never really do anything but whine about it and then vote Democratic anyway. But the DNC cannot alienate black voters. We have reached the point that if it’s anybody but Obama in November, blacks will stay home. Black churches are their safe place. Black preachers pick them back up every Sunday after a week of being kicked around and held down by the system, prejudice, poverty, you name it. What gets said from the pulpit is sacred. It is cheered; it is revered. It’s not that the Clinton campaign didn’t know sooner, they knew but they couldn’t use it. They actually understood that the collateral damage to Hillary was far worse than the direct hit on Obama. If black voters, after being pulled off the sidelines by Obama, are disenfranchised on the way to her winning the nomination, she knows that she cannot put together a winning formula without them. If this Wright thing derails Obama, then we will wake up on Nov. 9 to President-elect McCain. Howard Dean wants to win, he doesn’t care who he wins with.
Re: “Obama pastor backs gay rights” (news, March 21)
Can someone please tell me what it was Rev. Wright said that white people considered racist? Unless someone can specifically point out a racist statement, then the attack that the majority of white people made on this man (including the media) is racist itself.
The statement Rev. Wright made on foreign policy as it related to the Sept. 11 attacks was not a racist statement. Obviously, the attack was made on the majority of white people at the twin towers, so where is the racism?
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