Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahomophobia!

Apologies to Doctor Doom.

So there's regular, everyday real life homophobia and then there's out there, 'did they really just say that?' homophobia. It's the difference between the guy that breaks in and steals your TV and the super villain who extorts trillions from the U.N. with a weather control device. Well, Oklahoma State Legislator Sally Kern is the Doctor Doom of Homophobia. Check out this cartoonishly hateful crap she spewed into the atmosphere:

She's kind of a hate-filled Republican
Sea-Hag. What? She said far worse.

"In the last 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, adults too, but especially our young people are bombarded at school, in movies, in music, on TV, in the mall, in magazines, they're bombarded with 'homosexuality is normal and natural.'"

-Sally Kern, Oklahoma State Legislator 

and terrible person.

To sum up: gay people=AIDS and are 120 (math!) times worse than terrorism. Can you believe that? This is coming from a woman who lives in Oklahoma, which, if I know my history, is a state named after a musical. What could possibly be gayer than that?

The answer is nothing. Nothing is gayer than Oklahoma.
Oh, and for the record, chaps, by definition, are ass-less. 

This line of rabid-foam nut-jobery was in defense of a 2008 rant in which she suggested that recognizing that gay people existed and should be treated equally would lead to the end of our civilization:

"If only we'd been shittier to gays
none of this would've happened..."

-Bleak Future Guy

"Studies show no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than a few decades. So it's the death knell of this country."

-Sally Kern. 

And yes, she still has a job. 

Surely she was censured for this by the Republican party, right? Yeah, no. The Oklahoma State Legislature did smack her down for railing against black people and women and that's something, but I guess it's open season on gays. Also, by 'studies' I assume she means the voices.

It's a shame the people of Atlantis didn't have access to "studies."
We could have learned much from the Mer-folk.

How's it feel Sally?

How in the 21st century can anyone this crazy/stupid/hateful get voted into any office anywhere? Everyone is entitled to their opinions, I know, but is her bullshit even an opinion or is it just ignorant ravings? Do we really have to pretend hate-speech is a valid point of view? You know, I can have a conversation with someone who disagrees with me about gun control or taxes or which Star Wars prequel sucked the most, but people like Sally Kern are on a whole 'nother planet. How are we supposed to get over our differences and get along when people like Sally compare equal rights to the apocalypse (or gaypocalypse as it were)?

It's a close call but the answer is Episode II. Why? Well:

1) They should have known better after the first one.

2) At least Episode III was the last one.

3) Darth Vader spends 10 minutes complaining about how sand chafes him.