(OKLAHOMA CITY) I’m sure the sham of appearing at the Capitol and giving the impression this is a legislative procedure is exactly what was intended when GOPer Sally Kern and Krew planned their morality proclamation ceremony on July 2 in Oklahoma City.

If she were interested in promoting only morality and not instead, introducing her personal religious restrictions, why isn’t she using her own church, Olivett Baptist, as her backdrop?

As always with the mentally unbalanced words and actions are morphed into absurd definitions and shapes. Lies to support other lies are always invented, regardless of how holy the intent of the lies is supposed to be.

She speaks of divorce as contributing to national decline. How short her memory is for anything except bible verses.

Kern’s patron saint, Ronald Reagan, was divorced, as is Newt Gingrich and Rumbaugh twice each. Sen. Vitter of LA likes diaper sex with paid escorts and Gov. Sandford of SC abandons his family and state duties to amorize in Argentina. Gov. Palin of AK can’t teach her eldest daughter to say simple words like, “No”.

When you don’t set yourself up on a high soap box in the first place and then mistake it for a psychiatrist’s office you don’t have to fall so inevitably far when you come up short in your own life.

Kern should spend more time looking at the fruit falling close to her family tree ( http://tinyurl.com/krahr9 ) before she tries to juice the private lives of others.

You are a brilliant tactician! I’m willing to market stoning kits for right wing christians–live your faith!

Well I see that every rule has an exception. While I generally follow Carlin’s adage about euphemistic language being bad for us humans, I will stipulate that seamus has found a use for it after all. Kernservative indeed.

Yep.

Rep. Sally Kern (K)

I like the ring of that.

I realised I have a potty mouth and/or keyboard. But this type of post seems to justify the use of said expression, possibly in the plural.

From now on, I’ll just use Kernservative in place of F_ _ _t_rd and you’ll know what I mean.

Man O’ man does that lady have crazy eyes.

I will give her this though, The bible does say divorce is an abomination and those dovorced should be stoned to death. I always wonder why gays don’t use this more to throw some crazy bible-based b.s. back at their critics. They’d get Newt, Rush and a whole lot of crazys.

The police raid in Ft. Worth is an outrage. Unfortunately there are racist and homophobic cops in a lot of places. Something that might have been swept under the rug a few years ago is now the focus of public outrage in the local papers and TV news. That’s a positive change.

Today an African American man occupies Henry Wade’s old office as the Dallas D A. He is opening old cases and working with the Innocence Project – 19 people have been released from prison as a result. Dallas County has a lesbian Latina sheriff – yes, you read that correctly.

More people moved to Texas last year than to any other state. More Fortune 500 companies are headquartered here than any other state. This is helping those of us who are working hard to turn Texas blue again. Come on down, y’all !

Thanks for being patient with this long post, Harry

Tis a pity you are correct, my only defense is working for a living. The bloody knuckles typically come from a hard days labor, building bridges and buildings and water treatment plants and roads and schools. Although there are many working class democrats, they have yet to figure out that elitist liberals have nothing but disdane for them as is shown by your comment.

Give me the common sense of the American working man or woman any day of the week.

I think Mr. Jefferson has a quote about this, but I havent time to look it up.

How much of this is taken out of context? Sure Patrick Henry may have said or written “This great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians”.

Did he also say in the same breath “Isn’t that a miracle? We created a Government that respects all faiths and imposes none.”

I bet you take the Bible out of context too…

BTW liberals* aren’t unhappy. The fact that we like to discuss the issues on the web is a sign that we’re conversant with the issues.

*I believe the poster I refer to meant to include all liberals, not just Dems. I’m an independent liberal (sometimes voting Democratic, sometimes Green and sometimes Libertarian). We all like to discuss the issues, rather than just taking our “ideas” directly from bloviating talk radio entertainers.

“Fresh Air from WHYY, July 1, 2009 · In the book The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, author Jeff Sharlet examines the power wielded by the secret Christian group known as The Family or The Fellowship.

Founded in 1935 in opposition to FDR’s New Deal, the right-wing fundamentalist religious group organizes prayer meetings for Congressmen, as well as the annual National Prayer Breakfast. The group also has an alleged connection to a house in Washington, D.C. known as C Street, which serves as a prayer house and residence for politicians like Governor Mark Sanford, Senator John Ensign and Senator Tom Coburn.

A religion expert and a journalist, Sharlet is a contributing editor for Harper’s and Rolling Stone. He is editor of The Revealer, a review of religion and the press.”

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106115324

Once they ‘invoke god’ in all of their variant doin’s, they can see how far that takes them.

Welcome to this blog. There are believers of many stripes, doubters, agnostics and atheists here. So add your voice some more.

Vince and Mike A.;

I just heard that Terry Gross is interviewing Jeff Sharlet on her program today concerning “The Family” and it’s connection to Gov. Sanford and others.

“dems seem to be the unhappiest people i’ve ever met.btw,i’m not a republican…. i have noticed that dems are always on the forums and message boards with an axe to grind about something that they can’t ever change(usually blaming republicans). what anger and stress must be present in their lives all the time.”

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I think you mean to say we’re the “most literate people I’ve ever met,” though, of course, we haven’t met you. Conservatives, who generally can’t handle proper syntax or sentence structure on their computers or anywhere else for that matter, are usually precluded from this activity due to the horrible scars on their hands. You see, dragging their knuckles on the ground so much tends to do this. Thanks for your prescient, though convoluted commentary on those you do not know.

I think you have a position and it is that of republican. Maybe you have been forced to listen repeatedly that everyone but republicans complain. Listen and listen good, Read the Newspaper(s) don’t listen to what someone else’s spin is on something. Make your own mind up. Its not that hard. Now if you are a hold over from Scientology then good day, your mind is already away.

Methinks Rep. Kern may have been hit in the head by a few 2×4s while hiding from one of the many tornadoes the LORD sends every year to punish Oklahoma for its sinful ways.
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I am thinking that maybe Quantum Physics came into play. Or Einstein’s theory of relativity or some other brand I cannot recall. Skate board to the face comes to mind.

whats a poor individual to do?

She has a right to her opinion, freedom of speech.
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Say what??????? How so???? She presumably took an Oath of Office to uphold the laws of the state of Oklahoma and the US. So if what she is proposing is against that Oath. Change it. Other wise she can and should be impeached for dereliction of duty.

Put Oklahoma in that special category with Texas as “places to avoid”. Thanks but no thanks. Ignorance? Check. Bigotry? Check. Closed-mindedness? Check. Visit there? Not a chance.

Mo Rage
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Texas can be a very fine place to visit. It can also be a good ideal to avoid Gay Bars in Ft Worth when the cops are doing sobriety checks in the bars.

Mo Rage

many people in the state have viewpoints that are extremely racist and homophobic, in their thinking, and religiously, very evangelical..sally kerns is representative of this kind of thinking..the state capitol is planning on erecting a large stone scupture, with the 10 commandments inscribed, on the front lawn of the capitol..

it’s a sad “state” of affairs here..i have lived here for only 2 years..moved here for financial reasons..if i had the money i would move from oklahoma in a heart beat..

TexHarry, them okies is much *harrier* than youns Texicans.

So why bring all the romance and rich flavor to an end with zero grace? Zero tolerance? Zero humanity? Zero hope? Are these Jesus-endorsed?

Sometimes I wish Gates, Buffet, and Soros would donate tons of laptops with free Internet hook-up to every qualifying Red State Republican. Truly, an investment in the future-even if most were used for target practice. After all, knowledge=Satan. And by qualify, I mean: Did it go for the Bush-Cheney dictatorship twice?

http://www.light-to-dark.com/neo_con_trifecta.html

I believe there’s a large, frustratingly slow motion epiphany happening right now, but after eight years of Unitary Execufascist occupation, and the accompanying effects of it’s economic model, it’s domestic control operation (Patriot & MCA Acts), and radically skewed wealth distribution with nary a bump of a Middle Class, I remain cautiously optimistic.

Mission accomplished on the Milt Friedman Gone Wildest preemption, thanks to the good folks in the Red States. Damn it, I couldn’t help myself. Imagine realizing you and your family were used to run a protections racket. Imagine the Redneck suddenly realizing that an unwanted intercourse spread over time is still getting stiffed.

http://www.light-to-dark.com/gonzo_or_justice.html

Both have a deep knowledge of the law, and know how to speak and write about their subjects clearly and penetratingly…and both have a sense of humor to go along with their law smarts.

Thanks Jonathan for this absurd example of this intersection of right-wing nuttery and far right Christianist beliefs—a toxic mix!

Could you please make the type in the Reply box a little bigger and bolder? I’m having real trouble reading what I’m typing…thanks.

No typo. You are now privy to Kern’s secret!

But the article could use some proofreading. You use “his” for Kern instead of “her.” Unimportant mistake in the long run, but a bit annoying.

“You may recall Kern from his viral video ranting about gays . . .”

It’s bad enough they get the logic an Biblical stuff all wrong — their savaging of history is just as bad, if not worse. They’re pledging to a false idea of scripture, a false vision of history, a false god.

And they have the gall to call Obama immoral?