Oklahoma rep. Sally Kern says gays are a national threat, worse than terrorism

Amidst the country’s reflection and remembrance of the 9/11 attacks, Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern has sparked outrage amongst the gay community in wake of her book tour in which she reinforced her attack on gays, explaining the LGBT community is worse than the act of terrorism.

Kern’s explains that her book titled, “The Stoning of Sally Kern: The Liberal Attack on Christian Conservatism and Why We Must Take a Stand,”  was written in response to the backlash she received in 2008 when at that time she also attacked the gay community with similar claptrap in a nationally released video. Kern had expressed that school children were being “indoctrinated” into the gay lifestyle, and that gays are more of  a threat than terrorists themselves, the Washington Post reports.

“[Gays] are the death knell, in this country. I honestly think it’s the biggest threat, even, that our nation has, even more so than terrorism, or Islam, which I think is a big threat,” Kern was recorded in her speech.

Now, in an interview with anti-gay activist Peter LaBarbera, Kern explained, “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?”

This is not the first time Kern has marginalized diverse groups. Kern was reprimanded earlier this year by the Oklahoma House when she said that African-American people “don’t work as hard” as white people.