Anti-gay Oklahoma Rep. Sally Kern retains legal counsel

[meegbear]

In an escalating public battle over anti-gay comments made at a secretly taped speech, the conservative Thomas More Law Center of Ann Arbor, Michigan announced on Wednesday that it has agreed to represent Oklahoma Rep. Sally Kern in any legal cases arising from the controversy.

"Representative Kern expressed her concern that the homosexual agenda was destroying our nation, and that young school children were being indoctrinated into believing that the homosexual 'life style' is normal," said a Thomas More Law Center news release on Wednesday. "Her comments caused some of the nation’s largest homosexual groups to target her for political annihilation."

"Representative Kern will not back down, regardless of the attempted hate-mongering intimidation by these national homosexual advocacy groups," added the firm's President and Chief Counsel Richard Thompson of the "courageous Christian woman." "Their actions are right out of a play-book developed by radical homosexual activists in the 1980s to manipulate and intimidate the majority of Americans into accepting the normalcy of the homosexual life style. (sic)"

An IRS-designated 501(c)(3) organization, Thomas More runs on individual, corporate and foundation donations and does not charge for its services. Its aim is to "(defend and promote) the religious freedom of Christians, time-honored family values, and the sanctity of human life through education, litigation, and related activities."

On Tuesday, about 300 people rallied outside Oklahoma's state capitol to protest Kern's statements and demand an apology. The crowd included LGBT advocates seeking to meet with the lawmaker, who was personally invited to the rally by Oklahoma City resident and retired United Methodist minister Rev. Jim Shields, joined by Rev. Loyce Newton-Edwards of the United Church of Christ, also president of Oklahoma City's PFLAG chapter.

"I'd have no problem meeting with ('two or three' representatives of the gay community) next week when I have my lawyer," Kern told Tulsa World on Tuesday.

Kern's comparisons of gays to cancer, charges of "indoctrination" and opining that gays posed a worse threat to the United States than international terrorism have garnered both praise and ire in the public square after the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund's "We're Listening" campaign brought it to light.

http://pageoneq.com/news/2008/Antigay_Oklahoma_Rep._Sally_Kern_la_0320.html

[tekisui]

1. She needs to be tossed to the dump. ASAP.

[xultar]

2. She needs to retain my foot up her ass.

[xchrom]

4. oh my -- wouldn't i pay money to see that. nt

[Zuiderelle]

3. "hate-mongering intimidation" Um... wait a sec, Sally is the hate-mongering intimidator, not us.

I love how they try to project their own evil back on those they oppress.

[Creideiki]

5. And here I thought Republicans hated lawyers

I'm still trying to wrap my brain around what they're there for. Are they ninja-bodyguard lawyers that are going to protect the poor woman as she attempts to go to her place of work? Maybe being protested until the end of her miserable little existence will give her some sympathy for others that are routinely protested by the RRRW nutcases at, say, clinics that provide abortions.

[mkultra]

6. As the duly appointed representative for Oklahoma,

Let me just say that Oklahoma would like to apologize for this crazy bat-shiat bitch.


Thanks

[blayne]

7. At least she seems a bit rattled about the whole thing.