So you think Ohio has wingnuts?
Submitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Thu, 07/02/2009 - 5:45pm.
Some things are just too delicious not to share. This one's coming from the state in the union that has perhaps the highest per capta quota of the Crazy: Oklahoma. (A blog — I forget which one — took a poll a few years ago to learn which Senate delegation its readers thought was the worst. It had to disqualify Oklahoma because Inhofe and Coburn were swamping other deserving states).
You may have heard the name "Sally Kern" float by a few months ago when, back in March, she said this:
"Studies show no society that has totally embraced homosexuality has lasted more than a few decades. It is not a lifestyle that is good for this nation … They are going after our young children, as young as two years of age, to try to teach them that the homosexual lifestyle is an acceptable lifestyle. This stuff is deadly and it's spreading and it will destroy our young people, it will destroy this nation."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFxk7glmMbo
OK, maybe you were trying to forget that.
But, as congresspersons like Minnesota's Michele Bachmann and Ohio's own Jean "Scrunchie" Schmidt have shown, it's hard to keep the Crazy quiet.
It seems Kern has now located the true source of the economic woes the country is facing: “debauchery.” “We believe our economic woes are consequences of our greater national moral crisis,” states the resolution she has introduced in the Oklahoma state legislature.
And since Kern sports an “R” after her name, you won’t be surprised to learn that she’s not talking about Nevada Sen. John Ensign’s home-wrecking adultery or South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford’s spectacular Argentine flameout. She’s talking about President Obama’s recognition of Gay Pride Month and his failure to hold a public National Day of Prayer service in the White House.
The whole resolution is here if you think you can stomach a lot of holy rolling, sanctimonious prattling and historical ignorance about the religious intentions of our founding fathers:
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/06/30/kern-proclamation-morality/
