Steve Kern is the pastor at Olivett Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, a position that gives him a culturally bully pulpit to read all the dirty parts of his bible and blame gay people for making him do it.

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Kern is no stranger to controversy. She is known for her anti-gay rhetoric and walking into the state capital with a semi-automatic handgun stashed in her purse. Kern is probably best known for her comparison of homosexuality to toe cancer, and her repeated claims that homosexuals are a greater threat to our nation than terrorism. Now she has ignited controversy once again with a document that blames America’s current economic crisis on “our greater national moral crisis.”

The proclamation notes that President Obama scaled back the National Day of Prayer events but signed a proclamation declaring June as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month. The Morality Proclamation laments the president’s disregard for “the biblical admonitions to live clean and pure lives by proclaiming an entire month to an immoral behavior.” The proclamation calls for God to grant a “national awakening of righteousness and Christian renewal as we repent of our great sin.”

It seems clear Sally Kern is on a mission to force her Christian right-wing ultra Conservative views on the rest of the world. More than that, she is using her position as an Oklahoma State Representative to do it.

Kern is a religious bigot. Her overt homophobia is nothing short of evil. To suggest some sort of moral equivalence between same sex marriage and sex trafficking is simply outrageous. Kern is the paradigmatic Christian Conservative, an ugly, ignorant, bigot driven by superstitious non-sense.

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“I started praying about whether or not the Lord wanted me to run,” Kern said, according to a report in the Norman Transcript. “And the more I prayed, the more I felt He did…And so here I am, and I’m not the typical legislator. The Lord showed me right off the bat that I’m not supposed to be. As a matter of fact, my Lord made it very clear to me that I am a cultural warrior. And you know I tried to say ‘no’ to that, too, ’cause that’s pretty hard. But, anyway, that’s where I am.”

When Religious Right types say “God told me to do this or that,” I immediately get wary. Usually the thing God told them to do is take away someone else’s rights. But in this case, it seems God’s judgment is just plain poor. Why did He tap Kern – a woman who is, I must be kind here, rather ill-informed?

Consider what Kern told her audience: According to the Transcript, she asserted that John Adams, James Madison and Thomas Jefferson believed there was a “true” religion that formed the basis for our country and it was her fundamentalist version of Christianity.

“When we have teachers and professors say to our students that our founding fathers were atheists or deists, how can we answer that when we don’t even know who they were?” Kern asked. “When you study them and read what they had to say, approximately 95 percent of them were Christian, of the Christian religion, professing Jesus Christ as their savior. True freedom comes from knowing God your creator.”

Read more of this at blog.au.org, or read more about Sally Kern at gayagenda.com.