Tag: Sally Kern
200,000 E-mails Speaking Out Against Sally Kern Met with Silence from Oklahoma Leaders
Human Rights Campaign (HRC) members and supports have generated 200,000 emails to Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin and state legislative leaders in the past day, calling on them to speak out against State Rep. Sally Kern’s dangerous anti-LGBT remarks.
Oklahoma legislator says homosexuality is bigger threat than terrorism
The Human Rights Campaign (HRC) – America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) civil rights organisation – is calling on Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin and the state’s top lawmakers to denounce dangerous anti-gay remarks State Sen. Sally Kern recently made while promoting her new book. In an interview, Kern said young people learn that homosexuality is “normal and natural” because they’re “bombarded” with it every day.
GLAAD Joins Chorus of Fair-Minded Americans Demanding Sally Kern’s Resignation
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), America’s lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) media advocacy and anti-defamation organisation, today joined the state chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), the Oklahoma Democratic Party and the Oklahoma chapter of the Council of American-Islamic Relations in calling for the resignation of Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern in light of her history of attacks on LGBT Americans and her suggestions on Wednesday that African Americans and women don’t ‘work as hard,’ while speaking on the floor of the Oklahoma House of Representatives.