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Here is my letter to Sally, which I sent Monday evening. I don't expect a response as I've heard that she's received over 11,000 e-mails to her work account and a few more thousand to her home account. She hasn't uttered a word to the press since Monday and the Speaker of the House isn't going to punish her for her remarks. As a society, we cannot keep quiet about this. We need to continue with letters, rallies, petitions, etc. to let our government know that this kind of speech is completly unacceptable.

Dear Sally--

I’ve been thinking long and hard about how to respond to your extremely hurtful and hateful remarks.

After watching your second interview on TV and reading your press release, I have several comments to make.

How can you continue to say that what you said was not hate speech? You said that homosexuality is a bigger threat to this country than terrorism and Islam. Acts of terrorism are acts of hate and you said that a segment of this population is a greater threat than terrorism. HOW IS THAT NOT HATE?

How can you say that "not everyone’s lifestyles are equal" and mean it to be okay? Isn’t this America, where ALL PEOPLE ARE CREATED EQUALLY? Right now, gay people ARE NOT treated equally as we can be discriminated against in terms of jobs and housing, not to mention marriage. As an elected lawmaker, one would think and expect that you would be pro-equality for all Americans.

Yes, I agree that homosexuality can have "deadly consequences" but I’m willing to be that we don’t mean the same deadly consequences. Gays are often brutally attacked and even killed because of their sexual orientation. Just last year, a gay man was murdered in Oklahoma City because he was gay. You like to refer to the bible about homosexuality but I didn’t hear you utter one word about this murder being against biblical teachings.

I watched you on the news tonight and one could tell that you were lying through your teeth when asked about your son’s sexual orientation (and we know what the bible says about lying--it’s one of the Ten Commandments (and yet there’s no commandment that says, "Thou shalt not be homosexual"))--your body language spoke volumes, along with the fact that you said that your son never said anything to your husband or his brother--you didn’t say he didn’t say anything to you, which is what I would have expected to come out of your mouth immediately if he hadn’t said anything to you. Not to mention what I found on oscn.net as doing a search revealed a Jesse Kern who was arrested for oral sodomy. I wondered where your unusual focus on gays and lesbians came from and I had initially thought you were a closeted lesbian (of course that could still be a possibility) but then when I learned that you have a gay son, it started making sense.

What doesn’t make sense is how you and your husband could treat your son the way that you did. Many are saying that you drove him out of the state (some have used the word, "banned"). What kind of mother would do that to her own child and still call herself a Christian?

What’s really disturbing is that you say all of these things in the name of Jesus but yet you forget that Jesus broke bread with the man who turned Him over to be crucified. If you’re the Christian that you claim to be, shouldn’t you be doing the same? To borrow a line from the song "If We Are the Body" by Casting Crowns, "Jesus paid much too high a price for us to pick and choose who should come." What’s really disturbing is that you forget to focus on the BIG message of the bible--LOVE.

Go back and reread your bible--slowly and for comprehension. Jesus SAID NOTHING about homosexuality and embraced the very types of people you bible-beaters like to throw your bible at. If He were here today, guess who He’d be breaking bread with? The very types of people you throw your bible at--the gays and lesbians.

The Christian thing to do is to apologize. I pray that someday you truly know of God’s love as your actions and words indicate that you don’t.

Sincerely,

Molly
Columnist for okclesbian.com

Until next time.