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The Stoning of Sally Kern
This book is about Sally Kern, District 84 House of Representatives member from Oklahoma, and her desire to see America return to the conservative principles that guided the nation's founders. In January 2008, the pastor's wife and former high school teacher gave a speech to a Republican club in Oklahoma City explaining that the founding fathers believed Christian principles would lead to a civilized society, individual self-government, good citizens, the elevation of learning, and a cohesive value system. While explaining the fifth benefit, a cohesive value system, she told of a group of wealthy homosexual activists who threatened the nation's moral fabric by attempting to unseat seventy conservative politicians who opposed their agenda. Clips from the speech later were posted on YouTube, generating more than 2 million hits and leading to what she describes as a media \u0022stoning\u0022. That didn't stop her from winning re-election or from continuing her calls for America to return to the conservative principles that made it great. In this book she warns that there is danger ahead if social conservatives don't preserve the nation's foundations of morality, truth, and tolerance. She issues a cry for conservatives to stand for their freedom now before they no longer have the right to do so.
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First published July 5, 2011
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March 28, 2012
Some of you will recognize the writer's name. For some of you this may bring about a negative reaction, even an extreme reaction. That's what the book is about.
Sally Kern ran afoul of what has been referred to as extreme homosexual activists. Homosexual groups have said there are no extreme activist groups. I'll leave that to you. My point here is not to take a stand on that question. Nor do I plan to comment on my agreement with Ms. Kern on any of the points she makes in the book or the positions she takes...except for one.
When she took a stand against certain bills and political actions she was singled out for intense persecution. Not disagreement, not debate but virtual and postal attacks. A selection of parts of her statement were patched together and placed on the net. It got millions of hits.
She says that the speech was the result of having to cut the time allotted down and trying top cover all her notes. She said she wishes she'd said some things differently...even so, the actions taken against her were completely out of proportion. She and her family were threatened. A rumor was spread that her son was gay and that she had disowned him...not true. A rumor was spread that her husband (a pastor) had been a member of the KKK...not true. There were people listed in a gay organization and the KKK with name similar to her family's. Poor research? There was a concerted attempt to beat her in two elections (District 84 House of Representatives)...she was reelected.
Look, if you disagree with someone...if you are offended by what someone says argue. Show why what they have said is incorrect, spurious...wrong. Don't try to take away their right to free speech. Don't threaten.
To agree with someone is not necessarily to love them...to disagree with someone is not to hate them. Sally Kern hates no one. She simply has beliefs many disagree with.
The political "right" in America(and that term itself needs to be correctly understood) has come to be called conservative. The political left is usually called liberal (though I prefer "statist"). I've noticed that if a conservative comes on a talk show he or she disagrees with or a TV program that expresses ideas he or she finds offensive or just doesn't like, they change the channel or turn the radio or TV off. A liberal or statist in the same situation immediately demands censorship.
Whether you agree with Sally Kern or not what she and her family went through is what's un-American, not the fact that she expressed an idea some find unpalatable. Give the book a chance and please think as you read it.
Sally Kern ran afoul of what has been referred to as extreme homosexual activists. Homosexual groups have said there are no extreme activist groups. I'll leave that to you. My point here is not to take a stand on that question. Nor do I plan to comment on my agreement with Ms. Kern on any of the points she makes in the book or the positions she takes...except for one.
When she took a stand against certain bills and political actions she was singled out for intense persecution. Not disagreement, not debate but virtual and postal attacks. A selection of parts of her statement were patched together and placed on the net. It got millions of hits.
She says that the speech was the result of having to cut the time allotted down and trying top cover all her notes. She said she wishes she'd said some things differently...even so, the actions taken against her were completely out of proportion. She and her family were threatened. A rumor was spread that her son was gay and that she had disowned him...not true. A rumor was spread that her husband (a pastor) had been a member of the KKK...not true. There were people listed in a gay organization and the KKK with name similar to her family's. Poor research? There was a concerted attempt to beat her in two elections (District 84 House of Representatives)...she was reelected.
Look, if you disagree with someone...if you are offended by what someone says argue. Show why what they have said is incorrect, spurious...wrong. Don't try to take away their right to free speech. Don't threaten.
To agree with someone is not necessarily to love them...to disagree with someone is not to hate them. Sally Kern hates no one. She simply has beliefs many disagree with.
The political "right" in America(and that term itself needs to be correctly understood) has come to be called conservative. The political left is usually called liberal (though I prefer "statist"). I've noticed that if a conservative comes on a talk show he or she disagrees with or a TV program that expresses ideas he or she finds offensive or just doesn't like, they change the channel or turn the radio or TV off. A liberal or statist in the same situation immediately demands censorship.
Whether you agree with Sally Kern or not what she and her family went through is what's un-American, not the fact that she expressed an idea some find unpalatable. Give the book a chance and please think as you read it.
November 17, 2011
Usually I don’t like to read books about politicians as it seems more of a way to glamorize themselves rather than to solve some problem or bring the Truth of God’s Word to light but this book was different and I read it in one day because it was that good! I have never heard of Sally Kern, which now seems odd, since I would have thought since she was in the spot light I would have heard something, but no. The love for God and His Son shows through in this book and it’s not something that Sally Kern is ashamed to admit and she must stand in the darkness of politics and let His light shine.
I have my opinions on women in office as well as Christians involved in politics but even with those opinions I still enjoyed reading this book and ‘listening’ to Sally relay what she’s gone through from the liberal and homosexual agenda. She echoed my feelings that we should, as Christians, love the homosexual but yet we can’t and shouldn’t condone sin – and this is what she has come under fire for. She also recognizes that the same people who want tolerance and acceptance will not accept or tolerate anyone who has an opposing viewpoint – especially if that viewpoint in Biblically based.
If you enjoy politics, women in power or just reading about people who stand up for our Lord in the public arena then this book will well suit you. As I said it’s a fast paced book and even with 3 children I managed to read it in one day – and that isn’t usually the case with non-fiction books which I need to carefully sift through.
I have my opinions on women in office as well as Christians involved in politics but even with those opinions I still enjoyed reading this book and ‘listening’ to Sally relay what she’s gone through from the liberal and homosexual agenda. She echoed my feelings that we should, as Christians, love the homosexual but yet we can’t and shouldn’t condone sin – and this is what she has come under fire for. She also recognizes that the same people who want tolerance and acceptance will not accept or tolerate anyone who has an opposing viewpoint – especially if that viewpoint in Biblically based.
If you enjoy politics, women in power or just reading about people who stand up for our Lord in the public arena then this book will well suit you. As I said it’s a fast paced book and even with 3 children I managed to read it in one day – and that isn’t usually the case with non-fiction books which I need to carefully sift through.
May 29, 2015
Fuck this circle-jerk echo chamber of a "book".
Few books deserve to be burned. This one does. For saying homosexuality is more dangerous than terrorism. For being anything but spiritual and hallucinating that god hates anyone or anything. For, in a nutshell, hate speech on every page.
Few books deserve to be burned. This one does. For saying homosexuality is more dangerous than terrorism. For being anything but spiritual and hallucinating that god hates anyone or anything. For, in a nutshell, hate speech on every page.
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