OZYMANDIAS

(The following is the text of an e-mail that was sent March 21, 2008 to Oklahoma legislator Sally Kern, a former public-school teacher, whose anti-homosexual rant was plastered on "YouTube" and provoked this missive.)

Dear Ms. Kern:

I listened to (at least a portion of) what was represented as your speech about the creeping "homosexual agenda" that you allege will destroy our nation because of its disregard for what you cite as "God's Word."
You don't reveal where "God's Word" is cited, presumably in the Bible, presumably because you consider yourself a believing Christian.

You further say that "studies show" that no society that "totally embraces" homosexuality has lasted more than a few decades.
You do not specifically attribute the "studies" to which you refer. You don't define what you mean by "total embrace."

Citing your experience as a public-school teacher, you assert that one of the main objectives of the "homosexual agenda" is to "recruit" children as young as 2 years old into the movement. You obviously imply that the point is to convert those children into becoming homosexuals, which disregards most of the known scientific information that homosexuality is not a "learned" attribute, although tolerance and respect for homosexuals' liberty is.

You equate homosexuality with cancer and terrorism and Islam. I am sure Muslims are glad to know your real attitude about their religion. Like many self-annointed pious Pharisee/Christians, I am sure your disdain for non-Christian religion allows you to feel superior. Whatever heaven you wind up in after death I hope I am not there with you. I would hate to have to spend eternity with a bigot like I think you are.

You alternate in that part that I heard between what is the nature of your opinion to what you "know" to be "fact." You claim to not be "anti-homosexual," but you asserted that merely making this public statement puts your life or health "in jeopardy," as if the homo's will put out a contract on you or something similar.

I think you are a liar.

I think you are a bigot.

I think you know that you are lying and are a bigot.

I think you don't care.

But, it makes no difference anyway. You made the statement, and you were apparently cheered by some of your Republican colleagues for doing so. That says a lot more about you and your Republican colleagues than you can possibly imagine, and it ain't pretty, either.

I doubt, however, that you care what the opinions of people like me are, but you should know that your comments have been widely disseminated as far away as Virginia, at least.

How does it feel to be so (in)famous for such remarks? I wonder.
How do you sleep with yourself at night? How does any husband or girlfriend you might have?

I am also really curious as to how so many professed Christians can be so hateful as you are. I am curious as to how you can seize on something you may (or may not) have actually read in the Bible somewhere and then deem yourself one of the earthly enforcers of what you claim to be "God's Word," making life as difficult and as unhappy for homosexuals and their families as you possibly can while wrapping yourself in the American flag, grasping the Bible in your paw, and piously declaring that you are not a homophobic bigot. That is hubris worthy of Bill Clinton or Eliot Spitzer.

Thank goodness you are no longer corrupting the fertile minds of public-school children as their warped, bigoted teacher, seemingly spreading hate and lies misrepresented as "fact" like the "facts" you cite without attribution.

You are a "piece of work," Ms. Kern, as some folks hereabouts say.

You really are.

You may be fretting about which societies get to last more than a "few decades," so I presume you mean that if America cracks down on the "queers," then we will last a long time. I think that is what you mean. Actually, I'd rather be dead than to have to honor you as one of our leaders.

Take a look at the poem, "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley (see below) given that you are so concerned about societal survival. If you can even read anything other than what some half-wit Bible-thumper regurgitates to you, you may find it instructive.

Ozymandias

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

	I met a traveller from an antique land,
	Who said--"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
	Stand in the desart....Near them, on the sand,
	Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
5	And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
	Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
	Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
	The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
	And on the pedestal, these words appear:
	My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
	Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
	Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
	Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
	The lone and level sands stretch far away."