US Constitution, Just a piece of paper and selectively upheld Options

[Comptine]

Oklahoma Representative Sally Kern recently made very homophobic comments which she adamantly refuses to apologize for.

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Highlights of her speech:

• The homosexual agenda is destroying this nation
• Not everybody’s lifestyle is equal. Just like not all religions are equal
• I honestly think [homosexuality] the biggest threat, even in our nation. Even more so than terrorists, or Islam, okay.
• I’m not anti, I’m not gay-bashing, but according to God’s word that is not the right kind of lifestyle. It has deadly consequences for those people involved in it.
• They’re going after our young children, as young as 2 year of age, to try to teach them that the homosexual lifestyle is an acceptable lifestyle.
• Gays are infiltrating city capitals [...] controlled by gays.
• This stuff is deadly and it’s spreading and it will destroy our young people and it will destroy this nation.

Does everyone find it disturbing that someone picked to represent the US constitution spews such hateful and discriminatory words? She's actively calling for people to treat a part of society as inferior, calling to exclude them from public office, calling them worse than terrorism (you know, that thing that KILLED millions of people?).

What happened to equality? What happened to:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

What happened to learning that "separate but equal" is not really equal?

Do you think people who are elected to represent our Constitution are allowed to say such discriminatory words? Obviously, Kern would only uphold the Constitution for people who she deems fit her beliefs and the Bible's words. Does that make her unfit for her position?

[Comptine]

What does interracial marriages have to do with homosexual marriages? Because what they say about homosexual marriages is the same thing they said about interracial marriages. Why a black and white couple don't deserve to get married - it's unnature, they don't belong together, it's against religion, law, etc. Black and white couples will make dumb/unhealthy babies. They made every excuse under the sun to ban interracial marriages.

The same excuses essentially that people use for homosexual marriages.

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I know that the majority of the people who voted for Kern would agree with her ideals but what she essentially saying is preaching discrimination. At the very basis, she wants to deny a group of Americans certain rights.

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What does interracial marriages have to do with homosexual marriages? Because what they say about homosexual marriages is the same thing they said about interracial marriages. Why a black and white couple don't deserve to get married - it's unnature, they don't belong together, it's against religion, law, etc. Black and white couples will make dumb/unhealthy babies. They made every excuse under the sun to ban interracial marriages.

The same excuses essentially that people use for homosexual marriages.

/off topic

I know that the majority of the people who voted for Kern would agree with her ideals but what she essentially saying is preaching discrimination. At the very basis, she wants to deny a group of Americans certain rights.

Ok, I'm a little confused. Is this topic supposed to be debating the proper way representatives of the constitution act, or her actual remarks upon the homosexual community?

[Comptine]

Ok, I'm a little confused. Is this topic supposed to be debating the proper way representatives of the constitution act, or her actual remarks upon the homosexual community?

debating the proper way representatives of the constitution act

it got sidetracked.