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[Ungodly]

Once again the extremely Jesus state of Oklahoma brings us news and entertainment, both in the same item. It seems that for Oklahomans the 2008 warning sounded by Sally Kern is still resonating in their lizard brain fear nodules.

The new bill under consideration would re-instate DADT for the Oklahoma National Guard, thus banning gay guardsmen. But this would put Oklahoma at odds with Big Brother in Washington and pose the risk of Oklahoma losing $300 million in federal subsidies for the National Guard.

Now of course Oklahoma has suffered the horror of a terrorist attack already, a Christian fanatic once blew up the federal office building in Oklahoma City. So if the state loses its $300 million for the National Guard obviously the citizens of Oklahoma will face an increased risk of terror attacks. Therefore, clearly, the Oklahoma Legislature is a greater threat than terrorists.

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Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern once called gays a bigger to America threat than terrorists, and Oklahoma certainly wouldn’t want terrorists in its National Guard. So according to Kern’s logic, that must mean the state shouldn’t allow gays and lesbians in its National Guard, either.

In January, State Rep. Mike Reynolds introduced a bill that would allow anyone eligible to serve in the military on Jan. 1, 2009 — 20 days before Barack Obama was inaugurated as president — to serve in the Oklahoma National Guard.

(source)

If Oklahoma really loves Jesus I'm sure this bill will become law.

[Great Ape]

Stupid bill really. If it passed, Oklahoma would just be shooting itself in the foot. Seems people like Sally Kern have entirely too much influence in Oklahoma politics.

I agree with John Aravosis of AmericaBlog. He stated, "call their bluff and let them hang themselves".

John Aravosis said:

And supposedly the federal government may have to cut of hundreds of millions of dollars of state National Guard funds if that happens.

Good.

Cut em off.

Nothing would make me happier than to watch an already not very rich state grow even more impoverished because of its own bigotry. And here's a two-fer. Next time there's a natural disaster in Oklahoma, who are they gonna call if they don't have a National Guard in place?

Seriously. Maybe it's just time we let the southern bigots metaphorically hang themselves by their own bigotry. Virginia (surprise) tried the same thing last year and failed.

No I don't want people discriminating against gays. But at some point, it's tempting to let the south (and near-south ilk) go as backwards as they wants to go. If Oklahoma bigots want to waste $300 million that they don't have call their bluff. Then let the Republicans explain to Oklahomans why they have no more money for vital state services.

It seems there is an update to the article. It states:

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UPDATE: Oklahoma Sen. Al McAffrey reports that the bill has been sent to a different committee where it will die.

“The bill reinstating Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell in the Oklahoma National Guard is dead!” McAffrey wrote. “It was pulled from the Veterans Committee and reassigned to the Rules Committee, where the Chairman will not hear the bill. It’s good for our state that this bad piece of legislation will not proceed.”

Money talks and bullshit walks.

Edited by Great Ape, 21 February 2012 - 10:23 AM.

[Ungodly]

At least the Republicans demonstrated the sincerity of their commitment to bigotry by introducing the idea. That willingness to sacrifice in order to protect the Sanctity of Bigotry should get them lots of cred with Christian voters.

Them Oklahoma Christians just gots to have their smug, self righteous holiness.

Praise Jeebus!

[nogodbutdog]

It's almost a pity, actually. Small-government advocates haven't had a chance to prove commitment to their ideals since the Murrah building was bombed. It probably would have been inspirational to the folks to tough out the next super tornado without big government stepping in to manage Oklahoma's affairs. Besides, $300 million is a nice chunk of change; the rest of us would have had almost enough left over to construct another Bridge To Nowhere.

[Cousin Ricky]

nogodbutdog, on 21 February 2012 - 03:57 PM, said:

Besides, $300 million is a nice chunk of change; the rest of us would have had almost enough left over to construct another Bridge To Nowhere.

You mean like ours?

[Ungodly]

Cousin Ricky, on 21 February 2012 - 05:49 PM, said:

You mean like ours?

That's some mighty fine nowhere bridge!

[nogodbutdog]

Yours is even better, since it doubles as a Bridge From Nowhere. And with a $300M federal grant, I bet you could build a half dozen of them!

[Great Ape]

Let's not forget Sarah Palin's bridge to nowhere.



Palin backed 'bridge to nowhere' in 2006

Edited by Great Ape, 22 February 2012 - 06:38 AM.