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victoryThis is making the rounds on some of the LGBT/Feminist blogs out there but I felt like I had to post about it as well. Recently, an Oklahoma State legislator made some remarks to a small gathering of her supporters. Someone recorded it and now it's everywhere. In this speech, she states that homosexuality is more of a threat to America than terrorism or Islam. Also, she states that schools are indoctrinating children as young as two to think that it's ok to be gay.I have to say that I'm not shocked at all by her comments because I have family members who believe these things. However, what's interesting to me is that she will only say these things behind closed doors. She even admits that to this audience. There's an underground hatred here that gets hidden for the sake of political correctness. There may be people out there who are voting for her because they know she thinks this way and they love it. But my guess is that there are also a lot of people who identify as conservative who would never, ever say that homosexuality is more of a threat to this country than terrorism and who would never want their elected officials worrying more about gay people than terrorism. That's why these things can't get out too far - it could lose you some of those independent votes.If you want to write Sally Kern a letter telling her how you feel about her words, you can go to The Victory Fund.Here's the recording!