Many of you have heard the words of Oklahoma state legislator Sally Kern, where she said that homosexuals are more dangerous to America than terrorists (to be fair, she is not the only person to have said this). There are two important points that I want to make about this statement.
The first is the most obvious one: she is categorically wrong. Terrorists killed 168 people in the Oklahoma City Federal Building. Terrorists are responsible for bringing down a plane over Lockerbie, Scotland. Terrorists are responsible for well over 3,000 deaths in a single day here in the United States. Can anyone honestly say that the LGBT community has perpetrated such grievous wrongs? Of course not.
The second thing I want to point out is the hypocrisy. For years upon years, members of the LGBT community, even/especially young children, have been subjected to countless instances of intimidation, malicious name-calling, threats, acts of violence, bullying, and even murder in cold blood. All of this merely because we are who we are. All of this because ignorant and intolerant people feel it is there place to do these things to a people that they "don't agree" with, many (supposedly) in the name of religion.
So let me ask you this: who are the real terrorists again?
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