Rep. Sally Kern doesn't know what the hell she is talking about.

(TW: Homophobia, transphobia)

This nonsense from OK Rep. Sally Kern made me unusually pissed off, today. The idea that GLBT people are more dangerous than terrorists because "young people" deal with homosexuality every day is really weird. I seriously doubt that Sally Kern even deals with homosexuality every day, unless it's by choice because she can't mind her own business. But here's an idea for her--maybe she could take a walk in the shoes of someone who really does deal with being homosexual, lesbian, bisexual, trans* or queer on a daily basis, and then she might understand a little better why equating people just being themselves with terrorists is extremely inappropriate and ironic in the unfunny way--

Because then she would understand something about people who actually do deal on a daily basis with having their gender, humanity, personhood, privacy, and rights questioned on a regular basis. She would understand a little better what it might feel like to expect (not just experience, but come to expect) that feeling of being called "less-than", and the sometimes palpable threat of physical violence coming from bigots. If she could step into the place of a sexual minority, she would understand that being othered and discriminated against just for being was a kind of emotional terrorism (except for when it is an actual act of hate crime/terror itself)--and maybe, just maybe, she might bring herself to stop doing it.

Maybe she could bother educating herself before saying things so terribly uninformed.

And no, she is not either being stoned for what she says--how silly and self-pitying that sounds! Especially when one is merely being criticized for bigotry against people who in some parts of the world are literally still stoned--with actual stones.