Oklahoma Representative Sally Kern, who on more than one occasion has compared gays to terrorists, has filed three offensive bills targeting gays in the state.
The “Preservation and Sovereignty of Marriage Act” would bar the use of taxpayer dollars or government salaries for “the licensing or support of same-sex marriage. Under the law, no local or state employee could “officially recognize, grant or enforce a same-sex marriage license and continue to receive a salary, pension or other employee benefit.”
Tulsa World reports:
“No employee of this state and no employee of any local governmental entity shall officially recognize, grant or enforce a same-sex marriage license and continue to receive a salary, pension or other employee benefit at the expense of taxpayers of this state,” the measure says. “No taxes or public funds of this state shall be spent enforcing any court order requiring the issuance or recognition of a same-sex marriage license.”
A second bill, the heinously titled “Freedom to Obtain Conversion Therapy Act” gives parents the right to seek help to “cure” their gay kids.
Says the bill:
“The people of this state have the right to seek and obtain counseling or conversion therapy from a mental health provider in order to control or end any unwanted sexual attraction, and no state agency shall infringe upon that right,” the bill says. “Parents may obtain such counseling or therapy for their children under eighteen (18) years of age without interference by the state.”
A third bill, House Bill 1597, would allow any Oklahoma business to refuse service to an LGBT person, or group, similar to the bill that failed last year in Arizona because businesses would not have it..
Kern is currently unavailable for comment, according to Tulsa World, because she's celebrating a wedding anniversary this week.
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