Hearing all of these radically conservative pundits wax on about how gay people are against nature (false), against the Bible (A. who cares? and B. so is everything from planting two crops together to doing anything on the Sabbath), and basically immoral examples for the children (um, hello, look at so many of their straight married parents; can any of us really cast stones?) is getting really, really old. Honestly, I admire the restraint the gay community has; by now, I would have probably gone postal on the entire system, particularly those who claimed to be ardent allies and have failed to demonstrate their actual commitment to gay rights.

Today I read that Sally Kern was busy flapping her jaws about something stupid that she shouldn’t even care about yet again. You remember Kern, the anti-feminist, anti-gay, anti-anything-other-than-1950s-lifestyles lawmaker from Oklahoma (isn’t that scary, that such a person makes laws for others to adhere to?). Oh, you don’t? Yeah, she’s vague to me as well—that’s probably because I don’t live in Oklahoma and could care less about her and what she thinks, just as she could care less about what other people think or do in their own lives, too.

In her latest book, The Stoning of Sally Kern (yeah, a little dramatic there, Sally; maybe you should talk to women in the Middle East about what it’s really like to be stoned to death), she apparently blathers on further than anyone could ever care to read about how if we legalize gay marriage, men will start to marry animals, too. This is extremely offensive to basically any human being, but especially gay people, as it simply indicates that they’re not far off from, say, cows or donkeys. Kern might want to watch her words if she wants a single gay voter—at least thirteen percent of the population, Ms. Kern, that you are alienating here, plus their allies—to even consider her bigot head as an elected official.

She makes statements that are hateful and hurtful, saying that gays aren’t born gay, that they “succumb to temptation,” and that they are an abomination to God. And here I thought that Jesus said not to judge, and that God loves all of His children?

She laughably insists that all Americans have equal rights under the Constitution and that this argument has nothing to do with rights, but with not accepting behavior that she claims that God thinks is wrong. Because, you know, she did have that stint as God’s secretary back in 876 BC and he totally confided that to her, along with His particular affinity for white chocolate truffles.

Sally, I think at least half of America—from women to gays, immigrants to any person of color, to even white men these days—would argue with you about the Constitution providing equal rights to all. That’s just not true. But nice job rationalizing the world to help you and your comatose conscience feel better about discriminating against an enormous number of people just because of your own opinion of them. Citizens of the future will look at you, along with all other people who actively worked to prohibit gays from having equal rights (not only being bigots, bad examples for our children, and ruining the lives of thousands of people—but wasting tax dollars on it all when we have so much else to worry about too, yay!), and name you one of the most despicable people among us. You will be remembered as a bully and a tyrant, and while that gives me a small amount of satisfaction, it in no way makes up for the bigotry with which you make laws.

Why not just worry about yourself and your own damn sex life, Ms. Kern?