Protesters Seek Kern Apology; She's Not There

Protesters gathered today at the Capitol to ask Rep. Sally Kern to apologize for her recent remarks about homosexuality. Kern was not at the Capitol during the protest.

One of the organizers of the event was Oklahoma City Democrat James Nimmo, a homosexual activist who last August posted a message on a Democrat forum lamenting Republican Senator Jim Inhofe's escape from harm when a plane on which he and other members of Congress were passengers was fired on over Iraq.

The Rev. Jim Shields, a retired United Methodist minister who lives in Kern's district that covers parts of west Oklahoma City and Bethany, called on the Republican legislator to hold meetings in the district to talk with gays and Muslims.

If Kern doesn't do those things, then she should resign, said the Rev. Loyce Newton-Edwards, assistant pastor of the Open Arms United Church of Christ and president of the Oklahoma City chapter of PFLAG, Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays.

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