The new mortal sins.

• Author: Clinton, Kate
• Position: Unplugged - Column

Now that everyone can shoot cell-phone or flip-cam videos and pop them on YouTube, maybe God, chief all-seeing enforcer of good behavior, can kick back and relax a bit. Maybe see some baseball.

Remember George Allen's "macaca" moment? This new citizen surveillance makes the Bush wiretapping seem like clothes-pinning onto a frayed string between tin cans.

Republican State Representative Sally Kern, from Oklahoma, was recently recorded at a district fundraiser explicating the homosexual agenda. In the audio recording, she sounds like Mr. Mackey, the South Park guidance counselor, who ends sentences with a nasal "m'kay?" As cutlery and dishes clank in the background, Ms. Kern tells her peacefully masticating listeners that homosexuality is a bigger threat than terrorism or Islam, which is pretty big, m'kay?

It sounded like a dinner theater performance nightmare I had once. The audience munched contentedly and was completely passive as Ms. Kern listed gay outrages. Gays are recruiting children two years of age. That's why they want early childhood education. They are infiltrating city councils in Florida and even Eureka Springs, where they have that Passion Play, m'kay? Homosexuality is like cancer in your little toe. It is deadly and spreading, and the gay lifespan is shorter because of suicide, illness, and discouragement.

Ms. Kern said she was not gay-bashing. She also noted presciently that even talking like this could put her in jeopardy. Nevertheless, she plowed on courageously, m'kay? The audio of her talk was posted, whipsawed around the Internet, and was picked up briefly by CNN.

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED]

But the murder of Lawrence King, a gay middle-schooler in Oxnard, California, barely made the news. The fifteen-year-old was gunned down, allegedly, by a fellow classmate in a hate crime.

After being the wedge issue in many of the last elections, the eerie silence on LGBT issues...