Thursday, April 3, 2008

Bilerico Project: When Jerre Met Sally

If Oklahoma Representative Sally Kern wants to talk about terror, Islam or cancer, she should look up Jerre Fine in the Oklahoma City phonebook.
Fine, a veteran of the United States Air Force, was based at Fort Gordon, Georgia, and spent her days as an intelligence officer doing critical satellite communications work in support of the war on terrorism. She also lost a loved one in the Oklahoma City bombing. And her father is a survivor of lung cancer.
So when Kern compared gays to a "cancer" that is "just destroying this nation" and went on to proclaim that gays are "the biggest threat that our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam," Fine listened carefully.
And it came to be that, when Jerre met Sally (via the MySpace and the YouTube), she was, decidedly, not in the mood to "have what she's having

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