In 2008, when Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern said that "the homosexual agenda is just destroying this nation... it's the biggest threat that our nation has...", she received thousands of outraged emails, many of which she claimed contained death threats.
Since then Kern has continued to share her controversial opinions -- earlier this year she asserted minorities make less money because they don't work as hard as non-minorities and last month she offered this gem:
"You know if you just look at it in practical terms, which has destroyed and ended the life of more people? Terrorism attack here in America or HIV/AIDS? In the last twenty years, fifteen to twenty years, we've had maybe three terrorist attacks on our soil with a little over 5,000 people regrettably losing their lives. In the same time frame, there have been hundreds of thousands who have died because of having AIDS. So which one's the biggest threat?"
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Complete article at Huffington Post : http://huff.to/ncP8mA

Sally Kern, Oklahoma State Representative, Says She Feared For Her Life After Speaking Out Against Gay Rights (HuffingtonPost) 

