The war on terror has reached new heights depths in Oklahoma.

Just last week, Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern was firing up the Republican base by targeting the terrorists. In other words, gay people.

In a disturbing speech delivered to a conservative Christian group that she likely wasn’t expecting would be taped or released, Kern expressed her belief that gays and lesbians were the biggest threat our nation has ever faced.

Yup, even more than terrorism or Islamic fascism. Or gun violence or the decline of civil liberties or even global warming. Blame the gays!

Kern added that the homosexuals are already “infiltrating” city councils and states like VER-mont. That’s actually how she pronounced it.

This lunatic believes such humans are responsible for the demise of world societies and effectively a “cancer” that apparently needs to be cut out.

Not only does the “lifestyle” have “deadly consequences” (!?) for those involved in it, but “no society in the world has embraced homosexuality for more than a few decades,” according to the brilliant political mind that is Kern.

She’s right. The United States of Cher Fans never had a chance.

Despite the negative response once the speech was leaked (imagine that), Sally Kern has refused to apologize, saying the remarks were “taken out of context.”

We can see that. She must have simply meant that gays are a bigger threat at Nieman Marcus during a big sale than terrorists would be.

So you can see just how “out of context” this is, here you go …

Fortunately, this woman is so over the top and ridiculous that it’s almost funnier than it is sad or horrifying, but let’s put kidding aside for a moment.

Free speech is free speech, but when it incites hate and violence - coming from an elected official, no less - that tells you a lot about our country’s values and why millions of ignorant people actually accept these stupid lies.

We dismiss Sally Kern as a joke, but this type of garbage fosters prejudice and hate crimes ranging from name calling to the unthinkably worse.

Equality should be a moral imperative, and few things more infuriating to us than gay issues… specifically the fact that such issues even exist.

As we’ve seen in our nation’s history, backwards-ass thinking takes generations to reverse - and that’s without shameful hate-mongering from public figures like this hack reinforcing it. Way to help out, Sally. Enjoy the unemployment line.

NOTE: You can write Sally at sallykern@okhouse.gov.