Legislative District 20 Representative Anthony Kern is the latest Republican member of the Arizona State Legislature that thinks scientifically accurate age-appropriate sex education is bad for children.
He joins a club of fellow same thinking village idiots that includes Speaker Russell “I attend Hate Group Conferences” Bowers, State Senator Sylvia “Out of the Closet Racist” Sylvia Allen, and Kelly “Donna Trump” Townsend.
Speaking to a group of kindred Tea Party reactionary spirits on December 11, 2019, Kern, as reported by the Phoenix New Times, said that Democrats, if they took over the Arizona State Legislature, would show pornography to kindergarten students and elevate LGBTQ rights to a level where the group would “take over” the state.
Kern also claimed, as reported by AZ Central, that Democrats would also move to look to enact gun control legislation instead of relying on calling on God’s intervention to prevent mass school shootings.
A playback of the Representatives comments, taken by American Bridge-Independent, is below:
Apparently, Kern has not stopped to think that God’s presence has not prevented the many horrific acts including shootings, arson, and vandalism in the many houses of worship (Jewish, Christian, or Moslem) and holy grounds in this country and around the world.
Judy Schwiebert, the Democratic State House Candidate, looking to defeat Mr. Kern in the November 2020 elections commented that:
“It’s unfortunate that Representative Kern is using divisive rhetoric and ideology rather than promoting good public policy. Our leaders should respect the concerns of people in our communities, not make baseless statements that divide us. I’m running to bring people together to get things done.”
This yearning on the part of Republican reactionaries to turn the clock back to a theocratic and ignorant dark age is problematic and counterproductive to the future of Arizona.
Kern, a former law enforcement official who already caused controversy earlier in 2019 when he wanted to enact legislation that would have taken his name off a police officer blacklist, is not the “chosen one” to help lead Arizona into the 2020s.
The people of Legislative District 20 will hopefully realize that Mr. Kern’s views are not best to move Arizona forward and will choose someone whose ideas are.
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