Oklahoma state Rep. Sally Kern (R) first became infamous on the national stage when she said that blacks “don’t work as hard” as white people. The Oklahoma House finally reprimanded her for those statements, but Kern has yet to answer for a number of derogatory remarks she’s made about gay men and women.

Now, ahead of the 10th anniversary of Sept. 11, Kern is doubling down on her claim that homosexuality poses a greater threat to America than terrorist attacks. In 2008, Kern said homosexuality is “the biggest threat our nation has, even more so than terrorism or Islam,” and called it a cancer that is “spreading” across America and “will destroy our young people.”

Now Right Wing Watch reports that a few days ago, she spoke with Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality to promote her new book, The Stoning of Sally Kern. She repeated her claim that homosexuality is “more dangerous” than terrorist attacks because unlike terrorism, we have to deal with it every day:

KERN: 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? And you know, every day our young people…they’re bombarded with ‘homosexuality is normal and natural.’ It’s something they have to deal with every day. Fortunately we don’t have to deal with a terrorist attack every day, and that’s what I mean. It’s more dangerous, and yes I think that it’s also more dangerous because it will tear down the moral fiber of this nation.

Listen here:

Kern went on to say that homosexuality is eroding the “principles of religion and morality” our nation was founded on and “without virtue this nation will not survive.” Perhaps not coincidentally, her words echo the rhetoric of conservatives who blamed the September 11th attacks themselves on homosexuality in America.

It’s difficult to comprehend the sheer heartlessness of Kern’s implication that the gay men and women who were murdered on September 11th were actually a greater threat to their country than the terrorists who killed them. Also insulting — and ignorant — is her claim that homosexuality is solely or mostly to blame for AIDS deaths. Blaming the AIDS epidemic on the gay population is to blame many of its victims.

Sen. Rubén Díaz was proud to be the only Democrat who voted against marriage equality in New York last month. In the lead-up to the vote, he welcomed religious leaders to his anti-equality rally who said gay people “are worthy of death,” lied about the religious protections in the original bill, and scapegoated his lesbian granddaughter to excuse his intolerance. Now, he’s reaching out to thank the people who have supported him for wearing his anti-equality “badge of honor.” Most of the support he’s gotten is anonymous, but two notable names on the list include Archbishop Timothy Dolan and Oklahoma State Rep. Sally Kern (R):

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan: “I have read your July 7 piece. Bravo! Consider me a grateful ally who admires you deeply. In Christ, +Timothy M. Dolan”

Oklahoma state Rep. Sally Kern: “Sen. Diaz, you are in my prayers. Three years ago I was the target of the homosexuals because of statements I made regarding the dangers of the homosexual agenda. So I know what you are going through. Continue to stand strong on God’s Word. What the homosexuals mean for evil toward you, God will use for His glory, your good, and the benefit of others. God bless you and your family.”

Dolan has constantly attacked the LGBT community during the New York marriage debate over the past few months, comparing same-sex marriage to incest, polygamy, and a community dictatorship, calling it “detrimental to the common good,” and suggesting that it will lead to changing the rules of America’s pastime. And among the many offensive things Kern has said and promoted, none stands out quite like her 2008 declaration that “the homosexual agenda is just destroying this nation” and that homosexuality poses a bigger threat to the U.S. than terrorism.

It seems Díaz is in good company.