Oh Heavenly Father
When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what they heard:
Heavenly Father, we come before you to ask your forgiveness. We seek your direction and your guidance. We know your word says, "Woe to those who call evil good." But that's what we've done.
We have focussed on minutiae and intolerance and ridiculed the absolute truth of your word of love in the name of "family values". We have oppressed the homosexuals and called it "love the sinner, hate the sin".
We have fanned the flames of intolerance by waving gay marriage as a threat to an insecure middle America in order to expand our own personal power and greed.
We've exploited the poor and called it church fund-raising. We have rewarded corporate greed and called it trickle down. In the name of freedom, we have killed countless Iraqis. In the name of right to life, we have killed abortionists.
I never finished editing the rest.
I got fixated on the fact that a alleged religious figure wrote the original and he is as fucked up as those crazy Muslim dudes who all seem to live in England and New Jersey, and well, it didn't seem so funny anymore. This is the rest of his spiel. That state of Kansas, where my California tax dollars flow downstream to.
We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem. We have abused power and called it political savvy. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it taxes. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.
Search us, oh, God, and know our hearts today. Try us. Show us any wickedness within us. Cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent here by the people of the State of Kansas, and that they have been ordained by you to govern this great state.
Grant them your wisdom to rule. May their decisions direct us to the center of your will. And, as we continue our prayer and as we come in out of the fog, give us clear minds to accomplish our goals as we begin this Legislature. For we pray in Jesus' name, Amen.
Heavenly Father, we come before you to ask your forgiveness. We seek your direction and your guidance. We know your word says, "Woe to those who call evil good." But that's what we've done.
We have focussed on minutiae and intolerance and ridiculed the absolute truth of your word of love in the name of "family values". We have oppressed the homosexuals and called it "love the sinner, hate the sin".
We have fanned the flames of intolerance by waving gay marriage as a threat to an insecure middle America in order to expand our own personal power and greed.
We've exploited the poor and called it church fund-raising. We have rewarded corporate greed and called it trickle down. In the name of freedom, we have killed countless Iraqis. In the name of right to life, we have killed abortionists.
I never finished editing the rest.
I got fixated on the fact that a alleged religious figure wrote the original and he is as fucked up as those crazy Muslim dudes who all seem to live in England and New Jersey, and well, it didn't seem so funny anymore. This is the rest of his spiel. That state of Kansas, where my California tax dollars flow downstream to.
We have neglected to discipline our children and called it building self-esteem. We have abused power and called it political savvy. We have coveted our neighbor's possessions and called it taxes. We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers and called it enlightenment.
Search us, oh, God, and know our hearts today. Try us. Show us any wickedness within us. Cleanse us from every sin and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent here by the people of the State of Kansas, and that they have been ordained by you to govern this great state.
Grant them your wisdom to rule. May their decisions direct us to the center of your will. And, as we continue our prayer and as we come in out of the fog, give us clear minds to accomplish our goals as we begin this Legislature. For we pray in Jesus' name, Amen.
posted by FJ at 11:18 AM
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