Oklahoma's Turn to Foam

Openly gay Oklahoma legislator Al McAffrey

From the Dallas Voice:

In a rare move in the Oklahoma House, a group of Republicans voted unsuccessfully to exclude a gay pastor’s prayer from becoming a part of the House journal.Before offering his daily prayer in the House on Wednesday [Feb. 11], the Rev. Scott Jones acknowledged several people in the gallery — “dear friends, my wonderful parents, and my loving partner and fiance, Michael.”

Jones, the guest of state Rep. Al McAffrey, is the pastor of the Cathedral of Hope in Oklahoma City.When McAffrey, D-Oklahoma City, asked in the session’s closing minutes that Jones’ prayer be made part of the House journal, the chamber’s official record, Rep. John Wright objected and called for a vote.With 16 members having already left, the House voted 64-20 to include Jones’ prayer in the House journal.

The Oklahoma Conservative Political Action Committee subsequently emailed out a newsletter with this ominous headline:

HOMOSEXUAL PREACHER BRINGS ABOMINATION TO STATE CAPITOL

This past Tuesday State Representative Al McAffrey (D-inner city OKC) had the opportunity to invite a pastor to be the Chaplin for the day and open the session with prayer. McAffrey is the only openly homosexual member of the legislature. The “pastor” he asked to give the prayer was the “Reverend” Scott Jones, also an openly homosexual who introduced his “fiancee” Michael, who was sitting in the gallery.McAffrey asked that Jones’ prayer be recorded in the official minutes of the day, (this is normally only done on Thursdays) Representative John Wright (R-Broken Arrow) objected and called for a vote on the issue.

In my opinion, this was just another cleverly planned skirmish by the homosexuals in the culture war. Radical homosexuals are trying to force society to accept their perverted lifestyle as normal, equal or perhaps superior. Then of course, when normal folks disagree with them, or express that their perversion is “sin” in the eye’s of God as well as all Bible believing Christians (the only real Christians), then the homosexuals play the victim role and accuse those in opposition to their agenda as being haters, bigots, intolerant, narrow minded, red necks and on and on and on. Actually, you don’t have to read many of their notes to people who disagree with them to see that they are the ones that have their hearts full of hate for people who refuse to accept their behavior.

I believe that unless the content of Jones’ prayer was that of confession for his sinful behavior regarding homosexuality and an expression of repentance toward God for his rebellion and perversion, then his being there to give the prayer for the day was an abomination. Based on my reading of God’s Word (The Bible) Jones’ belief that he is a man of God and anyone else who try to justify homosexuality as acceptable, they serve a “god of their own making or their imagination.” They are not serving the God of the Bible and they do not have a relationship with the one and only true God.

To give you a better idea of the level of intelligence of the OCPAC folks, the next item in their newsletter was this bizarre gem of convoluted thinking:

NEWEST NOMINEE FOR LEGISLATOR WHORE OF THE YEAR AWARD

All 3 of the previous nominees for this award have been Democrat Senators. The newest nominee is State Representative John Trebilcock (R-Tulsa). For the 3rd year in a row Trebilcock, a former teacher, has introduced legislation (HB 1036 this year) to give a $500 tax credit to teachers to reimburse them for out of pocket expenses that they spend on school supplies. Trebilcock admits every teacher will spend the maximum amount which will cost the state $21 million dollars.

He indicates this is a neat way to give a $500 tax free pay raise to teachers.Here is my problem with this foolish legislation. It gives each individual teacher the ability to determine how much taxpayers will spend on education. Hey Trebilcock, now an attorney who has probably never read or is unable to understand the Declaration of Independence, isn’t that taxation without representation? We vote for guys like you to represent us, we don’t vote for teachers. Do your job and don’t give it away your responsibility to unelected teachers. Secondly, there is plenty of money for supplies in the classrooms, but you lawmakers have set the standards for teacher salaries which consumes the monies that should be used for supplies. Thirdly, teachers make on average of $5,000 a year more than you lawmakers and $12,000 dollars a year more than we dumb blokes in the private sector who pay the salaries for the both of you. Hum, let me see, you both claim to be public servants, but when you make more than the people who pay your salaries, are you really public servants or have you actually become the “MASTERS” of the public?

For the record, the American Federation of Teachers ranked Oklahoma 41st in the nation for the year 2006-07, with average teacher salary there being $42,379. (Texas was 29th, at $45,392.)

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As an antidote to all the ignorance and hate, go check out the very cool flash presentation, "God Is Still Speaking," on the home page of the OKC Cathedral of Hope - especially if your spirits need a lift today.