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Oklahoma Governor Declares Day of Prayer for Oil Industry
Not The Onion!
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2016/10/oklahoma-governor-declares-day-of-prayer-for-oil-industry/
Governor Mary Fallin has issued an Executive Proclamation designating October 13 as Oilfield Prayer Day....
Also commenting on the “Oilfield Prayer Day,” Nation of Change opines:
Perhaps it would be more prudent for Gov. Mary Fallin and the Republican-dominated legislature to stop praying to the oil industry and start passing laws to make their state’s oil billionaires pay their fair share of taxes.
Bottom line: There is something profoundly perverse about Gov. Mary Fallin asking citizens of Oklahoma to pray for the oil and natural gas industry, instead of, say, the homeless, or kids with cancer, or those suffering from war, famine, and oppression around the globe.
Yet perhaps more important, there is something deeply distasteful about Fallin using her authority as Governor to promote her particularly perverse and crass vision of Christianity. At the very least, her sectarian call for prayers is an insult to the U.S. Constitution, and the secular values upon which this nation was founded.
Also commenting on the “Oilfield Prayer Day,” Nation of Change opines:
Perhaps it would be more prudent for Gov. Mary Fallin and the Republican-dominated legislature to stop praying to the oil industry and start passing laws to make their state’s oil billionaires pay their fair share of taxes.
Bottom line: There is something profoundly perverse about Gov. Mary Fallin asking citizens of Oklahoma to pray for the oil and natural gas industry, instead of, say, the homeless, or kids with cancer, or those suffering from war, famine, and oppression around the globe.
Yet perhaps more important, there is something deeply distasteful about Fallin using her authority as Governor to promote her particularly perverse and crass vision of Christianity. At the very least, her sectarian call for prayers is an insult to the U.S. Constitution, and the secular values upon which this nation was founded.
Hail Mary, full of grease...
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OK, I got a laugh out of that one!
