While our state legislators are busy pitching bills to make divorce illegal, abortions shameful and impossible, gay marriage more illegal and our already-harsh immigration laws even harsher, we sit near the bad ends of those really embarrassing lists. The ones about “fattest states” or “lowest test scores” or “worst public transportation.” Do we rank highly on some list of “states that Jesus loves the very most?” Or are we just trying to stay in God’s good graces to avoid natural disasters? Because that’s not working.
I got angry letters to the editor from liberals for my last piece; I consider that kind of a badge of honor. But this one is sure to rile up The Jesus* something awful.
*In case you haven’t figured it out by now, "The Jesus" isn’t my term for The Lord, in whom I believe entirely. (That sound you hear is my sweet liberal friends running for their adorable little lives). Like the phrase "God’s Mid-South Representatives," I say "The Jesus" as a way of distinguishing the section of the church that believes itself both uniquely qualified to speak for God and to run things here on Earth, all evidence, intuition and Scripture to the contrary.




14 July 2010
America, Oklahoma, Writer | Comments (1)