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Oh great.
I pity DU'ers from Oklahoma.
Gov. Kevin Stitt Plans to Use His Office to Align With What God Is Doing in Oklahoma
By Kyle Mantyla | January 15, 2019 2:24 pm
Newly elected Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma attended an Inaugural Prayer Service today, during which declared that it is his mission to align the state with what God is doing in Oklahoma, while his wife proclaimed that it is their responsibility as Christians to use their position in elected office to go our into our state and save people and bring people to Jesus.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/gov-kevin-stitt-plans-to-use-his-office-to-align-with-what-god-is-doing-in-oklahoma/
MineralMan
(146,351 posts)Feh!
MineralMan
(146,351 posts)Probably sending the state a pantload of tornadoes this Spring. WTF?
TheBlackAdder
(28,261 posts)rurallib
(62,483 posts)Freedomofspeech
(4,230 posts)How horrifyingly disgusting.
niyad
(113,966 posts)spanone
(135,950 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,384 posts)Mazel tov, y'all.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)We now have Trump as Governor of our state, and we have a Trump as the President of the University of Oklahoma.
LiberalFighter
(51,389 posts)maxrandb
(15,401 posts)I'm thinking he's none too pleased
CatMor
(6,212 posts)plus she's going to save people. Will she save people from poverty, provide them with health care, work on climate change or will it be anti gay and transgender and take away abortion. I'm sure it's the latter.
avebury
(10,953 posts)I hate this state, I hate this state, I hate this state!
peggysue2
(10,853 posts)missionaries which is probably what their true calling is. Hello? The purpose of government at any level is decidedly not 'to save people and bring them to Jesus.'
It's to govern, something Republicans have forgotten how to do.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Though wouldn't it be a hoot if he decided to implement programs to feed the hungry, house the homeless, tend to the sick and imprisoned, and free the captives? You know, those things Jesus said? Maybe proclaim the year of jubilee and the forgiveness of debt? Make it the law of the land for Oklahomans to welcome the stranger, the immigrant, the refugee, and the sojourner as they welcome their own family?
Yeah, I know, Gov. Stitt's Jesus don't swing that way.
peggysue2
(10,853 posts)Who have reshaped the message of Jesus to conform to Republican, right-wing ideology.
Jesus weeps.
onethatcares
(16,211 posts)moving to Oklahoma. Nope, Never. Not a snowballs chance in hell.
msongs
(67,502 posts)cynatnite
(31,011 posts)Oklahoma is worse than TN where I live now.
Oklahoma wasn't anything like this when I was growing up there.
sinkingfeeling
(51,498 posts)Behind the Aegis
(54,065 posts)It's a blast!
panader0
(25,816 posts)akraven
(1,975 posts)He was under the couch the whole time...
.. (this dates back to the early 1970's).
These people have NO CLUE what Christianity is.