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| Joe Valente | Wednesday, 8. July 2009, 15:50 |
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This may be on the wrong thread but I leave that to the moderators It seems that some prayers are not always to everyone’s taste. When Pastor Joe Wright was invited to make the opening prayer in the senate of the Kansas House of Representatives this is what the politicians heard : Lord, we come before you this day to ask forgiveness and ask for your address, We know your word says, “Damn those who call good what is bad” and that is exactly what we did. We lost the spiritual balance and we have changed our values. We have exploited the poor and called it luck We have rewarded laziness and called it social We have killed our children yet unborn and we have called it freedom of choice We have killed our people and we have called it justice We have been remiss to discipline our children and we have called it develop self esteem We have abused power and called it political We have coveted our neighbour’s property and that we’ve called ambition We have polluted the airwaves and television with great rudeness and pornography and we have called it freedom of expression We have ridicule the values established long ago by our ancestors and we have called it the obsolete past Oh God, look deep in our hearts , and purify us and free us from our sins. Amen (J.Wright) One deputy left the room before the prayer ended, three others objected and criticized the Pastor, calling the prayer a message of intolerance. |
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