You Friday moment of Zen, supplied by GOP Rep. Lori Saine–during debate today in the Colorado House over a resolution honoring former Sen. Bill Armstrong, former president of Colorado Christian University.
It gets a little rambly, but Rep. Saine shifts gears from praising for Sen. Armstrong into a quasi-sermon about how Colorado is “ground zero in the battle for the next generation”–and how Christians in the General Assembly are more than “conquerors in Christ.”
SAINE: As more and more of our brothers and sisters are being led into slavery in this ever-mounting spiritual warfare, we need abolitionists more than ever. From all parties, from all corners. Do not forget who you really are. Lead them all to the one whom Bill loves. This country needs a third Great Awakening, and if it starts here, begins now in this place, this will be the most important work we will have ever done together in this chamber.
And from there, Rep. Saine led the faithful in the Colorado House in a rousing chant of “Jesus! Jesus! Jesus!” rounding out this minute or so of revival.
…Or the deity of your choice, Rep. Saine forgot to say! That’s the law of the land.
Now, we’re not entirely sure what Rep. Saine meant by all of that, but we assume the stuff about “abolitionism” was not intended in the sense we understand from American history. Also, the Colorado House of Representatives is not really the right venue for a “Third Great Awakening,” however important that might be to Rep. Saine personally. There’s this small matter of the separation of church and state.
Of course, the legislature doesn’t do business on Sundays, so we suppose they could hold church then? Otherwise, we believe the legislature has more than enough to do between now and adjournment–and they should save the proselytizing for when lawmakers are off the clock.
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In Saine! Someone had to say it.
It's punchier to refer to her as "Lori isn't Saine”
Isn't she the bat shit nut job who Both Ways Bob and his allegedly criminal organization tried to take out in a primary last election cycle?
Yup, she's one of them.
Is is really too much to ask that these clowns keep their "My invisible magic sky daddy is better than your invisible magic sky daddy" nonsense off the House floor? Apparently it is.
It's a thankless job, but somebody had to carry on the fine tradition since Dr. Chaps is no longer with them.
No wonder they are afraid of Sharia law. It might interfere with their attempts to make America a theocratic government.
Well, yeah. I thought everyone knew that's their objection.
Jesus.
I think she should be censured and not allowed to speak on the floor for the remainder of the term
As an antidote to Saine's arrogant posturing, refresh your soul with Papa Frank's Ted Talk on compassion, interconnectedness, and tolerance.
^^^this^^^
Today we celebrate the 84th lap around the Sun for the Red Headed Stranger, Willie Nelson. He's 'Still Not Dead Yet', releasing his 101st album, 'God's Problem Child,' yesterday. A man of great generosity and compassion, one of my favorite things to watch is the official video of 'Man in the Mirror', where Willie gets some love at 4:18 in the video for his support in founding of FarmAid.
No matter how weird and conflicted Michael Jackson was, he wrote some pretty great songs. As has Willie, who is a national treasure for many reasons.
Memorializing the former head of Colorado Christian University and they dared talk about Christianity. That's outrageous.
The Constitution prohibits the establishment of a state religion. It does not prohibit any discussion of religion, unless you are a Godless Dem in which case any discussion that suggests the state is not omnipotent is sacrilegious.
Carnegie and Saine are members of American Taliban and favor Sharia law
Gray:
Actually I favor the Constitution. You might read "Ten Tortured Words" by Stephen Mansfield. It explains the history of the sentence"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.", which is the first sentence in the Bill of Rights. It established that faith may not be commanded by the state. Nothing more. Nothing less.
Odin is fuming and pondering smiting the hatemongers of CCU
Not to mention that Athena is really pissed.
But by God you better not talk about gun safety in Andrews presence. He goes absolutely bat shit about protecting people from senseless violence along with the rest of the Pharisees in his Parish. The Pharisees can talk about Jesus on the floor of the house but those terrible heathen Democrats better not talk about making our streets safer. And this fool thinks he is going to heaven and live forever and advise God on how to run the Universe. What a little shithead of a human being. What if you aren't destined for Heaven Andrew? What if you life is nothing more than an exercise in nihilism?
If Saine had her way, faith would indeed be commanded by the state.
It just might take some divine intervention to get the damn roads fixed.
Don't laugh. I seem to recall that former Texas Governor Rick "Ooops" Perry once signed a proclamation calling for a day of prayer to solve a drought problem.
And during his 1990 campaign for governor, John Andrews admitted to praying over mung beans to make them grow.
I can easily see some of them doing a faith-healing session over some large pothole. Anything to avoid actually paying money to fix the roads….
I can remember back in the winter of '76 – '77 there was almost no snowfall in the mountains (that's when ski areas went into snow making big time). One tactic to induce snow was to have Indians perform rain dances.
Obviously this non-Christian heathen ritual would be frowned upon by the likes of Saine, et al.
From Wikipedia”
“Rainmaking is a weather modification ritual that attempts to invoke rain.
Among the best known examples of weather modification rituals are North American rain dances, historically performed by many Native American tribes, particularly in the Southwestern United States. Some of these weather modification rituals are still implemented today.[1]”
hmmmm….. “weather modification ritual”. That sounds suspiciously like “climate change”….
So proud of their silly mythology. What a waste
Is this an episode of, "Delicious Dish?"