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		<title>By: Employment Lawyer</title>
		<link>http://suburbankitsch.com/2009/07/03/god-and-country-and-oklahoma/#comment-223</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:32:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for the well-written article, bookmarked and rss subscribed...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for the well-written article, bookmarked and rss subscribed&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Summer</title>
		<link>http://suburbankitsch.com/2009/07/03/god-and-country-and-oklahoma/#comment-106</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Talking about justice made me remember that I&#039;d wanted to tell you about an organization I heard about recently. The founder, Gary Haugen, spoke at a church we visited.
He&#039;s a D.C. Lawyer whose organization, International Justice Mission, works to rescue people (mostly children) out of human/sex trafficking. IJM employs hundreds of legal professionals and works all over the world.
http://www.ijm.org/]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Talking about justice made me remember that I&#8217;d wanted to tell you about an organization I heard about recently. The founder, Gary Haugen, spoke at a church we visited.<br />
He&#8217;s a D.C. Lawyer whose organization, International Justice Mission, works to rescue people (mostly children) out of human/sex trafficking. IJM employs hundreds of legal professionals and works all over the world.<br />
<a href="http://www.ijm.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ijm.org/</a></p>
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		<title>By: jamesnimmo</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 18:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Juicing the Fruits
 
by James Nimmo
 
(OKLAHOMA CITY)  I&#039;m sure the sham of appearing at the Capitol and giving the impression this is a legislative procedure is exactly what was intended when GOPer Sally Kern and Krew planned their morality proclamation ceremony on July 2 in Oklahoma City.
 
If she were interested in promoting only morality and not instead, introducing her personal religious restrictions, why isn&#039;t she using her own church, Olivett Baptist, as her backdrop?
 
As always with the mentally unbalanced words and actions are morphed into absurd definitions and shapes.  Lies to support other lies are always invented, regardless of how holy the intent of the lies is supposed to be. 
 
She speaks of divorce as contributing to national decline.  How short her memory is for anything except bible verses.
 
Kern&#039;s patron saint, Ronald Reagan, was divorced, as is Newt Gingrich and Rumbaugh twice each.  Sen. Vitter of LA likes diaper sex with paid escorts and Gov. Sandford of SC abandons his family and state duties to amorize in Argentina.  Gov. Palin of AK can&#039;t teach her eldest daughter to say simple words like, &quot;No&quot;.
 
When you don&#039;t set yourself up on a high soap box in the first place and then mistake it for a psychiatrist&#039;s office you don&#039;t have to fall so inevitably far when you come up short in your own life.
 
Kern should spend more time looking at the fruit falling close to her family tree ( http://tinyurl.com/krahr9 ) before she tries to juice the private lives of others.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Juicing the Fruits</p>
<p>by James Nimmo</p>
<p>(OKLAHOMA CITY)  I&#8217;m sure the sham of appearing at the Capitol and giving the impression this is a legislative procedure is exactly what was intended when GOPer Sally Kern and Krew planned their morality proclamation ceremony on July 2 in Oklahoma City.</p>
<p>If she were interested in promoting only morality and not instead, introducing her personal religious restrictions, why isn&#8217;t she using her own church, Olivett Baptist, as her backdrop?</p>
<p>As always with the mentally unbalanced words and actions are morphed into absurd definitions and shapes.  Lies to support other lies are always invented, regardless of how holy the intent of the lies is supposed to be. </p>
<p>She speaks of divorce as contributing to national decline.  How short her memory is for anything except bible verses.</p>
<p>Kern&#8217;s patron saint, Ronald Reagan, was divorced, as is Newt Gingrich and Rumbaugh twice each.  Sen. Vitter of LA likes diaper sex with paid escorts and Gov. Sandford of SC abandons his family and state duties to amorize in Argentina.  Gov. Palin of AK can&#8217;t teach her eldest daughter to say simple words like, &#8220;No&#8221;.</p>
<p>When you don&#8217;t set yourself up on a high soap box in the first place and then mistake it for a psychiatrist&#8217;s office you don&#8217;t have to fall so inevitably far when you come up short in your own life.</p>
<p>Kern should spend more time looking at the fruit falling close to her family tree ( <a href="http://tinyurl.com/krahr9" rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/krahr9</a> ) before she tries to juice the private lives of others.</p>
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		<title>By: Sarah</title>
		<link>http://suburbankitsch.com/2009/07/03/god-and-country-and-oklahoma/#comment-101</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Word. 

Dwight mentioned that at the protest, there were a few protesters who were openly praying during Kern&#039;s proclamation. I thought it was cool that there was such a diverse group of people that came out to protest...it wasn&#039;t only gays and atheists.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Word. </p>
<p>Dwight mentioned that at the protest, there were a few protesters who were openly praying during Kern&#8217;s proclamation. I thought it was cool that there was such a diverse group of people that came out to protest&#8230;it wasn&#8217;t only gays and atheists.</p>
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		<title>By: GraceKathryn</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:22:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&quot;Would it have made a difference if Rep. Kiesel wasn’t a Christian?&quot;

Good question! No, not at &lt;b&gt;ALL&lt;/b&gt;. Truth is truth, regardless of the speaker. His statement would have still carried the same gravity if he were an atheist, a Muslim, or a Raëlian. I only threw that statement in there to appeal to other Christians who might be reading my blog. I wanted to show that you don&#039;t have to be a far right wing nut-job to be a Christian. Even in Oklahoma.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Would it have made a difference if Rep. Kiesel wasn’t a Christian?&#8221;</p>
<p>Good question! No, not at <b>ALL</b>. Truth is truth, regardless of the speaker. His statement would have still carried the same gravity if he were an atheist, a Muslim, or a Raëlian. I only threw that statement in there to appeal to other Christians who might be reading my blog. I wanted to show that you don&#8217;t have to be a far right wing nut-job to be a Christian. Even in Oklahoma.</p>
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		<title>By: Sarah</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kern&#039;s proclamation is so completely absurd, and demonstrates nothing except her ability to misinterpret and mischaracterize historical quotations. She&#039;s right up there with Falwell and others, in blaming disastrous events (9/11, Katrina, economic recession) on Teh Gays and Teh Abortionists. It would be too ridiculous to even get upset about, if only I didn&#039;t know so many people around here agree with her. 

One question I have on a comment you made in your post, though. You said: 

&lt;em&gt;For other eloquent refutations of Mrs. Kern’s vile proclamation for “morality,” see Rep. Al McAffrey’s blog entry and Rep. Ryan Kiesel’s speech (Mr. Kiesel is a Christian, too, by the way).&lt;/em&gt;

Would it have made a difference if Rep. Kiesel &lt;em&gt;wasn&#039;t&lt;/em&gt; a Christian? Perhaps I&#039;m just overly sensitive, but every time I hear someone say something like this, I wonder if they might attribute less value to similar comments made by non-Christians. I&#039;m sure that wasn&#039;t your intent...I was just hoping for some clarification. 

Have a wonderful vacation!!!]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Kern&#8217;s proclamation is so completely absurd, and demonstrates nothing except her ability to misinterpret and mischaracterize historical quotations. She&#8217;s right up there with Falwell and others, in blaming disastrous events (9/11, Katrina, economic recession) on Teh Gays and Teh Abortionists. It would be too ridiculous to even get upset about, if only I didn&#8217;t know so many people around here agree with her. </p>
<p>One question I have on a comment you made in your post, though. You said: </p>
<p><em>For other eloquent refutations of Mrs. Kern’s vile proclamation for “morality,” see Rep. Al McAffrey’s blog entry and Rep. Ryan Kiesel’s speech (Mr. Kiesel is a Christian, too, by the way).</em></p>
<p>Would it have made a difference if Rep. Kiesel <em>wasn&#8217;t</em> a Christian? Perhaps I&#8217;m just overly sensitive, but every time I hear someone say something like this, I wonder if they might attribute less value to similar comments made by non-Christians. I&#8217;m sure that wasn&#8217;t your intent&#8230;I was just hoping for some clarification. </p>
<p>Have a wonderful vacation!!!</p>
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