{"id":637,"date":"2005-06-10T17:23:06","date_gmt":"2005-06-11T00:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=637"},"modified":"2005-06-10T17:23:06","modified_gmt":"2005-06-11T00:23:06","slug":"watch-for-the-revivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2005\/06\/10\/watch-for-the-revivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch for the Revivals"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Brad Carson, Democratic candidate for the Senate of Oklahoma in 2004, saideth this<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I don’t remember when I first realized that my campaign for United States Senate was in trouble. But one moment stands out. I was in Sallisaw, Oklahoma.
\n[…]<\/p>\n

As I arrived at the church, my wife and I were given the church bulletin, which outlined the weekly selection of hymns and Bible readings. On the back of the bulletin, atop the blank space reserved for copious note-taking during the sermon, was the heading: “wwjv? pro-life or pro-death?” (I favored the partial-birth abortion ban but opposed overturning Roe v. Wade.) In the sanctuary, a 20-by-20-foot depiction of a fetus looked down upon the assembled throng from a projection screen. Superimposed upon the unsettling image–which morphed to show the fetus in various stages of gestation–was fact after fact about abortions in America.<\/i><\/p>\n

Though there is a problem here with all of Brad Carson’s thoughts. He’s running in Oklahoma. He’s trying to woe the parish of right-wing church. Illinois had a candidate with pretty much exact political stripe of Brad Carson’s opponent (Tom Coburn)– name of Alan Keyes… the vote disparity between Coburn and Keyes tells you all you need to know about Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

Never mind. There is a startling factor. The Kansas example, found in What’s the Matter With Kansas<\/u>, and a personal testimony found with various unsundry characters<\/a> regarding the “Summer of Mercy”, which was the start of the great Evangelical Fancy of Kansas Politics. Texas’s governor just suggested that gay veterans oughta get out of Texas<\/a>. And Bush’s re-election cannot be understood without The Passion Of the Christ<\/u>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brad Carson, Democratic candidate for the Senate of Oklahoma in 2004, saideth this: I don’t remember when I first realized that my campaign for United States Senate was in trouble. But one moment stands out. I was in Sallisaw, Oklahoma. […] As I arrived at the church, my wife and I were given the church […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}