From the Sooner Tea Party
Did they really just attack an entire church?
Want proof that the Oklahoman has lost any vestige of journalistic integrity? Read this titillating headline that ran in the Sunday paper:
Quote:"Oklahoma City Council candidates attend a church observers have criticized for flying the Confederate flag, making political commentary from the pulpit and training children to use automatic weapons at a church camp."
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Read more: http://newsok.com/activities-of-council-candidates-church-draw-criticism/article/3544301#ixzz1FDeJ8P5k
Wow! Sounds like some radical, racist, good old boys with kids just waiting to hose you down with machine gun fire if you take their ice cream away. Well.... not so much. Turns out those confederate flags were part of an event where they were displayed alongside the Union flag. Darned... sounded like the Democrats were resurrecting the KKK again to liven things up in OKC. You do remember that it was the Democratic party that was the powerhouse behind the KKK, with Democratic Governor Fabus and George Wallace vowing not to integrate the schools? And who stood against them but Republican Dwight Eisenhower.
And that political commentary from the pulpit? Woo, they caught Pastor Vineyard on that one on one of their videos:
"Pray for ... Brother Hearron, Brother Van Manen and their campaigns,"
But there is more! Seems Pastor Vineyard asked church members to volunteer for political candidates and urged them to call elected officials regarding legislation at the capitol! How dare he ask them to be good citizens! Despite the opinions of the "experts" the Oklahoman brought in for the interview, there is nothing wrong with a non-profit asking people to get involved in politics as long as you don't tell them to vote for someone in particular. You can expose the voting records, call them a suspect in the paternity of the litter of pups down the street, or say they don't like girls as long as you don't advocate voting for or voting against them.
I hear the muttering out there: "Ah, but Al, they trained children to use machine guns!" Turns out the church has a summer camp in Kingfisher County with sessions for children and adults and include safety training for pistols, rifles and shotguns, and even some automatic weapons demonstrations. Uh, demonstrations? I had pictures in my mind of six year olds struggling to stay on their feet and keep a bucking Uzi machine pistol on target. They did mention al-Qaida type training in the article, didn't they? Well, yeah, but it was actually the Department of Wildlife Conservation that has conducted training there for the last three years. Boy, there is a radical bunch, those state game rangers, always where the wildlife is happening.
Isn't this cartoonish? A staid and solid 100 year old newspaper owned by a billionaire attacking a dang church of all things?
I've been to the Windsor Hills Baptist Church last year, was invited to speak on the need for people to stand up and start the hard, dirty work of taking our country back from the progressives and the liberals. It mattered not that I wasn't of their exact faith or that I wasn't a member. They didn't care that the Sooner Tea Party is willing to thump on politicians if they need it, they were just glad that someone was thumping them. And it is a rare "fundamentalist" church, if the Oklahoman's claims are to be taken as truth, that invites outsiders into their world. In fact the liberty movement here in Oklahoma recently had many of the religious right groups defect because they didn't think they were "equally yoked" and that only a leader of their exact faith would be blessed by God and ensure victory. Not Windsor Hills Baptist Church, they will work with anyone regardless of their faith or creed. That is true Christian behavior in my book. They leave the judging up to God. They understand that the Constitution delivered freedom of religion and your right to choose to live your life as you see fit.
So why would the Oklahoman shoot themselves in the foot like this? Because they are flailing about in desperation over the city council race, seeing the state chamber of commerce board members losing their races in the polls despite an injection of over a quarter of a million dollars into their campaigns. For the fist time in Oklahoma City history the establishment is actually running TV ads for a city council race! Traditionally they get 1500 votes per ward, so 751 voters decide who gets the ward position. And they are spending a quarter million to convince those 751 voters to show up? All the while they complain about the Tea Party getting involved by making signs for three of the candidates and daring to endorse them?
What does the Tea Party need you to do? Well, write a letter to the editor over this embarrassing journalistic behavior. Or call them and cancel your subscription like I did in January when they went too far. Nineteen years I've been a subscriber to that rag. Still am, I guess, ’cause they won't stop delivering it even after they have called four times and have been told that no I wasn't going to support their paper and to stop delivering the thing. Seems they are losing subscribers at such a rapid rate that they are continuing to deliver at no cost just to keep their circulation numbers from plummeting and losing ad revenue. But what we really need you to do is to vote on March 1st: Adrian Van Manen for Ward 6, Clifford Hearron for Ward 8, and Brian Walters for Ward 5. Ward 2? I personally couldn't find anyone that was worth beans. All I have to go on is that the Oklahoman didn't like the 30-year-old student. Something to be said for the fact that they liked him the least, so I guess I'd vote for him if I lived in his ward. How embarrassing that we didn't get a suitable candidate in that race.
