A Voice Crying In The Wilderness.....
Dr. Robin Meyers said it all at a peace rally last November at Oklahoma City University:
As some of you know, I am minister of MayflowerCongregational Church in Oklahoma City, an Open andAffirming, Peace and Justice church in northwest OklahomaCity, and professor of Rhetoric at Oklahoma City University. But you would most likely have encountered me on the pages ofthe Oklahoma Gazette, where I have been a columnist for sixyears, and hold the record for the most number of angryletters to the editor.Tonight, I join ranks of those who are angry, because I havewatched as the faith I love has been taken over byfundamentalists who claim to speak for Jesus, but whoseactions are anything but Christian. We’ve heard a lot latelyabout so-called “moral values” as having swung the election toPresident Bush. Well, I’m a great believer in moral values,but we need to have a discussion, all over this country,about exactly what constitutes a moral value — I mean whatare we talking about? More.....
As some of you know, I am minister of MayflowerCongregational Church in Oklahoma City, an Open andAffirming, Peace and Justice church in northwest OklahomaCity, and professor of Rhetoric at Oklahoma City University. But you would most likely have encountered me on the pages ofthe Oklahoma Gazette, where I have been a columnist for sixyears, and hold the record for the most number of angryletters to the editor.Tonight, I join ranks of those who are angry, because I havewatched as the faith I love has been taken over byfundamentalists who claim to speak for Jesus, but whoseactions are anything but Christian. We’ve heard a lot latelyabout so-called “moral values” as having swung the election toPresident Bush. Well, I’m a great believer in moral values,but we need to have a discussion, all over this country,about exactly what constitutes a moral value — I mean whatare we talking about? More.....