Prayer to open the Kansas State Legislature in 1996. Has the country gotten better or worse since then? Notice the reaction from the Democrats on this, why such animosity to what is clearly The Truth!
The response to this was immediate: A number of the Legislature walked out during the prayer in protest. House Minority Leader Tom Sawyer (also a Democrat) asserted that the prayer “reflects the extreme, radical views that continue to dominate the House Republican agenda since right-wing extremists seized control of the House Republican caucus last year.” Rep. Jim Long, a Democrat from Kansas City, said that Wright “made everyone mad.”
In six short weeks, the Central Christian Church had logged more than 5,000 responding calls, with only 47 of those calls responding negatively. The church received requests for copies of the prayer from India, Africa and Korea:
“Heavenly Father, we come before you today and ask Your forgiveness and
to seek Your direction and guidance. We know Your Word says, “Woe on
those who call evil good,” but that’s exactly what we have done. We have
lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. We confess that:
We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word and called it pluralism.
We have worshiped other gods and called it multiculturalism. We have
endorsed perversion and called it alternative lifestyle. We have exploited
the poor and called it the lottery. We have neglected the needy and called
it self-preservation. We have rewarded laziness and called it welfare. We
have killed our unborn and called it choice. We have shot abortionists
and called it justifiable. We have neglected to discipline our children and
called it building self-esteem. We have abused power and called it political
savvy. We have coveted our neighbor’s possessions and called it ambition.
We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography and called it
freedom of expression. We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our
forefathers and called it enlightenment. Search us, O God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin
and set us free. Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent
to direct us to the center of your will. I ask it in the name of Your Son, the
Living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen.”