Compare these two recent events in Oklahoma, and tell me if you figure out the punch line before I get to it:
Case #1: The sweeping new immigration law in the state has become something of a sick joke nationally, since it includes things like making it a felony to give an immigrant a ride (imagine being sentenced to a year in prison ‘cause you stopped to pick up a guy whose car had run out of gas on the highway). But there’s nothing funny at all about it, because among its many provisions (many, many provisions) is a regulation making it illegal to provide medical care to any immigrant, even a child or an infant. Think about that for a minute.
There was basically no resistance to the bill. Combining the votes in both Houses, it passed 129-15. This means that 89.6% of the elected representatives chosen by the citizens of Oklahoma supported this bill.
Case #2: As a peace offering, the Ethnic American Advisory Council, a state agency, sent copies of the Koran to each and every state legislator in celebration of the state’s 100th birthday (earlier this year, the Baptist General Convention sent “Centennial Bibles” in the same spirit). Many GOP folks, however, refused to accept the gifts. One of them, some halfwit named Rex Duncan, explained, “Most Oklahomans do not endorse the idea of killing innocent women and children in the name of ideology.”
Brothers and sisters, this is clearly not the case. 89.6% of Oklahomans endorsed that very thing this past Election Day.
Case #1: The sweeping new immigration law in the state has become something of a sick joke nationally, since it includes things like making it a felony to give an immigrant a ride (imagine being sentenced to a year in prison ‘cause you stopped to pick up a guy whose car had run out of gas on the highway). But there’s nothing funny at all about it, because among its many provisions (many, many provisions) is a regulation making it illegal to provide medical care to any immigrant, even a child or an infant. Think about that for a minute.
There was basically no resistance to the bill. Combining the votes in both Houses, it passed 129-15. This means that 89.6% of the elected representatives chosen by the citizens of Oklahoma supported this bill.
Case #2: As a peace offering, the Ethnic American Advisory Council, a state agency, sent copies of the Koran to each and every state legislator in celebration of the state’s 100th birthday (earlier this year, the Baptist General Convention sent “Centennial Bibles” in the same spirit). Many GOP folks, however, refused to accept the gifts. One of them, some halfwit named Rex Duncan, explained, “Most Oklahomans do not endorse the idea of killing innocent women and children in the name of ideology.”
Brothers and sisters, this is clearly not the case. 89.6% of Oklahomans endorsed that very thing this past Election Day.
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