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A prayer which can upset some people

Opening prayer in the Senate, Kansas

by Joe Wrigh

You might want to read the prayer that was made at the meeting in Kansas
inauguration of the 'Kansas House of Representatives’. It seems this sentence upset some people. When Pastor Joe Wright was asked to make the opening prayer in senate of Kansas, everybody expected a regular prayer, but this is not what they heard.

Roma, 20.05.2009


Lord, we come before you this day to ask forgiveness and ask for your address.
We know your Word says, 'Damn those who call good what is bad' and that is exactly what we did. We lost the spiritual balance and we have changed our values.

We have exploited the poor and called it a luck.

We have rewarded laziness and we have called it social.

We have killed our children yet unborn and we have called it freedom of choice

We have killed our people and we have called it justice

We have been remiss to discipline our children and we have called it develop self-esteem

We have abused power and called it political

We have coveted our neighbour’s property and that we've called ambition'

We have polluted the airwaves and television with great rudeness and pornography, and we have called it freedom of expression

We have ridiculed the values established long ago by our ancestors and what we have called it obsolete past

Oh God, look deep in our hearts, and purify us and free us from our sins.

Amen.

by Joe Wrigh

The reaction was immediate. A deputy abandoned the room during the prayer. Other three criticized the prayer of the Pastor calling it as a message of intolerance .
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