I regularly read the New York Times and the Washington Post. I want to know how the radical left thinks and operates.
On the heels of the Oklahoma women’s softball team winning their 6th National Championship at Hall of Fame Park in Oklahoma City, the Washington Post and the New York Times had a lot to do say about Oklahoma City.
Both the Times and the Posts advocated moving the Women’s College World Series from Oklahoma City.
Why?
Because the State of Oklahoma does not allow abortion.
That’s right. Rather than write about the incredibly dominant OU softball, or even about the stellar character of the girls who play the Oklahoma Women’s Softball team, sportswriter Billy Witz wrote that OKC should not be allowed to host the World Series anymore.
THE NY TIMES in OKC
Reporter Witz came to OKC and singled out head coach Patty Gasso, and said:
“I was speaking with some parents that raised questions about the impending repeal of Roe v. Wade of, you know — they may not necessarily be comfortable sending their daughters to places where there’s anti-abortion bills, like there is in Oklahoma.”
No question. Just a statement. No sports reporting, simply liberal left activism.
It’s time the people of Oklahoma push back against the liberal agenda, and push back hard.
Having an abortion is not a constitutional right. In fact, abortion violates the unalienable right to life.
Unalienable is a big word. Let me break it down. “Un-a-lien-able.” Pronounce it using four syllables. A “lien” is a right to keep possession of something belonging to another person until a debt owed to that person is discharged. LIFE is an un-a-lien-able right. LIFE can’t be lawfully taken away (a doctor taking the life of a child by abortion) or given away (a woman giving away the life of a child by abortion).
Oklahoma is following the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States by banning abortion. This summer, the Supreme Court will affirm the moral rightness of preventing the taking of an unalienable life by abortion.
THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Our Founding Document of the United States, the Declaration of Independence, declares:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,
In the Supreme Court’s Initial Draft that was leaked to the press, Justice Alito writes on behalf of the majority and declares:
“We hold that Roe (v. Wade) and Casey must be overruled.”
“Must be overruled,” Alito writes.
We are a land of Law. The Constitution of the United States is the Law of the Land. It is based on the Declaration of Independence, the Laws of Nature, and trust in Nature’s God.
OKLAHOMA IS FULL OF LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS
The people of Oklahoma City, the politicians of Oklahoma, and the women’s athletes on the University of Oklahoma’s softball team take the Declaration of Independence and the Consitution of the United States seriously.
In nature, offspring are zealously protected.
Only humans seem to have the moral ability to rebel against the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God. We know from Scripture, that any people who rebel against those Laws will face eventually face plagues, famine, and war.
“Therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, because you have defiled me by your detestable practices…I myself will shave you; I will not look on your with pity or spare you. A third of your people will die of the pandemic or famine, a third will fall by the sword of war, and a third of you will be scattered to the winds” (Ezekiel 5:11-14).
So I find it interesting that sports writers are advocating for unconsitutional abortions and then threatening to move the Women’s College World Series from Oklahoma City.
It’s not going to happen.
Oklahomans understand the value of a human life is signifcalty more important than that of the life of a bald eagle. We’ll not let the government get by with fining and imprisoning people for destroying a bald eagle EGG and celebrate the destruction of a fertilized human embryo.
America is waking up to the hijacking of our country and our Constitution. Those of us who live in Oklahoma love our softball, but we love the Constitution even more.
See you in 2023 for another phenomenal College World Series.
Wade,
what would be a good option for a parent of a young college student who WAS seriously worried about ‘total’ restrictions on abortion eliminating all emergency procedures to save the life of their daughter (such as an ectopic pregnancy emergency)?
Admittedly, I do not know the EXTENT of Oklahoma’s new abortion restrictions,
but, if they are politically-based, they are likely to be ‘extreme’ in excluding consideration for preserving the life of the mother in medical emergencies.
What is the case in Oklahoma? There ARE, as you know, some people of faith who do believe that a mother’s life needs to be preserved in a medical emergency, especially where the pregnancy cannot survive the emergency. I do not understand the Governor’s ‘intent’ on this issue.
Can you help to clarify it ?
Wade,
Hooray for Oklahoma for not allowing abortions!
The Texas Heartbeat Act of September 1, 2021 prevents an abortion after a baby is six weeks old. The act authorizes members of the public to sue anyone for $10,000 who performs an illegal abortion.
CHRISTIANE, you don’t seem happy about what Oklahoma has done.
CHRISTIANE,
“…Mary was engaged to be married to Joseph…she became pregnant…Joseph did not want to disgrace her…” (Matthew 1:18-19 NLT)
CHRISTIANE, if abortion was a common practice in those days, do you think Joseph might have had Mary to have an abortion? (Pretty wild, huh?)
Hi REX RAY,
I’m confused about the CURRENT state of the law on abortion in Oklahoma. From what I have read, it seems to be still in the process of being changed.
I thought Wade might know more about it.
Rex Ray, it would be difficult for me to form any opinion when decisions are made affecting peoples’ lives that are politically motivated especially if the ‘laws’ kept changing according to political expediency. When the life of the mother is no longer ‘of value’, then we know an abortion law has slipped into the area of misogyny, especially when there is an ectopic pregnancy that the fetus itself cannot possibly survive.
I think most people hate the tragedy of abortion, myself included; but what is happening on the ‘far right’ has very little to do with welcoming new life in a way that supports new parents, sadly. I’d like to see that change for the better. But it would be costly financially. Still, if it helps even in one case, the expense would be worth it in a land that VALUED new life.
Hope you are doing well these days. The heat must be bad in your area at this time of year. Stay safe.
c.
CHRISTIANE,
Yes, it’s hot in Texas and since we’re only a few miles south of Oklahoma, that means Wade has the air-condition on also. (As kids, how did we survive without it? I remember sleeping outside on a blanket at night.)
My son, Joe and his wife are staying with us a while. On a ten-acre lake, we have a 20 X 40-foot dock that’s supported by plastic barrels. Recently, the 30-foot walk-way to it, ‘bent’ into the water because there were too many people on it.
I’d planned to fill three barrels with water, place them under the walk-way, then fill them with air to ‘unbend’ the walk-way. We’d use a gas operated electric generator to run an air compressor to fill the barrels with air. But Joe convinced me to pull the dock under the walkway and put barrels under it. That meant the long cables keeping the dock in place, had to be released which turned into a disaster.
Now the dock and walk-way are side by side and 20 feet apart. Judy has suggested we use our small boat that has a motor to get them back as they should be. We’ll try that tomorrow.
From the law an illegal abortion is defined as: “3) taking life of viable fetus unless necessary to preserve life, health of mother or failure to provide medical aid to fetus; purposeful termination of a human pregnancy with intent other than to produce a live birth or remove a dead fetus. ” (https://www.findlaw.com/state/oklahoma-law/oklahoma-abortion-laws.html)
Therefore, an ectopic pregnancy which provides grave danger to the life of the mother, has a high risk of fetal malformation would not be an illegal abortion in the state of OK.
Everyone is hot to talk about a woman’s “right” to abortion and refuses to talk about the slippery slope that NY state took in codifying infanticide (allowing abortion to term). OK DOES allow abortion after fetal heartbeat to protect the life and health of the mother.
WRT to the college student, I am left wondering a few things: 1. What happened to morals where we expected sex to be confined to marriage? 2. What happened to birth control if number 1 isn’t going to be followed? 3. The abortion question is a slippery slope that the left has taken all the way down to infanticide in the state of NY. Therefore, I ask, at what point in pregnancy should we teach young men and women that taking human life is OK?
sounds like a plan, REX RAY
I’m glad you have more family staying with you now, even if it’s temporary. Family can help out. Take care with using any kind of electricity near the lake water, but you know that already. 🙂
sometimes for people to ‘look only to Jesus’, they have to set aside the ‘labels’ and put down the stones . . . . . it’s not the same as saying ‘it’s ‘okay’ to sin’ so much as the good-faith wish to honor the will of God that we ‘stop the pointing of the finger’
that is what I see in that parable of the Pharisee and the Publican in the temple
Those ‘labels’? There is only ONE label that matters: we are all of us humans formed in the imago Dei and blessed by Him with a soul, and that is the basis for our dignity as human persons in this world . . . . a ‘child of God’ is the only ‘label that makes sense in the light of Creation and how it is unfolding before us AND IN US, that we are given ‘choice’ and asked to go to the Crossroads and choose ‘the good way’ as directed by our God-given consciences
only God knows our hearts –
too many of us think we know who is ‘the sheep’ and who is ‘the goat’, but we don’t know, do we? we cannot ‘know’ in the way that God Himself can see the over-all picture into the whole journey of even one person in this world and judge with great justice and great compassion the ones among us whose weary journeys have intensely wounded their spirits by negative forces at work far beyond what they themselves willed . . . . we just cannot know these deep things of God . . . . . I think the Publican in the temple understood this and the God of all mercies justified him accordingly
was the Publican a ‘liberal’ or a ‘conservative’ in modern terms? Or just someone whose humility opened him to God’s grace???
I tire of ‘labels’, but I still am human and of my time, but I see the harm they have done to divide, not by healthy boundaries, but by deep divisions formed far more out of self-righteous ‘Pharisee’ types as I regard ‘that other sinner’ and point by own finger without thinking ‘what am I doing?’ What am I doing?
May God have mercy on our foolish ways.
CHRISTIANE,
Today, as Joe and I matched the two walkway’s hinges to the dock’s hinges, Judy hammered in the bolts that held them together. Joe said, his idea to take them apart and put the walkway on top of the dock was bad. (I couldn’t have agreed more.) He filled five barrels with water and put them under the walkway; then filled them with air.
Joe, his wife, Beth, and their dog are going back home today. (Our cat will be happy since she’s been confined to our bedroom.)
“He filled five barrels with water and put them under the walkway; then filled them with air.”
smart move, this
Sorry your family will be going so soon, but I’m sure you’ve enjoyed their company. Judy sounds like a power-house of a worker, just like my sister-in-law Bonny who drives a little bull-dozer to clean the muck out from underneath the bridge that is on their land in the country.
Bonny wanted the bull-dozer for Christmas one year, and my goodness, my brother bought it for her. She was thrilled. Good to have people in the family who can figure out how to get things done. 🙂
About those labels ‘liberal’ / ‘conservative/ left / right, some thoughts:
Those ‘labels’? There is only ONE label that matters: we are all of us humans formed in the imago Dei and blessed by Him with a soul, and that is the basis for our dignity as human persons in this world . . . . a ‘child of God’ is the only ‘label that makes sense in the light of Creation and how it is unfolding before us AND IN US, that we are given ‘choice’ and asked to go to the Crossroads and choose ‘the good way’ as directed by our God-given consciences
only God knows our hearts –
too many of us think we know who is ‘the sheep’ and who is ‘the goat’, but we don’t know, do we? we cannot ‘know’ in the way that God Himself can see the over-all picture into the whole journey of even one person in this world and judge with great justice and great compassion the ones among us whose weary journeys have intensely wounded their spirits by negative forces at work far beyond what they themselves willed . . . . we just cannot know these deep things of God . . . . . I think the Publican in the temple understood this and the God of all mercies justified him accordingly
was the Publican a ‘liberal’ or a ‘conservative’ in modern terms? Or just someone whose humility opened him to God’s grace???
I tire of ‘labels’, but I still am human and of my time, but I see the harm they have done to divide, not by healthy boundaries, but by deep divisions formed far more out of self-righteous ‘Pharisee’ types as I regard ‘that other sinner’ and point by own finger without thinking ‘what am I doing?’ What am I doing?
May God have mercy on our foolish ways.
CHRISTIANE,
Not any work was done on the walkway the last two days, as a dumb person (me) got my pickup stuck in mud trying to cross the spillway. Today, Judy was the hero as she pulled it out with her car.
Good for Judy – you are blessed in your choice of spouse, REX RAY
and happy Father’s Day to you and to all who read here 🙂
CHRISTIANE,
I sure won’t argue with you on what you said about Judy. 😊
Before it gets too hot tomorrow, Judy and I plan to add two boards to the walkway that goes to the dock. The ‘treated’ boards are 2” by 12” and 8 feet long. (Are you sitting down?) They cost $88. No wonder not many houses are being built these days.
Just read “Mike Geary’s Nutrition Watchdog Ezine”. He states eating eggs are good for you. I’ve eaten 42 eggs a week for over 20 years.
REX RAY,
I believe you about the price of the treated wood. Even in the ‘old days’, it wasn’t cheap, but $ 88 is outrageous !!!
My son is in the market for a house near the ocean. Problem is that everytime he bids on one, there is a ‘bidding war’ and the houses are selling for sometimes over $200 K more than the asking prices.
I just went grocery shopping . . . . now THAT was a shock ! The inflation is fierce. My son is going to buy an electric car after they have found a house. Yep, the gas prices . . . whoah !
I’m alternating between eggs for protein one day and salmon for protein the next until I get weighed at the doctors office . . . . I know eggs are good food. And they are not yet ‘over-priced’, thank God.
I wish I was still living out in the country by the Mennonite dairy! They sold the best of everything . . . . . fresh, including their home-make ice cream. Good memories 🙂
Well, you all stay cool and out of the late-day sun.
CHRISTIANE,
Wow! Houses selling for two hundred thousand more than the asking price; that’s amazing. Maybe that’s the reason these people from California bought the large house across the road from us two weeks ago. I won’t forget his name since it’s Adam.
The previous owners are enjoying heaven now. Before I added the slide, I had a tower. He asked why I’d made it. I told him I was going to watch him with a telescope. He replied, “Well, I’m going to be looking back at you through my scope and it’s on a rifle!”
Today, Judy and I felt like the guys that had plans to drain the swamp but found themselves waist-deep in alligators. We were going to add the $88 planks, but found the walkway was at a 45-degree angle. (A cable that kept it straight had come unfastened.)
The bank was so steep, I couldn’t get down even with my cane. So, I gave Judy instructions, and with the aid of a ‘come-along’, she pulled it back in place. Then we added the planks.
CHRISTIANE,
Do you remember Digger Odell and the way he’d end a story; (What a revolting development that turned out to be.)
Well, that’s how this story started. This morning as I entered the bathroom, I couldn’t understand what the noise was until I went in, and water hit me as hard as taking a shower. Water from a deteriorated hose was hitting the ceiling so fast it knocked the paint off. The hose that was connected to the commode had deteriorated. Fortunate, it had a cut-off, but not before there was an inch of water on the floor.
I bought a new hose, and we’re back in business again. Most of the work was getting me on the floor and back up.
REX RAY,
I learned the hard way that whenever you hear a weird noise, best to go and investigate . . . . or ‘else’ !
This practice has saved me a lot of grief.
Next time you get an inch of water on your floors, use a ‘shop-vac’ to vacuum up the water. Well, at least hire someone to do it for you so you don’t by accident get electrocuted. More trouble!
As for getting down on the floor and back up again, I also sympathize. It’s been a while since I could that comfortably. Back to yoga class? No, that ship has sailed. Mostly some weight loss is advised in my situation, which I know will help greatly. 🙂
Lots of news today, but I still don’t know all of the ‘implications’ of how the states will come to terms with it. I think we will see ‘reaction’ of the public at the polls. I’m interested in how people will respond and in how ‘political’ things will get over the SCOTUS ruling today. Hopefully, there will be some common sense seen among those who have the responsibility to make laws and to enforce them. Hopefully.