{"id":3847,"date":"2016-04-24T13:15:28","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T18:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/?p=3847"},"modified":"2016-05-19T20:03:45","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T01:03:45","slug":"prosperity-gospel-state-fisc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2016\/04\/24\/prosperity-gospel-state-fisc\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosperity Gospel at the Oklahoma State Fisc"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime soon,\u00a0Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin will either veto or\u00a0sign\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.oklegislature.gov\/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=sb1552&amp;Session=1600\">Senate Bill 1552<\/a>,\u00a0a bill designed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-oklahoma-abortion-idUSKCN0XJ29I\" target=\"_blank\">strip medical licensure<\/a> from all doctors who perform\u00a0abortion services. Quite\u00a0probably\u00a0she will sign it, resulting in an inevitable uphill\u00a0legal slog\u00a0for the state; civil libertarians will cite several decades of constitutional precedent in favor of preserving at least\u00a0some degree of bodily autonomy for women.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>These sort of legal battles can be expensive (constitutional lawyers don&#8217;t come cheap) and Oklahoma isn&#8217;t exactly rolling in dough at the moment. We need outside help to fight those nasty ACLU lawyers, and\u00a0State Representative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.okhouse.gov\/District.aspx?District=76\" target=\"_blank\">David Brumbaugh<\/a> (R-Broken Arrow)\u00a0encourages us to consider\u00a0a supernatural solution:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oklahoma GOPer suggests God will pay for costly legal battle over abortion ban <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/m9rT9CEBtJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/m9rT9CEBtJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/X9TLAsfbHM\">pic.twitter.com\/X9TLAsfbHM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Talking Points Memo (@TPM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPM\/status\/723598222694977538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Oklahoma Rep: God Will Pay Expenses &amp; Save Economy If We Ban Abortion        <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CLFrClN24T\">https:\/\/t.co\/CLFrClN24T<\/a> only in US at least I hope do\ud83d\ude08<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Mari R (@randlight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/randlight\/status\/724100932166807552?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rep. David Brumbaugh said &quot;If we take care of morality, God will take care of the economy.&quot; How is this man not OK&#39;s Secretary of Finance?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Fake Mary Fallin (@FakeMaryFallin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FakeMaryFallin\/status\/724100437662535680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 24, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I have on <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2016\/02\/11\/oklahoma-legislators-hope-to-breach-wall-of-separation\/\" target=\"_blank\">previous<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/2016\/03\/09\/oklahoma-legislature-works-to-oklahoma-bill-of-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\">occasions<\/a> written against the Oklahoma Legislature&#8217;s attempts to tear down the our existing wall of separation between church and state, which has stood proudly for\u00a0over a century of\u00a0statehood. I would\u00a0be happy\u00a0to reconsider my position, though, if the Lord God Almighty would see fit to\u00a0freely grant the state around\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/kfor.com\/2016\/02\/11\/officials-oklahomas-budget-shortfall-grows-to-1-3-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\">1.3 billion dollars<\/a>. It makes perfect sense, considering that Heaven is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Revelation+21%3A21&amp;version=KJV\" target=\"_blank\">reputedly cash-flush<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All I ask is that we get\u00a0the gold in advance, and that it doesn&#8217;t fall out of the sky like manna from heaven.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometime soon,\u00a0Oklahoma Governor Mary Fallin will either veto or\u00a0sign\u00a0Senate Bill 1552,\u00a0a bill designed to strip medical licensure from all doctors&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":3848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,11,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oklahoma","category-movement","category-theocracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/backgroundprobability\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}