Over the weekend, while I was conducting my bi-weekly hate read of The Oklahoman's editorial page, I stumbled across a piece that criticized the OK House Chaplain program at the Oklahoma Capitol. It's the program that allows legislators to nominate a faith leader to be the House’s Chaplain of the Week or Chaplain of the Day, and get in front of lawmakers and give Baptist sermons like this:
In case you haven't heard, the program has come under fire in the past few weeks after State Rep Chuck Strohm – the guy in charge of the program – asked legislators to only nominate a faith leader from “the representative’s own place of worship." Considering it's a unwritten rule that all Oklahoma lawmakers be, or at least pretend to be, Christians, this would exclude all other religious groups from participating in the program.
Anyway, The Oklahoman, which has been enabling and pandering to Christian religious zealots for over a century, thinks that is wrong.
Via NewsOK.com: