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Angry Baptist Minister Makes Triumphant Return To Oklahoma Capitol

12:23 PM EST on March 2, 2018

Back in 2012, Bill Ledbetter – a Baptist minister from Durant – led a weekly devotional and invocation as the "Chaplain of the Week" for the Oklahoma House of Representatives.

It was pretty standard southern Baptist fear mongering. He blamed things like the teaching of science in public schools, gay marriage and America's rise as "a secular nation" for making our adorable loving God mad, and forcing Him to create things like 9/11, earthquakes and probably even a couple of sexually transmitted diseases as retribution: