A preacher in North Carolina was fired for doing the unthinkable. He mentioned “Jesus.” No, he didn’t use the name of the Lord in vain, he invoked Jesus’ name at a moment that you’d never expect it…at the end of a prayer. Pastor Ron Baity was invited to lead prayer for a week at the North Carolina State House of Representatives this summer, but had to have his prayers pre-approved by the bureaucracy:
Baity’s troubles began during the week of May 31. He said a House clerk asked to see his prayer. The invocation including prayers for our military, state lawmakers and a petition to God asking him to bless North Carolina.”
“When I handed it to the lady, I watched her eyes and they immediately went right to the bottom of the page and the word Jesus,” he told FOX News Radio. “She said ‘We would prefer that you not use the name Jesus. We have some people here that can be offended.’”
When he politely declined to remove the fact that he was praying in Jesus’ name, he was no longer welcome to pray for the elected officials of North Carolina.
Once again, 1st amendment rights apply only to non-Christians and those of no religion at all. Christians are at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to equal rights, and they are the top target for the political correctness gestapo that seems to be running both private and public entities now. Not being able to say “Merry Christmas” in your office is the tip of the iceberg. Now, even your prayers have to be censored.
H/T to Jeremy Sarber for this one.
In Jesus’ name:
Our Father, who art in heaven,
hallowed be thy name;
Thy kingdom come;
Thy will be done,
on earth as it is in heaven.Give us this day our daily bread.
And forgive us our trespasses,
as we forgive those who trespass against us.
And lead us not into temptation;
but deliver us from evil.