Has the ACLU heard about this?
Lubbock is considered a very conservative town in Texas. Its main attraction is Texas Tech University, considered more conservative now than Baylor, SMU, Texas A&M and Texas Christian University. My son, who plans to go to seminary after his undergrad degree, starts there this fall along with 4 friends from our church.
Didn't they just caught a fish with human-like teeth in or near Lubbock, TX? It was on FR another day. Traditionally, monsters, signs and prodigies like that surely demand more than a day of prayer - Lubbock needs to declare public fasting, and have penitential processions with flagellations and hair-shirts. The processions are to be barefooted and ought to proceed on their knees, too.
At last, some sanity in government! Prayers offered up for their wishes to be answered.
As my dad once told me as we were driving across the flat plains of West Texas towards Lubbock: "Texans spend 80% praying for it to rain, and 20% praying for it to stop; once it starts to rain, it doesn't want to stop."
If you pray for rain...you had better be caring an umbrella.
If it rains right after the air is full of dust, it rains red mud.
Could I give them some direction for their prayer? Over here in Southeast Texas we've been drenched all summer. Just ask God to move the rain from here to there; please.
I hope no city employees, on the clock or on city property engage in this. If so, someone will be sure to file a suit for Separation of Church and State, even if it rains, finally.
Maybe the ACLU will succeed to having a restraining order issued against the rain, should it start coming down.
They're rioting in Africa.
They're starving in Spain.
There's hurricanes in Florida
And Texas needs rain.
The world is just full
Of unhappy souls.
The French hate the Germans.
The Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs.
South Africans hate the Dutch.
And I don't Democrats very much.
Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
The comments on the UPI post are telling. There's scorn and mocking and ridicule and even a little Bush Derangement Syndrome thrown in for good measure.
It all proves once again: The left can tolerate anything but a God Fearing type.
Perhaps they can pray to God to give them the sense to stop trying to grow cotton in the steppe. Texas cotton rakes in the subsidies from the feds.
He's passed up this opportunity before, maybe this time He'll decide to intervene... but I doubt it.
Also, didn't the Aztecs used to do this, too?
America needs more reservoirs.