[Announce] Discombobulating Republican congressional candidates

[Robert Waldrop]

I honestly did not set out to discombobulate the 
candidates for the Republican nomination for the 
Oklahoma City congressional seat.  I was actually 
targeting the state legislature.  But you know how 
weird politics can get.  This mp3 file

 http://www.bobwaldrop.net/GOP-debate-question.mp3

is a recording of the last question asked of the 
four candidates at a debate this week sponsored by 
the NW Oklahoma City Republican Club. And the 
Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House was the focus 
of that question.  It was sent to me as an 
attachment to an email by someone who attended the 
event, recorded it, and "thought I would be 
interested in hearing this."

In late March, I wrote and sent a religious tract 
to every member of the state legislature on the 
subject of immigration.  It asked  "Will your sins 
against the poor send you to HELL?"  You can read 
the full text at 
http://www.justpeace.org/immigration.htm .  It 
goes on to quote numerous scriptures from the 
Bible about immigration, widows, orphans, and our 
duties to them.

Obviously it was subversive stuff.  But then, I 
follow a man who once said, to a group of 
religious hypocrites in his day, "Tax collectors 
and prostitutes are going into the Kingdom of God 
before you."

The questioner (who may be the president of the 
group, that is a bit fuzzy in the information we 
received) distorted the message of this tract, he 
labeled it a "threatening letter", and seems to be 
implying that we were advocating that legislators 
be murdered. (!!!)

The four congressional candidates then rush to 
excoriate us hapless Catholic Workers for our 
impertinent suggestion that they were notorious 
public sinners due to their support of the present 
pogrom being waged against immigrant workers by 
various factions of the United States ruling 
elites.  I guess they believe the Bible is God's 
Word EXCEPT for all the parts that disagree with 
their various political platforms.

It may be that tax collectors and prostitutes will 
indeed get to heaven before these Oklahoma 
politicians.

Bob Waldrop
Oscar Romero Catholic Worker House in Oklahoma 
City
www.justpeace.org