Here is Tony Byrd, an extremist pastor, giving the invocation in the Georgia House of Representatives! Here is Rebecca from Wonkette, describing the following video:
First, this very gentle and mellow man, Rev. Tony Byrd of Zebulon Baptist Church in Toccoa, who appeared at the invitation of Rep. Michael Harden, talks about an atheist radio host (Marc Maron? Sam Seder?) and how America is a Christian nation for about 127 minutes; then the eye of God on the dollar bill; then urban warzones; then gay marriers and their un-Godly agenda; then ???; and finally, PROFIT! Nowhere does he actually seem to pray. OH WAIT! He does. For the last 45 seconds of his 11-minute invocation.
Exciting! Let us watch it together.
My favorite parts:
1. How he calls the Civil War the “war between the states.” That’s always funny. At least he didn’t cough out “War of Northern Aggression.”
2. A little after the seven minute mark, he’s ranting about how our streets have become war zones and the problems of violent crime like rape, and then all of a sudden he veers off into the fact that [horror!] several states are looking at legalizing marijuana. Then he mentions child pornography [bad] and then suddenly he’s ranting about gay marriage. These things are all connected, you see! You don’t? Well, you’re not a wingnut then.
3. And then, yes, at the very end, as Rebecca says, dude finally remembers to pray.
Like most false prophets, sadly, anti-gay activist Byrd’s sin of homophobia is more important to him than God.
Well, when a Georgian preacher starts quoting with approval what the NY state legislature said in 1837, I had to stop listening (oh, 4 min. mark.) I’m pretty sure the NY State legislature passed some anti-Georgia anti-slavery acts; it was a hotbed of abolitionists, and even women suffragists. And I’m positive that the New York State legislature enlisted and drafted tens of thousands of soldiers in 1860 to wreck justice on Georgia. And I’m 100% certain that U.S. Grant is buried in NYC after having done what he could to destroy the slave owning autocracy of Georgia. Meanwhile, in 1837 or thereabouts, the Georgia State legislature declared that blacks were slaves for good Biblical Christian reasons. Perhaps this good pastor is descended from the criminals that Oglethorpe took from England to help populate the new colony of Georgia.
I wonder if Byrd knows that the eye of God over the pyramid on the dollar bill is a Freemason symbol. Do wing-nuts approve of the Masons? I know the RC church does not (they are the only ones allowed to have a ‘secret society’).
I am totally shocked, and like puppets everybody stands up to pray. Where is their backbone? This is NOT what we want for our country. It is not right that sermons are given in our State Houses.
As they said in Wisconsin,
Whose House?
Our House!