by Sean Murphey | AP | Washington Post | Mar 7, 2018 | In The News
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma’s House speaker said Wednesday he plans changes to a program in which pastors deliver prayers and sermons to legislators amid criticism from interfaith leaders and some members that non-Christians are being denied an opportunity to...
by Ginnie Graham, Editorial Writer | Tulsa World | Mar 1, 2018 | In The News
Rather than open up the legislative House prayer to more voices of faith as suggested by constituents across Oklahoma, the reaction is to narrow it to one. Leave it to the Oklahoma Legislature for something that could be resolved with simple diplomacy to spiral into...
by Arnold Hamilton | the Journal Record | Mar 1, 2018 | In The News
Heaven knows the Oklahoma Legislature needs all the prayers it can get. So why take an instrument of peace and harmony – the House chaplain-of-the-day – and transform it into a weapon of political and religious war? Especially at a time when a divisive, ongoing fiscal...
by Carla Hinton | NewsOK | Feb 28, 2018 | In The News
A chaplain program at the state Capitol is being changed once again, this time to follow a model used by the U.S. Congress. In a prepared statement distributed Tuesday, Rep. Chuck Strohm, R-Jenks, who oversees the House Chaplain of the Day/Chaplain of the Week...
by KFOR-TV & K. QUERRY | Oklahoma's News 4 | Feb 26, 2018 | In The News
OKLAHOMA CITY – Leaders from all different faiths headed to the Oklahoma State Capitol on Monday to get clarification on a change that they say would exclude non-Christians from leading legislators in prayer. According to a letter obtained by CAIR Oklahoma, Rep....
