‘God calling us’

Oklahoma’s freshman congressman shares his stance on issues facing the nation.

News
Clifton Adcock
“This is not courage; this is just obedience. This is what we (Lankford and his wife) sense God calling us to do, and we’re just doing it,” Lankford said. “We came to a point about a year and a half ago where we knew we would be grandparents one day telling our grandchildren about the time we didn’t follow God if we don’t do this.

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Oklahoma AG likens anti-abortion struggle to abolition fight

'We should be fighting that the 14th Amendment says no person should be deprived of life without process of law,' Scott Pruitt says.

News
Clifton Adcock
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt likened the campaign of anti-abortion groups to the fight for the abolition of slavery on July 28 during the recent Reclaiming America for Christ event at the First Baptist Church of Moore.

Friday, August 5, 2011

The debt deal

Oklahoma’s freshman congressman says the ‘war on debt’ is just getting started.

News
Clifton Adcock
The debt-ceiling fight that consumed politics and media for weeks came to a conclusion on Aug. 3 with President Barack Obama signing a hard-fought deal that would raise the nation’s credit limit and avoid default.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Reclamation project

What do John Wayne, John Birch, dinosaurs and the Pledge of Allegiance have in common? They were all in the house at Reclaiming America for Christ.

News
Clifton Adcock
The intersection of politics, nationalism and religion is often seen as no man’s land.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Calling Rep. Lankford

Letters to the Editor
D.W. Tiffee
I see that U.S. Rep. James Lankford, R-Okla., is once again misrepresenting legislation, claiming that “The debt deal” (News, Clifton Adcock, Gazette) requires either a constitutional balanced budget amendment or “a proposal to cut $1.5 trillion in spending.”

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Lankford and the Bush trifecta

Letters to the Editor
Nathaniel Batchelder
Regarding Clifton Adcock’s “The debt deal” (News, Aug. 10, Gazette):

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Diverse values

Letters to the Editor
Jeff Hamilton
Diversity has always been a factor of significance. That was the message of Jill Carroll as keynote speaker on “The Challenges of Religious Diversity” on Oct. 18 for the annual meeting of the Interfaith Alliance Foundation of Oklahoma.

Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Oil vey!

CFN
Gazette staff
It’s not as if President Obama and Oklahoma’s Republican lawmakers have been exactly chummy, but the White House’s rejection of a proposed oil pipeline connecting Canada to Texas has state politicians forgetting everything they might have learned in Anger Management 101.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Protect the Internet

Letters to the Editor
Brandon Wertz
On Jan. 18, many sites on the Internet either shut down or allowed limited access in an attempt to illustrate the potential oppression that could come from the proposed Internet regulations referred t

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Romney and religion

Will Mitt Romney’s Mormonism be a factor for Oklahoma voters in next Tuesday’s presidential primary?

News
Greg Horton
With the state’s Republican presidential primary Tuesday March 6, some observers wonder if voters in the so-called Bible Belt of Oklahoma will be influenced by the religion of Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who is Mormon.

Friday, February 24, 2012