
Democratic Representative Cory Williams: Representative, is rape the will of God?
Oklahoma State Representative George Faught: Well you know, if you read the Bible there’s actually a couple of circumstances where that happened, and the Lord uses all circumstances. I mean, you can go down that path, but it’s a reality, unfortunately.
CW: Is incest the will of God?
GF: Same answer – doesn’t deal with this bill.
CW: With all due respect, I think it absolutely is on point. You won’t make any exceptions for rape, you won’t make any exceptions for incest in this, and you are proffering divine intervention as the reason why you won’t do that. And so I think it is very important, this body wants to know – myself, personally – whether you believe rape and incest are actually the will of God.
GF: You know, it’s a great question to ask and obviously if it happens in someone’s life, it may not be the best thing that ever happened, you know, but – So you’re saying that God is not sovereign with every activity that happens in someone’s life and can’t use anything and everything in someone’s life, and I disagree with that.
I just don’t understand who this ‘God’ is.
My mind can only come up with one conclusion. Mr. Faught finds the acts of rape and/or incest to be acceptable and a ‘normal’ part of life as (his) God wills it.
This is most frightening.
I find it beyond frightening. I will refrain from stating here how strongly I feel about this. Thank you for posting this. We all need to be asking these questions.
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