Family Research Council Prays, but Stupidly

As everyone is aware, a BIG US Supreme Court case is coming up.

The Family Research Council (always be wary of organizations with ‘Family’ in the name), has set up a prayer target. Here’s the link to the site.

In their request for prayer they are asking for prayers for the following

May God guide us in praying for each member of the Supreme Court: for Samuel Alito,Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Elena Kagan, Anthony Kennedy, Chief JusticeJohn Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Sonia Sotomayor, and Clarence Thomas. May each Justice be governed by the fear of God and fidelity to the moral law and Constitution (2 Sam 23:3; Ps 9:17; 111:10; Pr 1:7; 9:10; Is 5:20).

May the attorneys defending traditional marriage (see ADF Prayer Guide) be given anointing, clarity, effectiveness, conviction and persuasiveness in presenting their arguments. May traditional marriage prevail in the minds of a strong majority of the justices, and may traditional marriage be reaffirmed as the law of the land (Pr 16:1, 11; 25; 18:17; 21:3; Is 9:7; Mt 19:4-6; 2 Cor 5:11).

May those arguing on behalf of same-sex “marriage” present their arguments in an inept, confusing and unconvincing way. May they fail to gain traction in the minds of the Justices. May the right of Californians to amend their state constitution to protect marriage be confirmed by the Court, and may the Defense of Marriage Act be ruled constitutional (Lev 20:all; 1 Sam 2:8-10; 2 Chr 14:11; 20:12-27; Pr 22:28; 24:21; Is 8:18-20; Dan 7:25-27; 2 Cor 2:5).

This leads me to a number of questions for the FRC.

Are your arguments so pathetic that the only real hope you have is to have the pro-equality (yes, notice the shift in language there) lawyers be ‘inept, confusing, and unconvincing’? Where, exactly, in the Constitution does that document give power to any group within the US government to determine what marriage is? What, exactly, is moral law? Why should judges be fearful of an all-loving god? Finally, and perhaps most importantly, if god really is all powerful and really does answer the prayers of the true believer as the Bible says (“Ask anything in My name and it will be done”) then…

Why are you wasting time on praying for a court case? Why don’t you just pray that people not be gay or that the entire US government become a theocratic body and the courts dissolved and replaced with prayer circles of people with stones to throw? Or something else that is really what you want, but are too chicken to say it out loud.

Seriously, why don’t you just pray to kill all the unbelievers? God’s done it several times before. He’s destroyed cities, countries, even everything on the entire planet. He ought to be pretty accurate by now. We all know that what you wackos really want.

Why don’t you just pray that your church leaders wake up and are the President, and the SC judges, and legislators? Wouldn’t that be easier than trying to pray about each, individual little detail. You could make it all go away with one prayer. “God, put us in charge.” Screw elections, you guys are steadily losing them. It’s going to take divine intervention to get back a majority and a president at this point.

I actually do understand why you don’t pray for these types of things.

It’s the exact same reason you don’t pray that amputees be healed, but do pray for people with cancer. It’s the reason you pray for rain, but not for crops to grow without the need of rain. It’s the same reason you pray for strength to believe and not for evidence of your god.

Deep down, in your heart of hearts, you really don’t believe. You really don’t believe that you can ‘pray away the gay’. You really don’t believe that god will grow crops without rain. You really don’t believe that god will cure amputees.

You don’t believe in your own god enough to pray for the things you really want and things that will show everyone his power (or lack thereof). So instead, you insult your god, your own beliefs, and every thinking person around you by prayer for these piddling little details that god doesn’t have to actually show himself to deal with.

If those arguing on behalf of gay-marriage stutter in their delivery, will you cheer and take that as evidence that god is answering your prayers?

Let’s say you guys pray and pray and pray. And DOMA is still ruled unconstitutional. Will you accept that your god is trying to tell you something? Maybe equality, fairness, and love is more important than hate, bigotry, and your own idiocy? Or will you continue to beat a dead horse that no one cares about anymore?

You pray for tiny things, because deep down you know that there is no god. That voice you hear is your own ignorance, bigotry, hate, and fear. It’s not god. It’s the voice of cowardice. It’s the tiny little voice that’s too afraid that it might not control everything on this Earth.

And it scares you to death.

You won’t pray for what you really want because if it doesn’t happen, everyone (including you) will finally have to admit that prayer doesn’t work. It doesn’t matter if god exists or not. You can still believe in him, no one cares. But you will have to finally admit that he doesn’t answer prayers.