Of Giants & Heroes: Joseph Silk

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It is truly an incredible thing and not, at this point in our experience, normative to have a senator, a faithful believer, a

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Christian senator, who will stand for the cause of justice in a consistent way like we have in Senator Joseph Silk.

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So in Oklahoma we have Senate Bill 13, which is a piece of legislation that I've authored that defines life beginning at conception, and the intentional taking of that life is considered first -degree murder.

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So it's a bill of abolition or total equal protection for the unborn. That's what we've got going on.

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It's waiting to be heard in the Health and Human Services Committee, and right now there's just a massive groundswell of support.

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There's people lobbying the legislature, there's a rally tomorrow, there's just a massive grassroots army getting behind this thing.

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A man who needs no introduction, the author of Senate Bill 13, Joseph Silk. As you guys can tell, the game of incrementalism that we've been playing for 47 years is completely over in Oklahoma.

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Oklahoma has not passed a bill to abolish abortion yet, but what the movement's already done in just a few short years has actually taken all the wind out of the sails of the pro -life movement.

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There is no excitement about incremental bills that do absolutely nothing anymore, and we've done that in a very, very short, short time.

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And looking at history, a movement like this, a movement like we've seen in the past three years, will not slow down, and it actually cannot be stopped.

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People like Joseph Silk, you know, don't just pop out of thin air. It takes the church of the living

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God to bring these truths to the magistrates, and Senator Silk responded positively within a few minutes of hearing this message.

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He was like, yeah, I'm on board, let's do this thing. When I first ran for Senate, one of the biggest issues was a life issue, and I was a typical pro -lifer at the time, and then

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I very quickly found out we have been doing the exact same thing. The pro -life movement's been doing the exact same thing for almost 50 years, have spent millions of dollars, have had hundreds of thousands of volunteers, and in the state of Oklahoma, we still kill 5 ,000 babies every year.

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You know, it's approximately 14 children are murdered every single day in the state of Oklahoma, and that is the, it's just an absolute atrocity.

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It's a genocide that we've got to stop. This is the time for the states to rise up and flex their sovereignty and stand for justice, because we have an administration that I do not believe is going to come after the state of Oklahoma.

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When I was first elected, somebody told me, they said, now be careful when you, they know who I am and they know how

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I operate, so they said, be careful, because culture and politics changes very, very slow.

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It's like molasses running across the table, which is typically the case, except for this movement.

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It is absolutely not slow, and it has spread like complete wildfire across the nation.

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Get part of the grassroots organizations who are sending out the talking points and directing people with who to talk to, when to talk to them, you know, freethestates .com

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and the Ecclesia of Oklahoma. They are engaging the Oklahoma legislature and kind of putting constituents in touch with their individual senators and house people.

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You want the residents of Oklahoma and nationwide to engage the Oklahoma legislature and let them know this is the movement, this is the direction it's going.