Inhofe Watch!

Still, with their emphasis on traditional family values, Republicans more often find themselves at odds with gays. Former Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina once called homosexuality "sickening." And Senator James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma once compared a gay business executive who had been nominated to an ambassadorship by President Bill Clinton to David Duke, a onetime Ku Klux Klan leader.

WASHINGTON — HRC Executive Director Elizabeth Birch today condemned Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Okla., for blocking all future Clinton administration nominations because he is upset over the recess appointment of openly gay philanthropist James C. Hormel as Ambassador to Luxembourg. Inhofe's churlish tirade and spectacular display of anti-gay discrimination underscores that raw prejudice was the sole reason Hormel wasn't confirmed, according to the Human Rights Campaign.

"Inhofe's temper tantrum is an embarrassment and indicative of the thinly veiled anti-gay discrimination that kept James Hormel from getting confirmed," said HRC Executive Director Elizabeth Birch. "The Senate's role in the confirmation process is to advise and consent. The framers of the Constitution never saw the process as a means in which to derail qualified nominees based on prejudice. Furthermore, Senator Inhofe does not seem to understand that there isn't a Constitutional right to place a hold on nominations."

Lord, STAND with Senator Inhofe. Make him UNMOVEABLE! Cause our Senators, too, to stand up for RIGHTEOUSNESS. Lord, AWAKEN Your Church! May your people REPENT for their SILENCE & ARISE to PROCLAIM YOUR WORD! Cause America to say NO! to the advancing homosexual agenda, lest sodomy destroy our nation and the guilt be charged to our account. In Jesus Name, AMEN! (Lev 18:22, 24-26; Ps 9:17; Pr 28:4; Jer 1:7-10; 23:22-23; Ez 3:18-19; 8:3-11; Dan 11:32-33; Mt 28:18-20; Rom 1:16; Tit 2:11-12)

Sen. James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican, gave a speech in the Senate and asserted that Israel is "entitled" to the West Bank. He also chastised those within the United States who have urged Israeli restraint, blaming them for 9/11. "One of the reason I believe the spiritual door was opened for an attack against the United States of America," Inhofe huffed, "is that the policy of our government has been to ask the Israelis, and demand it with pressure, not to retaliate in a significant way against the terrorist strikes that have been launched against them."

"Because God said so.... Look it up in the book of Genesis.... In Genesis 13:14-17, the Bible says: 'the Lord said to Abram [later known as Abraham], "Lift up now your eyes, and look from the place where you are northward, and southward, and eastward and westward: for all the land which you see, to you I will give it, and to your seed forever.... Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it; for I will give it to thee."'"