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I told him, we're not passing
a micro round and then we're not giving

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it's not our open for so it's
information home. Um, my name is

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Caleb and I am I'm a pastor, and so I'm going to do my

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best to be as brief as possible. But you know how that goes,

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of course, because I'm a Baptist
Pastor's so thank you. But here's what

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I wanted. Here's my agenda,
here's my my goal. I'm going to

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be as transparent as possible. I
have one agenda and it's advanced the Kingdom

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of Gord Jesus Christ. That's it. I'm not here on behalf of the

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political party. I don't care about
any of those things. What I care

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about is the Lord Jesus Christ.
I was asked to share tonight, and

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I will always talk about Jesus in
any opportunity that I'm giving. So here

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I am Matthew. Chapter five gives
us a very clear indicator that we ask

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Christ followers are to be salt and
light. This is a picture that's an

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illustration. Salt is a preserving agent. It is to keep things from becoming

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bad or rotten. That's the idea. That's the purpose Christians are to preserve

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holiness, Biblical holiness, and I'm
talking about cultural ideas. I'm talking about

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biblical holiness and godliness. That's our
objective and that's our goal period as christ

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followers. If we're trying to do
anything else, it's going to be a

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problem. And so light light is
another illustration here. Light scatters and darkness.

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As Christians, we hold the light
of the Gospel that dispels the darkness

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of sin, of wickedness, of
depravity. We offer hope and his name

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is the Lord Jesus Christ. In
Judges chapter six, verses twenty five,

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twenty six, there is a story
about a god in Ginea and Idian has

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a calling from the Lord, and
that calling specifically is to tear down the

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altar of Bail and Astra. These
are two false gods, false ideologies,

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and they're not just stuck in the
Old Testament. They're not. They don't

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just live there. They continue on
in twenty twenty three. Yes, the

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idea of bail because here context is
King. So we need to have some

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history here. These gods Bail and
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Astra was the goddess of sexual activity
and fertility, and bail was the

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god of child sacrifice. Now in
twenty twenty three, children are still being

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sacrificed. They're still being sacrificed at
the altar of both of these gods.

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But yet they don't look like the
primitive altars of the Old Testament. They

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look progressive, they look fancy,
they look shining, they look pretty.

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I'm telling you this is this is
the problem in the world today that we

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have ignored the God of the Bible
for far too long. We've ignored the

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scriptures for far too long, and
it is affecting men, women, boys

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and girls Christian regardless of the cultural
dictates. We have a mandate that calls

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us to preserve righteousness and dispel darkness. And the only way that's done is

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through the Gospel, the Lord Jesus
Christ. It is not done through a

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political action party. It is not
done through anything else other than the preaching

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of the Gospel of Romans. Chapter
one, verse sixteen says that I am

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on a shame of the Gospel because
it has the power under salvation. That's

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it, that's the pown. You
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You change their behavior from transforming their
heart. And the only way someone's

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heart is transformed is when the Gospel
penetrates a hard and transforms them from one

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degree of glory to another. Some
people might say, well, Caleb,

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you sound like you're trying to advance
in a theocracy here. We don't live

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under a theocracy. Well, the
fact of the matter is that we actually

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do live under a theocracy. Most
of us submiss them them. The theocracy

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that we love under is a hedonistic
system of humanism, unbridled worship of our

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self. That's where we live.
This is being portrayed and displayed all over

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in the public square. Human beings
are being indoctrinating by the immoral, false

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god of a human of humanism.
And if we truly believe that this is

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not taking place, we're either a
not paying attention or being deceived. Either

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either way, they end up harming
you and these few period. So in

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closing, I'm calling us in the
room this evening to follow. The mandate

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in the first printis Chapter sixteen,
Verse thirteen or fourteen says be watchful,

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stand firm in the faith, act
like men, be strong, and let

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everything you do be done in love. Now, what is the most loving

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thing that you can do. If
I'm heading towards if I see you and

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you're walking towards a ravine and you're
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step over to the edge, and
you're gonna fall hundreds of feet down to

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jagged rocks below. What's the most
loving thing? And you have your eyes

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closed to it and you don't see
it, and I stand over in the

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corner and do nothing. I say, nothing is that loving? No?

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No, If I was standing over
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no Wana road over here, we
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giant semi truck heading towards you,
and I said, nothing is that loving?

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Now? Here's what we have,
a semist. This is not my

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idea. These are not my ideas. These ideas were brought about by oh

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Lord Jesus Christ, not by Caling
Gordon. I'm just reading the text.

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The text is King, not my
opinion. The text is King. Now,

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if I'm standing in the middle of
the road and there is a giant

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bus coming at me, and Dustin
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out of the way, And I
say, Dustin, you're just being a

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big age. You're just being hateful, You're just being unloving. And he

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said, no, no, no, Calin, I'm not doing that at

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all. There is a bus about
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That's the most loving thing he can
do is to tell me that there is

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something coming. And I'm telling you
what's coming is a God who will be

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a exacting wrath on sin. Period. And I don't say that with glee.

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I don't say that with joy.
But I'm telling you there's hope.

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Here's the hope that Jesus gave it
to us. He says, behold,

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the Kingdom of God is at hand. Repent of your sins and believe the

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good news. What's the good news
That Jesus Christ died on the cross.

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He came and he lived the perfect
life. He died on the cross for

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your sin, for my sin.
He took every ounce of sin on his

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lovely head. He died for you. He was put in the grave,

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and he was late there for three
days. But thank God amen that three

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days later he came up out of
that grave. And now we have a

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justify. We are justified. We
have justification before only God. Now what

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is that? What is just as
if I've never sinned. We have the

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ability to stand before God, not
because I've lost them, but because I'm

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forgiven. First, John, how
get that? How do you put about

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form? First? You don't love
that? Said? If you can bless

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yourselves that He Jesus is faithful and
just to for you and de cleanse you

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from all of your own all of
it, that's the hope we have here,

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the seven I mean in fight up. SMITHA. Williamson, h Well,

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I just want to say yes and
amen to all that or not bless

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my heart to hear that. Um, Well, my name is Smith Williamson,

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and I think you barns well about
a year and a half now,

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and I have loved it. I've
read a lot of different places in my

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twenty two years of wife and so
that says a lot for Barnettsville. Um,

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it's been a great place to live
until recently. And the reason I

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hear is my hope is to just
bring some wide and some clarity to what's

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transpired lately with the drag show that
everyone's aware of that happening, but specifically

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brings some light to the agreement that
was passed at the meeting this past month

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in April the agreement between the city
and OKQ. So three councilmen voted yes

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on this agreement, causing it to
pass. And this was unacceptable as the

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agreement was flawed and insufficient to fulfill
the requests of the people and actually the

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vote of the council, as they
sent our attorney for our hundred twenty days

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to draft ordinances to define obscenity and
regulate adult entertainment in Barnsville, and after

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ninety days he brought this agreement,
and given its clear insufficiency, the council

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should have voted no, and they
should have requested the attorney to take the

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remaining thirty days left to draft something
better and that would be sufficient to the

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wishes to people and the vote the
council in January. But I'd just like

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to go into some of the issues
in the agreement as I've studied it,

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and I'm no lawyer. I don't
have college agree in this, but I

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just read through and found these laws
that I believe part of the negligence of

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the council is that they did not
properly look at this and really consider what

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they were voting on. And I
think that's negligent and another reason that they

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should not be our leaders. So
the main claim you'll hear from those who

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support the agreement and support these three
councilors they voted yes on it. Their

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claim is the agreement is good because
government should be slow and they should take

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time to carefully assess things before taking
action. This is not what this agreement

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does actually, and sorry, hold
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here. So yeah, for government
to move slowly, they should have taken

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more time to consider this agreement and
taken those thirty remaining days. So firstly,

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the first of law that I saw
is that the agreement is between oka

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EQ and the city. And the
issue here is that not as insufficient as

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it does not regulate any other organizations
or individuals in regards to Vidule entertainment.

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So another group or individual that is
not associated with ok EQ decided to host

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a drag show in the public square, they could do it, and you

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have this whole debac going again.
And this agreement holds no power to regulate

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other organizations. So I don't understand
how this happened because that's that's very insufficient

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for the issue. It can if
another individual even me could host a drag

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show and this agreement doesn't regulate me
at all, ly regulates one special interest

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for you. And then secondly,
the agreement actually states quote, during the

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term of the agreement, the city
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draft performances or adult entertainment. So, in other words, by passing agreemage,

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the council has hog type themselves and
cannot regulate any adult entertainment or dract

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performances for the term of the agreement, which makes no sense because our people

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showed up in masses requesting for regulations
on adual entertainment and the agreement says we

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agree to not regulate adult entertainment for
a year, which I don't know about

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y'all, but that doesn't again those
to me. Thirdly, I have a

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question for you all, the concerned
citizens of Bartlesville. You came before the

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council for months on end to express
your concerns. You've implored the council on

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our city attorney with regulations on adult
entertainment. You've expressed that you do not

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support public dract shows or the attendance
of children. Well, now these council

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members have responded to you with a
question, Hey, you know what,

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how would you like to help pay
for the provision of security for okay a

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qu's next family dract show. I
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that doesn't seem like a logical response. That is an absurd question to ask

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us when you showed concern and said, hey, we don't want this happening,

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and hey, do you want to
doing your tax dollars to pay for

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their security? How about that?
That doesn't make any sense at all.

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And I will just quote the agreement
just for accuracy of the facts that you

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know, I'm not just making things
that were agreement states that during the term

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of disagreement, the city agrees to
provide two undue uniform officers doing Okayques twenty

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twenty three Pride celebration at the city
sole expense to help ensure the safety of

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all parties. And this is a
unique privilege being given to a special in

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truce group, which is also unacceptable. One, it should not be provided

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by our taxpayer schollars. And Okay
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they feel they need that for the
president. And lastly, and then there's

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other issues. I'm not giving a
completely conclusive, extensive, you know,

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study report on this. But these
are things that I've assume that are very

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concerning, and I feel that our
leaders should have seen all these things.

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And I'm just a young twenty two
year old and i saw these problems,

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and I think our council should have
given the example of let's do that as

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well. Let's let's studied this and
let's let's do something that's that's better.

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This is just so insufficient it's actually
kind of embarrassing. Lastly, that's perhaps

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one of my greatest concerns is the
innocence of children. I am a huge

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proponent of protecting children from pornography,
from protective children, from sexual abuse and

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from being sexualized. This is heartbreaking
to me. I want to see many

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of women that lead by an example
of steading it out for protecting children's instance,

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it should not be exposed to drive
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So I'm disappointed in the lack of
leadership, and in one of all I've

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shared with you, I am in
support of removal of council and Dale Copeland,

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Jim ker Junior, and Lahammizzelle.
Thank you for listening. Welcome evening.

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My name is aa Vaughn. For
those who don't know me, I'm

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just a guy. So I was
asked about nine or ten this morning to

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speak on representative democracy. I don't
pretend to be an expert in this an

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area. I'm not a constitutional scholar. I am a veteran. I fought

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for the rights of every single American
in this nation. It breaks my heart

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to see some of the things that
we've been seeing transpire over the last couple

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of years, not just on a
local level, but on a national level.

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But on a local level, we
have an obligation and a duty to

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stand to protect the least of these
children. I don't care what your personal

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preference is behind closed doors, so
far as staying there, that's my stance.

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And as I go into this,
I just want to say I appreciate

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these men and these women to take
time to show up to let their voice

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be heard. Righteous righteousness city.
With that said, a simple Google search

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reveals a description of representative democracy as
Representative democracy, also known as indirect democracy,

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is a type of democracy where elected
people represent a group of people,

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in contrasting to direct democracy, which
direct democracy is just when we the people

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establish law and policy. We have
representatives for a reason, we the people

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trust them to exercise their authority given
to them by God. I feel,

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as a citizen of the city that
this authority has been abused and that we've

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been disregarded. Our trust has been
violated. So now I say this,

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how should these representatives operate? Should
it be that they operate with impunity when

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they disregard the desires of those they
have taken an oath to represent? I

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say no. Should they operate the
fear fear of the battles they may say,

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in the realm of litigation, or
to the expense of such litigation,

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when we, the people whom they
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such battles are to be fought,
I say no. They are to exercise

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the will of the people. Thomas
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is the only legitimate foundation of any
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God has the ultimate foundation. We
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what is the will of the people. Well, I'll tell you two things

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regarding this. One. The will
of the people is not to have sexual

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immorality on display in the public square
period. The will of the people is

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darn sure not to have our children
exposed to the perversions of a French group

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of severely confused, wickedly corrupted,
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Two. The will of the people
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moral standards by which our laws are
established. These moral standards being a direct

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reflection of the standards or laws set
forth by our creator God. If these

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standards by which our society operates,
or all of human kind for that matter,

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if these standards are jeopardized and the
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representatives actions and whom we the people
have placed our trust, they must be

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held to account for our creator,
God has placed them in authority. So

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what should we do with those who
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them righteously? Roman says, do
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evil with good. We can love
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going to read this because this is
the popular text that everybody, both inside

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and outside of Christianity goes to when
it comes to submission to authority. Romans

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thirteen one through four. Let every
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There is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted

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by God. Therefore, whoever resists
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and those who resist will incur judge. For rulers are not a terror to

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good conduct, but to bad.
Would you have no fear of the one

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who is in authority to do what
is good, and you will receive his

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approval, for he is God's servant
for your good. But if you do

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wrong, be afraid, for he
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for he is the servant of God. I say again that says he is

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a servant to God an a venger
who carries out God's wrath on the wrong

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door. I didn't see any wrath
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observed in our community. People misconstrue
this whole verse. They take it out

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of context. Yes, I'm to
be subject to the authorities, but my

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ultimate authority says that they have to
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and when their authority is abused on
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obligation and a duty to our God
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Yes, so I want to break
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people have an active role in the
governance process. God says for us to

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be subject, be under the authority
of not to cowtell and run when sin

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is running rampant in our community.
The leader's role in this passage is to

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carry out justice to the wrong viewer
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the people. Now, I'll contend
that there is nothing good about sexually explicit

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and perverse dancing in the face of
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or that. So what do we
do with those leaders who act contrary to

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God's will within their appointment? We
bring it to their attention. We pray

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we act within the process of the
system that we've established as we the people

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under God. With physical Exodus twenty
three one through two. One in two

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one through two, that's almost first. It says, you shall not spread

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a false report, You shall not
join hands with a wicked man to be

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a malicious witness. You shall not
fall in with the man to do evil,

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Nor shall you bear witness in a
lawsuit siding with the many so as

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to pervert justice, pervert justice.
A lot of that is going on right

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now. I would call you,
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Christ, but to stay together,
let your voices continue to be heard,

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and hold those accountable who replaced our
trusting, who have violated our trust First

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Grenthean sixteenth thirteen through fourteen. As
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be watchful, stand firm, and
the faith act like men, be strong,

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that all that you do be done
in love. I'm a veteran.

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I fought in combat. I'm not
up there bragging on that. I'm up

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there. I am proud of it. But I'll tell you this, I'm

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not running to any lines to be
combative with people. I'm not running any

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lines to spread violence or hate.
I'm actually to the contrary, trying to

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love on my neighbors. As Pastor
Caleb alluded to, I'm running to stand

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there and say, look, if
you do you want to hurt me,

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here I am. But you're not
going to hurt them. This message gets

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lost. It's it's lost right now. Understand this. They the council members,

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are representatives have been placed into a
position of authority by the ultimate authority

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of God. Their job is not
to active fear of litigation or to be

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willing to compromise or negotiate with sin, to come out and speak. I've

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been sitting in the back, though, and I've been watching my brothers and

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sisters in this community plead with the
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Some of those members of that council
claim to love Christ. I'm no perfect

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saint. I sin daily. I
repent daily. Though also I go to

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my Lord and Savior and I tell
him, make me different every day,

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make me strong in You every day. Help me to love my brothers and

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sisters every day. Love doesn't come
in the form of tolerance when it pertains

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to sin. You might not like
that. To defend you, I'm not

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sorry. Operating out of fear and
for God in a pursuit to uphold righteousness

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should be our council members number one. That is their responsibility. Some of

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them have failed to do that.
They should not be our leaders or our

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representatives anymore. My name is Aaron
barn and thank God for your time or

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even My name is Dustin Owen.
I am a youth pastor at Barnesville First

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Baptist Church, vice chairman of the
thirty fourth Precinct of the Washington County GOOP

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but I'm here as a husband,
a father of four wonderful children, and

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a deeply disturbed citizen of Bartlesville,
as I have watched the darkness that is

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encroaching upon our community here. As
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I have not been involved in politics
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why recently, Well, that's my
aim tonight is get to give you a

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bit of a summary, a bit
of a timeline on the way things that

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have progressed here in Barrowsville now that
have been a bit of going second to

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last. Is you're repeating a lot
of what others said, So that's all

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right. But my goal is that
perhaps there are some of you in here

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who are like me, who maybe
have thought that it's not your place,

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or that Christians ought not be involved
in these things. I pray the Lord

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will change your hearts and show you
how imperative it is that we stand in

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the gap for those who are defenseless. It is no secret by now that

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in September of last year, Oklahoman's
for a Quality hosted their annual Pride event

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this year in Unity Square. The
drag show portion of this event, however,

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was the catalyst for all that is
happening currently, men dressed as women,

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dancing provocatively and engaged in lewd behavior
in the presence of children, who

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even accepted tips from those in attendance, yes, including the children. Shortly

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after the event, Shannon King,
a godly mom and our community author a

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change dot org petition calling on our
city council to enforce the ordinances we already

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have in place or l seek to
draft ordinance to quote ensure that this never

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happens in Bartlesville again. On October
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and Bartlesville citizens showed up in force
to show support of the petition and the

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regulation of these draft shows. Shortly
after this meeting, Shannon King formed a

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group of several pastors and concerned citizens
of Bartlesville to inform us that she was

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approached by Mike Bailey and other city
leaders in order to negotiate outside of city

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council with Oklahoma's for Equality and the
petitioners represented by those of us in this

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group. Now, this is important. This is important because it shows that

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from the beginning, the representatives of
Bartlesville were ading, avoiding enforcing the laws,

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and acting in the best interests of
those they proclaim they represent. In

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fear of litigation, we decline to
negotiate with OKDQ. In November, City

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Attorney Jess Kane gave his report on
his understanding of our current laws and ordinances

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and potential options for the city Council
to pursue, and at the January meeting,

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the council voted four out of five
in favor of having Jess Kane look

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into drafting ordinances regulating adult entertainment in
Bartlesville, and was given one hundred and

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twenty days to do so, even
having been given the permission to obtain outside

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council for assistance in developing these municipal
ordinances. And finally, at the April

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third meeting, the citizens of Bartlesville
were malware that rather than act according to

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how he had been instructed to act
by this vote, Jess Kane instead began

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negotiating again with ok EQ, allowing
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for one year without regulating age limit. When council members were asked to vote,

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they voted three out of five in
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is why we are pursuing recall,
friends, because if you go back,

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and I encourage you to do so. If you've not watched these city council

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meetings, I encourage you to do
so, and not to hear necessarily what

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the council members are saying, but
listen to the citizens of Bartels building.

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I encourage you to do that because
the scales are tipped overwhelmingly in favor of

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protecting children from these events, and
yet those who claim they are representing bartels

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They'll have failed to do so.
As you have heard from mister Vaughan tonight.

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That's how representative government ought to Representative
governments is not there to act in

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a way that they think it's best
for the citizens they represent, with no

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accountability. No representative government means that
they will do the will of the people.

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They will act according to the will
of people. That is why we

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are pursuing recall, because these three
city council members have failed in their duties

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to represent the people's desires. Now, I want to address those of you

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in this room who are believers,
who are perhaps on the fence. Perhaps

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you have got to yourself that you
shouldn't be involved like I did at one

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point, as I hope. You
can see from my brother's commons here,

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Caleb and Aaron, and my sister
Samantha, it is our duty as believers

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to push back against darkness in our
community. Yes, God has sovereignly placed

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us all here at this time and
place for a purpose. God has soveridly

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placed you and I in a context
where the people are the power for a

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reason. And if the people are
the power and we stay sided and we

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do nothing, then we are absolutely
complicit in the sins and crimes that are

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being committed against these childrens. This
is no political issue. This is a

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moral issue. This is an ethical
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Proverbs twenty four reveals to us that
we are called to rescue those who

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are carried off to death. We
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who are made in the image of
God. We ought to stand firm,

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stand firm in defense of those of
whom Jesus said, let them come to

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me, brothers and sisters. This
is a hill to die on, and

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I will die on it. So
when it comes to the murder of children

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in the womb, I will die
on that hill. When it comes to

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the grooming of children, I will
die on that hill. You may say,

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as some professing believers are. Our
counsel have said, well, well,

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God is on his throne, yes, but we should act like he

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is. And I fear. I
fear for those who use the sovereignty of

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God as an excuse for apathy,
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I am imploring with you all tonight, push back darkness. Caleb said,

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we are to be the light light
pushes back darkness. Stand firm and fight

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for the children. Because listen,
one thing is for sure. If you

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don't Christian, who will If we
do nothing. Okay, EQ marches on

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advancing the kingdom of darkness in our
community, and it will not stop.

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It's time to get involved. And
if that's not enough evidence of why we

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are pursuing, recall look at who
is supporting the three council members and Miss

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Oklahoma's for Equality, who applauded when
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Jesus said to his disciples, if
you were of this world, it would

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love you as its own. If
brothers and sisters, if if the world

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or the wicked ever come quickly to
my defense, I will know beyond the

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shadow of the doubt that I have
taken missteps in my walk with Christ.

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But if the world opposes me,
I will rejoice to share in the sufferings

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of my Lord Jesus Christ. You
said in John seventy seven, the world

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hates me because I testify that its
works are evil. So let's get involved

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and without further ado, you've heard
the why and the recall, and now

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Sarah Burnett's going to come and share
the how. Thank you all so much

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for being here and quartaining the time. Are here una to hearing run.

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So I'm want to share what the
recall will look like. Our municipal charter

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states that twenty percent of the registered
voters of a ward signatures are required to

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put a recall in process. What
will happen is once those signatures are verified,

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then it can go to the ballot
and all of the voters of that

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ward will have the opportunity that will
get non partisan vote, the opportunity to

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vote whether to retain or remove that
council number per the vote on April third.

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This is pursuing the recall of words
one, two, and three for

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their vote and great it. So
the packets are on flipboards like this need

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volunteers to help collect signatures. So
I'm going to go through the packets,

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and then there's two actions you can
take at the end of this meeting.

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One, if you live in ward
one, two, or three, please

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stop at the table in the back
and we can get your signature on the

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petition number Two. If you're interested
in helping us collect signatures and volunteers,

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so go up to that same table
and say that's your interest and we'll talk

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through it. But these are the
volunteer packets. The reasons stated for this

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recall is that the Bartlesville City Council
adopted an agreement with ohit EQ to continue

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drag shows in the city of Bartlesville. And so this package just includes some

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very basic forms and if you guys
want access to any of this, we

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can get it in the hands of
everybody. First of all, the info

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sheet, it kind of tells the
story which has been outlined as well as

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where our currency. The ordinances mentioned
topics such as lewdness, sexual or to

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business and if miners are allowed to
be present at those which they are not,

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and other applicable organments. So that's
included. Next is a copy of

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the agreements with City of Bartlesville and
Oklahoma's for Equality the incorporated copied FA the

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city. Then there's the ward map. It's very important if you sign this

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petition that you are a registered voter
who lives within that ward, so that's

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why that's included. And then I
just want to show this packet. So

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this is the petition packet. First, it includes a warning warning it is

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a felony for anyone to sign an
initiative for referendum petition with any name other

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than his own, or knowingly to
sign his name more than once for the

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measure, or to sign such a
petition when he is not a legal voter.

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So that's included along with the petition, the show cost statement, and

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the signatures on the show cost statement. This is the stated reason for the

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recall. So if you agree with
this statement, then we would encourage you

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to sign the petition. I'm going
to read the show cost statement. Whereas

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the Bartlesville City Council acknowledged the objections
and Bartlesville citizens to dract shows hosted in

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public and attended by children, and
as a result, voted to pursue quote

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drafting options for possible municipal organization which
seeks to define and regulate obscenity in Bartlesville

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end quote, whereas the Bartlesville City
Council instead voted instead adopted an agreement with

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ok EQ to continue allowing drect shows
in the City of Bartlesville, whereas Dale

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Copeland voting to adopt the agreement.
At the Bartlesville City Council meeting on April

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third, twenty point three, we
the undersigned to hand the removal of Mayor

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Dale Copealds. And it is the
same show cost statement from World two for

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mister Warren result and the identical show
cost statement for Word three Mayor Jim Kerk

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Junior. So that is the packets
and this is going to new thousand percent

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insurance to get done. There's over
seventy thousand people per word, and we

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need twenty percent of the registered voters
in that ward to sign hard to this

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petition. Finally, if you would
like to help many additional ways or have

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any questions at all, we have
business cards back there on the table we

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stake. Then these are free to
be distributed. This go to the any

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Okay Grassroom scott org website, and
that website is just a place where you

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can put your information in so that
someone from our team can contact you and

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make sure your name is on the
petition. So, for any reason,

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if you know a voter who would
like to sign this petition wherever, please

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take some cards and pass those out
so that they can get donates added to

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the petition. Thank you all so
much for being here. I think I'm

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gonna turn over to thank you all
for being here to see me. The

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mandate is clear. Something that I
thought about glad was sitting there flash this

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chapter three. If then you have
been raised with Christ, seek those things

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which are above, where Christ is
seeded at the right hand of God.

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Sets your minds on things that are
above, not on the things of this

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earth, where you have died and
your life is hidden with Christ. And

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when Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear

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with him in glory. Put to
death. Therefore, what is earthly in

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you sexual im morality, impurity,
passions, evil desires, and conviciousness,

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which is idolatry. This is the
ultimate idea that all of this, it

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is an idolatrous world system. Yes, it is wicked to the core,

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on an account, on an account
that the wrath of God is coming.

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That's not me. The word of
God says, if you do not repent

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of your sins, that the wrath
of God is coming. And I'm pleading,

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as a pastor and as a fellow
citizen of humanity, repents of your

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sins and trust the Lord Esus Christ
to me, Father, thank you for

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the opportunity for us to be able
to gather here tonight and express our concerns.

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God, help us to see that
your word is pre eminent, that

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you are pre eminent, Lord Jesus, that this is a this is a

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battle that's worth fighting, and that
we are in a battle. And Lord,

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I asked that you would do what
only you can do in these moments.

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And God, I asked that you
would transform hearts, that you would

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change, will get into praise,
men and women to forgiven. Say yes

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just like you did me, just
like you did everyone who has been saved

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for this room. That I love
you and we need you and Jesus name

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Amen. In New York Business

