Yesterday, April 9, the latest NASCAR event at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort-Worth featured a special guest: none other than everyone’s favorite racist, gay-hating, gun-toting, bigot Phil Robertson! The race is called the Duck Commander 500, after all. Phil was invited to deliver the invocation before Saturday’s big race while another member of the Robertson clan was on hand to sing The National Anthem. What could possibly go wrong?
Now, if you can’t stand to hear the man talk: I got you. Here’s the full text of the prayer for your reading pleasure:
“Alright Texas, we got here via Bibles and guns, I’m fixing to pray to the one who made that possible. Father thank you for founding our nation. I pray Father that we don’t forget who brought us — you. Our faith in the blood of Jesus and his resurrection. Help us Father to get back to that. Help us dear God understand that the men and women on my right are the U.S. military. On my right and on my left. Our faith in you and the U.S. military is the reason we’re still here. I pray Father we put a Jesus-man in the White House. Help us do that and help us all to repent, to do what’s right, to love you more and to love each other. In the name of Jesus I pray, amen.”
Now let’s do a little pondering here. Obviously it wouldn’t be right to not mention “Bibles and guns” first. Also, a “Jesus-man” would automatically exclude Hillary Clinton, as she is a woman. Amazingly, it might also exclude Bernie Sanders (depending on the specifics of Robertson’s Christian beliefs) who is Jewish. Not exactly a surprise, the patriarch of the Robertson clan has publicly endorsed Ted Cruz for president.
It’s not exactly a shock either that a NASCAR pre-race prayer is exclusively Christian. Considering the audience, that’s a given. But instead of giving a general prayer, or even wishing safety for the drivers and crew in what can be a dangerous sport, he delivers… that.
Oh, Phil.
