Bibles and Bras

Ahhh…Oklahoma…land of the hypocrites!

Deeply entrenched in the bible belt, most Oklahomans love their guns and their god, while they loudly and proudly proclaim their distaste for religions other than Christianity, homosexuality, and anyone who dares to be pro-choice.

So yesterday, the announcement was made that the Lingerie Football League was interested in bringing a “team” to Oklahoma City. According to the articles I read, the LFL is comprised of teams of women who wear lingerie (duh) while playing football. A few other major league cities have teams and they believed their next location should be Oklahoma City. It took approximately 3.48 seconds for OKC Mayor Mick Cornett to offer up a resounding “Hell, NO!” to the idea of a Lingerie Football League making its home in our city.

How do we get to the correlation between devout Christians and Mayor Mick’s rejection of the LFL? Well, it’s like this…Mayor Mick’s rejection was met with massive amounts of hostility – people seem to love the idea of the LFL coming to OKC and are enraged that he’s blocking their attempt to develop a local team.

Wait…this is the bible belt, right? If we’re filled with truly devout Christians, then why in the world are we so angry that our mayor doesn’t want to allow in a “team” that focuses on extremely scantily clad women, beer drinking, and other “immoral” ideas – a “team” that is extremely degrading to women? To me, it seems that a true Christian wouldn’t want to see something like the LFL in their state…but, then again, it seems like many Oklahoma Christians are hypocrites – it’s the whole do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do mentality.

While Mayor Mick hasn’t given exact reasons as to why an LFL team wouldn’t be allowed to play at either the Cox Center or the Arena Formerly Known as the Ford Center, there are thought to be several – including the fact that the entire LFL is in a major financial bind and appears to be on the brink of financial disaster. I truly don’t think that he’s trying to infuse morality into our city – if he was, then I doubt he’d be such a huge OKC Thunder supporter, what with their equally scantily-clad Thunder Girls. I believe it’s simply a matter of making a sound business decision.