According to the Texas Observer blog, Sen. Dan Patrick has established a mission in the Senate chamber in an attempt to convert the heathen senators to the Lord, Jesus Christ. Especially those who may have been tempted to forsake their faith and listen to this morning’s memorable invocation by an imam. Sen. Patrick was determined to save his own soul; he boycotted the Muslim clergyman’s prayer in respect for Jesus’ coming resurrection this Sunday.

When he got around to showing up in the Senate chamber, Patrick took to the floor:

Patrick explained that American soldiers, he understands now, aren’t “fighting just for Christians, they’re not fighting just for Jews or just for Muslims. They’re fighting for every American.” . . . “At the same time, I think about how the world looks at us, and they must be confused. We’re a nation that is so tolerant of others, we bend over backwards to allow others to pray as they wish, to dream as they wish, to speak as they wish.”

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“We are a nation that allows a Muslim to come in with a Koran, but doesn’t allow a Christian to take a Bible to school,” he said. “The world must be puzzled of those Americans. But I’m not.”

“We are a Judeo-Christian nation,” Patrick said, pausing for a second before adding, “primarily a Christian nation.”

Does Sen. Patrick live in the same nation I do? Same state? Same universe!? Has he not read about the Bible bills heard last night in the House. Does he not know that there are church groups that meet on public (school) property every day? And churches on the weekends? Has he not heard about the town with so many non-taxable church properties on the rolls that it’s going bankrupt? That is to say, does he not see that there are a billion times more churches in Austin, in Texas, in the United States than synagogues or temples or mosques. What does he have to worry about? And why does he have to be such a douche? No one intends to persecute you. Stop being such a self-centered masochist.