# Oklahoma proposes anti-food bank bill \[Now in the BBQ Pit\] **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 6, 2026, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450 "2026-02-06T19:49:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2026, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450/61 "2026-02-08T18:47:03Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The other day, the pope criticized the administration’s immigration policies by referencing the Bible, specifically Matthew 25:35. Now, I am the furthest thing from a Christian but I can Google and it says, “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in.” Yeah, they want government to prevent abortions and outlaw gender-affirming surgery, but they don’t want government to feed the hungry - that’s for individuals to do. Uhhuh. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2026, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450/62 "2026-02-08T18:58:02Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > The other day, the pope criticized the administration’s immigration policies by referencing the Bible, specifically Matthew 25:35. Now, I am the furthest thing from a Christian but I can Google and it says, “For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in.” Funny thing about this quote. Growing up as a fundamentalist Christian, I was taught that the path to eternal life was to accept Jesus Christ as my personal savior. I’ve been an atheist for decades now. I was recently reading a book about the development of the ideas of heaven and hell throughout the history of Christianity and I read this full quote in context. Reading the words of Christ, it is glaringly obvious to me that he’s saying, right here, that the path to eternal life is compassion for one’s fellow human, particularly the most vulnerable and marginalized. It’s right there. Not belief. Action. Compassionate action. That’s the path to eternal life, according to Jesus Christ. Yet empathy has become a dirty word for many Christians now, when I can’t think of anything more empathetic than Jesus putting himself in the shoes of vulnerable people to such an extent that he considered himself interchangeable with them. ---
**Author:** ![susan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/susan/32/17537_2.png) [@susan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/susan)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450/63 "2026-02-09T02:06:07Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Not belief. Action. Compassionate action. He was a Jewish guy. Good deeds matter in Judaism. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450/64 "2026-02-09T02:47:43Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > Not belief. Action. Compassionate action. That’s the path to eternal life, according to Jesus Christ. When you break it down, Christianity is basically just a Greek mystery cult wearing a Jewish mystic’s skin as a mask. Avoiding labor for an entire day every week, sticking to a specific diet, ritual sacrifices, having part of your dick sliced off - that’s a hard sell. “Just believe and you’re in”? That’s easy to get buy-in on. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450/65 "2026-02-09T03:30:57Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Exactly. Crazy bills that have no hope of passing- and even if they di- which somehow the Tenn one did- they will have no effect, since a law banning something that doesnt happen has no effect. But they think that they exist, which is just as bad, because now they’ll start arresting pilots from all of those airlines that are spewing DHMO into the atmosphere. You can’t just ignore the crazy, because the crazy really does exist. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450/66 "2026-02-09T13:46:41Z")
Pandering to the crazy only encourages the crazy. We’ve seen how well that’s worked the last 30 years; we kept sane-washing the crazy and now we’re awash in it. Anyone who believes we’ve seen peak crazy is in for a big surprise. This is the barest tip of the ~~iceberg~~ crazyberg. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450/67 "2026-02-09T17:10:03Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > that’s for individuals to do. But this law does explicitly regulate the religious behavior of individual Christians. It would as bad as saying '“any Christian pastor, or other church official, found not to have laid with man as with woman in the past 30 days faces a 50k fine”. Arguably worse, giving food to the poor, and showing hospitality to foreigners and strangers, is far more central to Christian identity (and has way more of the Bible dedicated to it) than proscriptions on homosexuality. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450/68 "2026-02-09T17:12:30Z")
Damn straight.👍 ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450/69 "2026-02-09T17:57:15Z")
> [@steronz](#): > > In my fantasy world, Christians will wake up one day and realize that the Republican party line of “private charities should handle the social safety net, not the government” is a lie, and that Republicans just want poor people to die. The first step will have to be Christians waking up one day and realizing what it actually means to be a Christian. Apparently, the “new commandment” of, “Love One Another”, is far too vague and verbose for those people to understand. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450/70 "2026-02-09T18:02:11Z")
> [@griffin1977](#): > > homosexuality > [@SuntanLotion](#): > > Damn straight.👍 ISWYDT ---
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450/71 "2026-02-09T18:41:51Z")
> [@Smapti](#): > > When you break it down, Christianity is basically just a Greek mystery cult wearing a Jewish mystic’s skin as a mask. There is a lot of truth to this. Early Christianity essentially grew out of Gnosticism from Judaism, and evolved into what we know today. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450/72 "2026-02-09T19:46:13Z")
Whose founding document was heavily influenced by a mortal dude named John, a man with severe sexual hang-ups. 2000 years later that one man’s wacky ideas about sex permeate a large fraction of human culture. Everybody else is just scratching their heads in wonderment. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450/73 "2026-02-09T20:09:16Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > 2000 years later that one man’s wacky ideas about sex permeate a large fraction of human culture. Everybody else is just scratching their heads in wonderment. That’s true, but I also thank him. Something would be lost if sex wasn’t a little dirty. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450/74 "2026-02-09T20:54:14Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Pandering to the crazy only encourages the crazy. Though TBH while the GOP has been doing **a lot** of pandering to crazy recently I don’t think this is an example of that. This is absolutely core GOP values at work. The Gospel According to Supply Side Jesus all the way ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450/75 "2026-02-09T21:01:24Z")
Not really. It isn’t anti food bank or even anti charity. It’s anti non-citizen with a massive side order of anti-white. So not Reaganomics; pure White Nationalist Fascism. ---
**Author:** ![griffin1977](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@griffin1977](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/griffin1977)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450/76 "2026-02-09T21:07:53Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > So not Reaganomics; pure White Nationalist Fascism. Hate to break it to you but that is core GOP values, and always was. They don’t care about all that other crap like small government, etc. and **never did**. It was always about pure White Nationalist Fascism. The craziness about chem trails, vaccines and qanon, etc. is new (or at least moved from the crazy fringe to the mainstream). But the white nationalism was always their core values the only thing that changed is Trump showed them they don’t need to pretend to care about all that other crap. ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450/77 "2026-02-09T22:02:37Z")
Hey, as a Coloradoan, I think Tennessee and Alabama should ban air travel! Could I pick a few other states too? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450/78 "2026-02-09T22:22:25Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Whose founding document was heavily influenced by a mortal dude named John, a man with severe sexual hang-ups. There were at least two Johns who had major influence on the New Testament, but I don’t think either one says much about sexuality. Were you thinking of Paul? ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450/79 "2026-02-09T22:26:02Z")
Crap. I was. D’oh! Thank you for the correction. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2026, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450/80 "2026-02-09T23:20:05Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > There were at least two Johns who had major influence on the New Testament, but I don’t think either one says much about sexuality. Were you thinking of Paul? That was my guess, too. If Christians point to anything in the New Testament which seems to validate zealous and/or intolerant behavior, it’s nearly always from Paul’s letters. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-proposes-anti-food-bank-bill-now-in-the-bbq-pit/1027450.md?page=5)