Smoting Fox News

Not all Democrats are Godless liberals.  Take this true story as testament to that.

A certain minister, whose greatest desire was to be like Christ and travel the world doing healing work, was in a little town in Georgia, just outside of Savannah, back in the early months of 2012.  She was a staunch Democrat, believing that our "government of, by, and for the people" should also demonstrate Christ's love by caring for the poor and the sick.

Since she had joined in a boycott on Fox News, the mouthpiece of the GOP, when she went into a certain McDonald's and saw that there were two TV sets on Fox News and Fox Business, she asked the woman behind the counter to either turn the station or turn them off.

"They only get two stations, and I ain't touching them!" the woman responded, horrified that she would lose her job for this.

"Well, if you can't turn off Fox, then I can't buy anything here," the minister responded calmly.

For several months after that, she would come in when the little local coffee shop was closed and use the Wi-Fi there, but she faithfully refused to purchase anything.  She was always friendly and polite to everyone, sharing what enlightenment she could. Beside her on the table was a picture of Christ -- the one where He is walking through the door after his resurrection with white and red light shining from His heart -- displayed on the table beside her.

Occasionally she would mention to the employees why she was not buying anything there, until one day she had to talk to the manager when the wi-fi wasn't working.  She told him that she was boycotting Fox News and asked him to change the channel, which had never been on anything but Fox and Fox Business for the entire time she had been frequenting the restaurant.

"Oh, I think it gets MSNBC and CNN and several channels," he lied.  And then he hemmed and hawed and the channel being changed was not an option, somehow.  "My boss owns twelve stores," he explained, as if that would impress her and convince her to break her boycott.  She just stood there smiling and nodding, and walked away.

The next day, when she came in, she was surprised to find that the TVs were off.  "Oh, you did it!" she said to one of the counter staff, "You turned off Fox!"

"Oh, no -- the satellite was struck by lightning," the man responded.

The minister laughed out loud and sat down to write the manager a note.  On the back of the now worn picture of Christ (she carried several, to give away when directed by Spirit) she wrote this message:

"Your boss may own 12 stores, but MY boss owns the Universe, and HE said, 'Turn off Fox!'"

And just so Snopes will know this story can actually be verified, I will tell you how she signed the message:

Reverend Sarah S. Ray