There’s a coup underway in the federal government. Across the rest of the nation, people seeking to endear themselves with President Trump or his supporters are doing the same sort of thing at the state level. Refusing to even acknowledge long-standing rights or court precedent, legislators are becoming the Project 2025 they want to see in the world, knowing full well every failed attempt just makes the next attempt a little bit easier.
Oklahoma lawmakers already have problems staying within the constitutional confines when writing laws. They’ve also shown they’re willing to silence dissent in ways that clearly conflict with, if nothing else, the gentlemen’s agreement generated by years of accepted government norms.
Now that legislators are seeking to dump Bibles and Ten Commandment printouts into public schools, one particular Oklahoma lawmaker (previously called out for his porn ban attempt early last year) is seeking to implement Project 2025 essentials at the state level.
Oklahoma state senator Dusty Deevers has introduced a slate of bills that would impose his “moral sanity” on the state’s residents, whether they want it or not.
It starts with this statement, which strongly suggests Deevers just really wants to run an op-ed service that is backed by the force of law.
Together, these bills set a course for pushing back against the moral decay foisted upon Oklahoma by the far-left’s march through our institutions to destroy the moral foundations upon which the United States and Christian Civilization had long rested.
Yeah, about “those bills.” It starts stupid, goes evil, goes even stupider, and then settles into a groove that pairs evil with stupid in equal measures.
First, there’s the “Abolition of Abortion Act,” which would allow the state to criminalize the use of morning after pills and other such options, even if they’re not provided by entities subject to Oklahoma State laws.
That leads directly to Dusty’s anti-porn efforts — efforts that claim they’re about preventing CSAM before moving on to make it clear anyone involved in the free exchange of ideas in this particular marketplace is just another criminal in need of jailing. It goes beyond targeting porn producers, performers, and porn sites. It also treats end users as criminals.
The bill also prohibits pornography in general, providing for criminal penalties of up to 10 years in prison for production, distribution, or possession. It also provides heightened 10-to-30-year criminal penalties for organized pornography trafficking.
What’s not explained is what “possession” means in this context. Is this dad’s box of Playboys that’s been stashed in the attic for years? Is it the cookies stored by porn sites visited by internet users? Is it any image or video stored locally on an Oklahoma resident’s computer? Who knows? Deevers doesn’t care, so long as he gets to prevent adults from accessing content created by other consenting adults.
There’s also a bill that would saddle performers and producers of drag acts if any child (not defined) is present in the audience. This is followed by the “Covenant Marriage Act” that would allow residents (presumably only the married males) to opt into a “covenant marriage” that would hamper attempts to dissolve this marriage other than for “abuse, adultery, or abandonment.” Those opting in would get a $2500 tax credit. Those who don’t just get to remain married, but without this additional credit. In Sen. Deevers’ own words, people who chooses to “opt out of the no-fault divorce scheme” are more equal than others in the eyes of the state’s tax laws.
Somehow, that leads directly to another bill proposed by Senator Dusty Deevers, which makes everything but the $2500 kickback completely irrelevant.
This bill would end no-fault divorce in Oklahoma by removing “incompatibility” as a justification for divorce, leaving abandonment, gross neglect, extreme cruelty, habitual drunkenness, insanity for a period of five years, adultery, unknown pregnancy, and fraudulent contract as the available justifications.
No more “this just isn’t working” divorces. Instead, children will be forced to endure the legally mandated marriage of people who don’t like each other. Marriage contracts have always been somewhat legally-binding. This law takes this to a whole new level, turning people who reject this contract for reasons Deevers doesn’t agree with into scofflaws who perhaps may end up being criminally prosecuting for… um… offending Deevers’ very specific view on public morality.
“Marriage vows were binding until 50 years into the sexual revolution when the no-fault divorce scheme was first brought to America. The results for children and society as a whole could not be worse,” Deevers said. “A society that teaches and allows a marriage covenant to be less important and binding than a business contract will reap the fruit of social upheaval, unfettered dishonesty, crime, violence towards women, war on men, and expendability of children. To devalue marriage is to devalue the family is to undermine the foundation of a thriving society.“
Bro, marriages has been steadily devalued for years. You know who led the charge? Men like you who believe women are pretty much just chattel, if not two-legged cattle. Once women were given the opportunity to engage in no-fault divorces, a whole lot of assholes, sociopaths, and serial abusers found themselves getting their paychecks garnished. And I’m sure that’s why you’re suddenly so concerned. The type of people who would vote in a Dusty Deevers are the same sort of people who tend to come out on the losing end of divorce proceedings.
To his credit, Deevers has also introduced a bill that would provide money to people seeking to adopt. But that’s undercut by his next bill, which says tax credits will be given to parents of children… but only the sort of parents Deevers chooses to recognize under the law.
SB328 establishes a $500 tax credit per child for a mother and father filing jointly. The credit is escalated to $1,000 if the child was born after the marriage of the parents.
“Statistically, growing up in a two-parent household is strongly correlated with virtually every good thing in a child’s life, including educational achievement, emotional health, and staying out of jail,” Deevers said. “There is no greater factor in the well-being and future success of a child than whether they grew up in a two-parent household with their mother and father. It’s not even close. Accordingly, it would be irresponsible of us not to promote two-parent households.“
Yep, this is only for straight couples and the largest benefit goes to those who managed to hold off on having kids until after they were legally married. Same-sex couples need not apply. Unmarried couples can still get half of this credit, but aren’t going to get the whole amount unless they choose to get married before the birth of their next child. And that means the adoption credit offered by Deevers doesn’t actually mean all that much, because continued support for the adopted child pretty much rests on how cis the parents are and how long they’ve been married to each other.
In conclusion, Dusty Deevers is a terrible person who never should have been elevated to public office. But none of that seems to matter anymore. A bunch of Americans have decided it’s better to elect pieces of shit so long as they promise to hurt the people these voters hate the most. They’ll wear their own bruises as a matter of pride and pretend any collateral damage they and their rights suffer is solely attributable to liberals, the deep state, contrails, Antifa, wokeism, or whatever else takes the sting away from a reality that would normally be considered to be undeniable.