How long, oh Lord, how long?
Oklahoma State Senate District 32 is situated in the southwestern part of the state. It encompasses most of Commanche county and a sizable chunk of Lawton. Included in its precincts is the town of Elgin, the birth place of Southern Baptist Pastor, Dusty Deevers. Deevers graduated from Oklahoma City University and seven years later from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He has a wife and six kids.
Back during the Covid pandemic Brother Deevers began to be interested in politics. To use a favorite word of his, he was outraged that the government mandated masks should be worn by everyone and churches were urged to pause their services until the plague could be brought under some semblance of control. Mass vaccinations further fueled his anger and he compared all of it to the Nuremburg Laws. Those were the statues enacted by Nazi Germany to oppress Jews and kick start the Holocaust.
It is unclear if the mandates negatively impacted the Pastor's cash flow, or not, but one suspects he was as much concerned with shrinking donations to his church--and therefore his pay--as he was with any political philosophy.
This past Tuesday there was a special election for the seat of Senate District 32. Dusty Deevers was the republican nominee. His campaign promised he would fight tirelessly to end, "no fault divorce," (an apparent fetish of his) and pornography. He has also stated he wants to, "abolish," abortion. You know--all of it. We're talking, no if, ands, buts, or coconuts. No more of this, if the woman's life is in danger shit. In other words, hey, bitch, you fucked him, it's your fault if you die.
That's right. Dusty Deevers describes himself as a proud, abortion abolitionist. He even cut a video for the web site of, what is known as Abolitionists Rising. The site has 200,000 subscribers. The Guardian reports another Abolitionist site, a YouTube account owned by Apologia Studios has over 500,000 subscribers.
So, you might ask, what is it that abortion abolitionists want besides the no exceptions thing? Well, for one they want any woman who gets an abortion to be charged with a felony. A felony as in murder. Leading abortion abolitionist Jeff Durbin told the New York Times last year, "I do believe that the (penalty for the} unjustified taking of a human life, if provable, ultimately, justly, ought to be capital punishment."
To prove they aren't hypocrites the Guardian story says, abortion abolitionists, "openly disdain the label, pro-life."
And in order to establish his abolitionist street cred, candidate Deevers' web site featured a statement which read in part, "Babies are being murdered in pro-life Oklahoma...Oklahoma has the fifth fastest growing rate of self-managed abortion." He went on to warn voters evil, anonymous liars in the pro-life movement who slandered his, "good brothers in Christ," in previous elections abolitionists lost might come after him also.
Tuesday Dusty Deevers received a little over 54% of the votes cast. His latest title is Senator-elect. To celebrate the occasion he went on social media and posted, "Here in Oklahoma, it is time to abolish abortion, abolish pornography, abolish the state income tax and give power and equal representation back to the people!"
One assumes Reverend Deevers is referring to people just like himself. Because he certainly can't mean people who are in places like Kansas, Ohio, Michigan and others. In all those locales abortion rights, when put to a vote of said people, were resoundingly passed and have become enshrined in state constitutions.
Perhaps he feels those elections were rigged. Such beliefs are not out of line with the awful rubes he will be caucusing with in the near future.
Obviously, those of us in Oklahoma have one more problem right now. We are stuck with this crazy bastard for the next few years. Unless, of course, we can catch a break and he and his wife get nabbed doing the Christian and Bridget Ziegler thing. I wish I could be optimistic, but somehow that sems just too much to hope for.
Let's face it, Elgin, Oklahoma isn't a sin ridden, Gomorrah like Sarasota, Florida. At least as far as we know.
12-14-23
Good old Oklahoma politics.
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