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Oklahoma Supreme Court Unanimously Blocks Personhood Ballot Initiative UPDATED

By Katie Toth

…own religious ideology on all citizens.” Some things to keep in mind about Oklahoma: First, unlike most states, Oklahoma has two courts of last resort. There is the state Supreme Court, which decides on civil and constitutional law, and there is also the Court of Criminal Appeals, which has final say on all criminal matters. (Only Oklahoma and Texas work this way.) Justices are appointed to the state Supreme Court by the governor. Second, although…

Want to Know What Public Education Would Look Like Under Project 2025? Just Take a Look at Oklahoma

By Andrew L. Seidel

…s freedom” at a recent event at the Mayflower Congregational UCC Church in Oklahoma City—including “for everyone here in Oklahoma who objected to their tax dollars funding a school that proposes to discriminate and indoctrinate.” Walters appointed the hate monger who runs the notorious Libs of TikTok social media accounts to oversee school libraries, adding to the toxic anti-LGBTQ+ atmosphere he’s cultivated, which has almost certainly cost studen…

UPDATED: Oklahoma Personhood Bill Not Dead…

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…antive policy effect. This was somewhat unexpected. (Disclosure: I live in Oklahoma and have worked, in a volunteer capacity, to keep SB-1433 from becoming law.) Granted, even Mississippi voters rejected a personhood amendment. But that was a ballot initiative. This was a bill in the legislature. And since most of the Oklahoma legislature is pro-life and Republican, days ago the bill was expected to pass. This, even though it was in some ways the…

OK’s Anti-Gay Marriage Bill Would Change Weddings But not Marriage—Not Even Gay Ones

By William E. Smith

…s of religious people who can ceremoniously marry in religious settings in Oklahoma. Think about that for a second: the State of Oklahoma sets certain basic terms that determine which marriages religions are permitted to have and promote. This is an example of what Winnifred Sullivan has famously termed the impossibility of religious freedom. Thus, in order to free court clerks from having to endorse same-sex marriage by issuing state marriage lic…

Lessons from the Defeat of the Oklahoma Personhood Bill

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…esting that SB-1433 enjoyed such strong support from Archbishop Coakley of Oklahoma City, considering that the Mississippi bishops had been far more ambivalent during that state’s recent personhood battle. This could mean any number of things, of course: from the simple and unsurprising non-news that sometimes people with the same job disagree with each other; to the possibility that personhood legislation is an unsettled question for US Catholic…

Conservative Rep Grills Oklahoma Personhood Sponsors

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…Health Committee to register my opposition to SB-1433, the staffer on the phone said, “Goodness, it seems like everyone in Oklahoma is calling.” I wearily replied that most of the calls must be in support of the bill, right? “Oh, no,” she said. “Against it.” That representative ended up voting in favor of the bill. Ah well.) But when you’re caught in the middle, it’s probably best to do what Rep. Cox has done: act with integrity and consider the…

‘We Believe That God Has a Special Plan for Every Single Life’: Oklahoma’s Strict, Punitive, and Total Abortion Ban is Just the Beginning

By Chrissy Stroop

…be able to have them out of state, even if the fundraising is done outside Oklahoma. If signed into law, Oklahoma’s new bill will be the first state law passed that explicitly defines an “unborn child” as present at conception, a key goal for proponents of “fetal personhood.” And Oklahoma legislators aren’t even trying to hide the religious motivations for their actions, which would certainly make them unconstitutional under any reasonable interpr…

Pricey Tickets, Cranky Citizens, and Priests Behind Bars as Philadelphia Prepares For Papal Visit

By Anthea Butler

…to continue to shrink into the insularity and disorganization that caused the Philadelphia Archdiocese to decline so precipitously? It remains to be seen. Meanwhile, faithful Catholics and others who want to see the Pope may be losing heart. 10,000 tickets for the Pope’s Speech at Independence Mall sold out in two minutes on Tuesday, with 394k people trying their best to get a few. Tickets are already being scalped at $100 and up on craigslist. I…

This Year in Satanism

By Joseph Laycock

…ng informed consent materials. JULY In July, Adam Daniels––a Satanist from Oklahoma City who is not affiliated with the Satanic Temple––announced that he would hold a black mass in September in the city’s civic center. This was met with a surge of petitions and protests from outraged Christians. Among conservative Catholics, a narrative had formed of how Catholics bravely defeated the Satanists behind the Harvard black mass. Some protesters seemed…

Oklahoma Bill Would Violate Basic Freedoms, Rewrite the Ten Commandments

By Andrew L. Seidel

…ural edits. So let’s be absolutely clear: if Olsen’s proposal becomes law, Oklahoma would be rewriting the Bible. We’re talking about state-sanctioned holy writ. This ought to enrage everyone. Because if the state can rewrite one religion’s holy book, it can rewrite yours. Oklahoma does not have this power. Nor does it have the power to impose that religious edict on a captive audience of your children. This is the worst kind of big government con…