Tag Archives: Oklahoma

Oklahoma City’s NBC affiliate reports: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Constitution does not limit marriage rights. Now, Republican Senator Dusty Deevers (R-Elgin), alongside Republican Representative Jim Olsen (R-Roland), have filed a resolution, calling for U.S. Supreme Court justices, most of them conservative, to overturn the 2015 ruling. As part of their reasoning, Deevers and Olsen say Oklahoma voters …

Oklahoma City’s Fox affiliate reports: House Bill 1217, which is set to classify particular types of public performances as obscene including certain drag performances, has gone to the governor’s desk for approval. On Thursday morning, the State Senate had a dragged out debate over drag queens. “Nothing in the bills addresses drag or the dress. It addresses the behavior,” stated …

Public Information reports: Beginning in the 2025-26 school year, thousands of high school students in Oklahoma will be required to learn about President Trump’s debunked claims that the 2020 election was tainted by fraud. The lesson will not be part of a course on conspiracy theories, but an official component of the new social studies curriculum created by Oklahoma Superintendent …

NBC News reports: A case that could weaken the separation of church and state goes before the Supreme Court on Wednesday as the justices consider whether Oklahoma can approve the first-ever religious public charter school. Although the oral argument concerns only St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, which would operate online throughout the state with a remit to promote …

Oklahoma City’s NBC affiliate reports: A metro pastor was arrested this week after he allegedly convinced his congregation to move in with him, and then molested a young girl. Elmer Baca-Flores is the owner of a 501c3 nonprofit church labeled ‘Ministerio Levantando Adoradores Para Cristo Inc.’ Two men told officials that their wives had been brainwashed by Flores and that …

“Today in Oklahoma, we’re fighting back. I’ve got this lawsuit that I filed today against the Freedom From Religion Foundation. They’re a group of radical atheists that continue to attack our students and teachers in the state of Oklahoma. “Well, never again. These radical atheists can find somewhere else to go because we’re not gonna allow them to harass our …

The Washington Post reports: Teachers in Oklahoma would be instructed to have high school students “identify discrepancies in 2020 elections results” under new academic standards for social studies approved by the state education board last month. They stipulate that students should review information relating to the election, including “the sudden halting of ballot-counting in select cities in key battleground states, …

Religion News Service reports: Ryan Walters is looking for 55,000 Bibles, and he is seeking $60 donations for each of them. Walters, who is Oklahoma’s state superintendent of public instruction, has made national headlines for his efforts to get Bibles into the hands of public school kids in his state. After state officials earlier this week rejected his request for …

The Oklahoman reports: The Senate Education Appropriations subcommittee presented its budget recommendation for the Oklahoma State Department of Education Wednesday, which nixed a $3 million request by the agency to place Bibles in classrooms. In January, Walters presented his agency’s proposed budget to the subcommittee, which included $3 million to place Bibles in classrooms. The request was not considered by …

The Oklahoma Voice reports: A bill that would ban schools from using corporal punishment on students with disabilities passed the Senate on Tuesday despite concerns it removes local control and could go against parental wishes. The state Department of Education has already prohibited the practice, but Senate Bill 364 seeks to codify into state law a ban against deliberately causing …

“The reality is we have to push back on Obergefell. If we wait too long on that Obergefell ruling to start actually sending things back up and challenging that stance that somehow we have to all get along and say that same-sex marriage is okay, it’s going to be too late at some point for us to push back. “So, …

The Associated Press reports: The Supreme Court agreed Friday to take on a new culture war dispute: whether the nation’s first publicly funded religious charter school should be allowed to open in Oklahoma. The justices said they would review an Oklahoma Supreme Court decision that invalidated a state board’s approval of an application by the Catholic Church in Oklahoma to …

Oklahoma City’s NBC affiliate reports: The Cleveland County District Attorney’s office has charged a former pastor who’s accused of sending an unsolicited nude photo of himself to a Kansas teenager. Court documents allege McMillan added the victim on Snapchat in 2023. The victim told police at the time McMillan would have had to use his son’s phone, her former classmate, …

From Oklahoma GOP state Rep. Dusty Deevers: Sen. Dusty Deevers, R-Elgin, announced on Tuesday a bold slate of eight legislative measures aimed at restoring moral sanity in Oklahoma. 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 …

“What a terrible day when we see terrorist attacks on American soil. It’s absolutely tragic and we’ve got to look as a country on how these things happen. We absolutely have to shut down the border, we can’t allow terrorists to come across the border. We also have to take a look at how are these terrorists coming from people …

The Huffington Post reports: The Oklahoma State Department of Education proposed a new administrative rule on Tuesday that would require school districts to collect data on undocumented students in the state. The agency that oversees the state’s public and charter schools announced the proposed rule about a month before President-elect Donald Trump, who has promised an unprecedented crackdown on undocumented …

Tulsa’s Fox affiliate reports: An Inola pastor was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Tuesday after being found guilty of rape and two counts of lewd or indecent acts involving young girls. FOX23 told you four years ago about Inola pastor Roy Shoop when he was arrested. Shoop was the pastor of the Cowboy Gatherin’ Church in Inola. The …

Oklahoma City’s ABC affiliate reports: Cleveland County deputies arrested a former pastor accused of lewd or indecent acts to a child under 16, and investigators say there could be more victims. James McMillan was arrested Tuesday afternoon, and court documents show that there are multiple Department of Human Services and law enforcement cases where he is listed as a sexual …

The Tulsa World reports: The people behind the invocation before last week’s Tulsa’s City Council meeting would like Gov. Kevin Stitt, State Superintendent Ryan Walters and other state officials who are in a tizzy over the prayer to know that it had nothing to do with Satan. Amy Hardy-McAdams, a high priestess of the Artemisian Faerie Faith, said she is …

The Associated Press reports: Oklahoma’s education superintendent has sent an email to public school superintendents requiring them to show students his video announcement of a new Department of Religious Freedom and Patriotism within the state Department of Education. Ryan Walters, a Republican, announced the new office on Wednesday and on Thursday sent the email to school superintendents statewide. “In one …