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Zorro

(16,666 posts)
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 05:52 PM Monday

What to know about an Oklahoma senator's efforts to 'restore moral sanity' in his state

An Oklahoma senator introduced a series of bills Tuesday, including one that would ban pornography in the entire state and increase penalties for those who produce child sexual abuse material.

Sen. Dusty Deevers, R-Elgin called the bill, SB593, and seven others he introduced a “slate of legislation to restore moral sanity in Oklahoma."

If the bill regarding pornography passes, those found guilty of producing, distributing or possessing pornography would face criminal penalties of up to 10 years in prison.

“Pornography is both degenerate material and a highly addictive drug,” Deevers said in a news release. It ruins marriages, ruins lives, destroys innocence, warps young people’s perception of the opposite sex, turns women into objects, turns men into objects, degrades human dignity, and corrodes the moral fabric of society. Any decent society will stand against this plague with the full weight of the law.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/01/27/what-to-know-ok-bill-ban-porn-dusty-deevers-sb593/77967651007/

Here's the point he should be making:

“Fox News is both degenerate material and a highly addictive drug. It ruins marriages, ruins lives, destroys innocence, warps young people’s perception of the opposite sex, turns women into objects, turns men into objects, degrades human dignity, and corrodes the moral fabric of society. Any decent society will stand against this plague with the full weight of the law.”

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What to know about an Oklahoma senator's efforts to 'restore moral sanity' in his state (Original Post) Zorro Monday OP
I get the banning of CP, which is already illegal under federal law sakabatou Monday #1
That's the problem maxrandb Monday #6
That would be the end of Trump news coverage. Emile Monday #2
We have some real winners in the Oklahoma House and Senate. KatyaR Monday #3
Dusty Deevers will be caught with child porn or bestiality videos in 3-2-1... Archae Monday #4
You beat me to it. PoindexterOglethorpe Monday #5
if repubs have runOK for decades why is there still moral insanity there? msongs Monday #7
repukes, lecturing us on MORALS Skittles Monday #8

sakabatou

(43,683 posts)
1. I get the banning of CP, which is already illegal under federal law
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 05:56 PM
Monday

But all porn? Would this include art (drawings, paintings, sculptures, etc)? What about fictional characters?

KatyaR

(3,549 posts)
3. We have some real winners in the Oklahoma House and Senate.
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 05:58 PM
Monday

He definitely ranks in the top 10.

Archae

(46,962 posts)
4. Dusty Deevers will be caught with child porn or bestiality videos in 3-2-1...
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 05:58 PM
Monday

"The guilty dog barks the loudest..."

PoindexterOglethorpe

(27,025 posts)
5. You beat me to it.
Mon Jan 27, 2025, 06:12 PM
Monday

invariably people like him turn out to be doing exactly what they supposedly want to ban.

Oh, the hypocrisy!

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