Oklahoma lawmaker Dusty Deevers is a Christian nationalist who believes the government should “terrorize evildoers.”

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    161 year ago

    “promote what is good in accordance with the will of God.”

    I guarantee this dude wouldn’t know God’s will if it’s big wet mushroom tip smacked him in the face.

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    41 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    In Deevers’ view, civil society, apart from the influence of overt Christian doctrine, is not a neutral middle ground, but rather the realm of the devil, or what he calls “a serpentine theocracy.”

    But when Deevers opens his mouth, he invariably presents a jarring, black-and-white view of the role of government — which he believes exists to “protect innocent people and to punish and terrorize evildoers.”

    While campaigning, Deevers told a religious podcast he also favors “public shaming for those who are at fault in divorce.” (In a related essay, he calls this “an important act of justice for both the transgressor and the transgressed.”)

    Deevers embodies a threat that experts believe Christian nationalism poses to democracy — by literally demonizing his opponents, and casting compromise as moral corruption.

    As Brad Onishi, author of an “Extremist History of Christian Nationalism,” recently described in an interview with Rolling Stone: “If you’re a person who is convinced that the United States is under threat by a Luciferian regime, comprised of Marxist globalist secularists, feminists, the LGBTQ community, and so on, democracy is not your sacred value.”

    Pitching himself to voters, Deevers filmed a campaign ad wielding a rifle while wearing a black T-shirt that read: “Obey God: Defy Tyrants.” He railed against “the Godless leftist agenda” that he warned threatens “thriving families and their moral development.” He additionally decried “drag queen story hour” and the “chemical and surgical mutilation of our kids.” A longtime opponent of abortion, Deevers positioned this stance in biblical terms as “loving my pre-born neighbor as myself.”


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    491 year ago

    I’ll put $100 down right now, that in less than 5 years this guy is caught doing some sexual thing that goes against everything he preaches, even if it’s not actually icky by anyone else’s normal standards.

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    51 year ago

    And I want to jail people for getting in the up elevator when they are really going down and double their sentences if they say, “I’ll just go for a ride” like a blithering idiot.

    I think we are probably on par with achieving our dreams.

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    191 year ago

    And so i ask, what then shall we do to mister deevers once he’s found with a 14 year old’s mouth around his cock?

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    91 year ago

    He’d be imprisoning a large portion of his voter base.

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      21 year ago

      The beauty of the panopticon and the surveillance state is that everyone breaks some law some time. So you just have to wait until you hate someone enough to notice them, find out what they did, and off they go to become slave labor.