OK Resolution Asks SCOTUS To Overturn Obergefell

May 7, 2025 Christianists, Republicans

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 codified marriage as being only between a man and a woman back in 2007. Both believe the 2015 ruling has taken power away from the states.

They point directly to the Dobbs decision in 2022, which overturned Roe versus Wade, removing federal protections for abortion access, and sending the issue back to each individual state to regulate. It is unclear if the resolution will be heard in the state senate, which cannot direct the actions of the nation’s highest court.

Read the full article. Props for that last line, KFOR. Similar efforts are underway in a handful of other red states.

Deevers appeared here last week when Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a fellow Christian nationalist, got his bill to criminalize drag in public spaces.

Deevers appeared here in January 2024 when he tried to make viewing porn and sexting a consenting person a felony.

In March 2024, he declared during a Oklahoma House floor speech that all federal regulations are “against God’s law.”

In September 2024, he declared that people who vote for Kamala Harris are “possessed by demons.”

As you’ve probably already guessed, Deevers is a pastor.



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