Rolling Stone: Who Is Dusty Deevers?

My response to @jimmyfallon and his writers, et al.

First, I mourn the cost of enumerable people enticed into and trapped in pornography’s banquet in the grave and the fact that Jimmy Fallon serves as a waiter.

Second, I long to see singlehood, marriages, families, and… pic.twitter.com/EEko9LqQK6

— Dusty Deevers (@DustyDeevers) February 3, 2024

No one wants their daughter to be in porn. Likewise, no one should want Oklahomans to be in porn and no one should want Oklahomans watching porn.

Thankful to @michaeljknowles for having me on to discuss the porn ban. pic.twitter.com/KGDmm1VqvM

— Dusty Deevers (@DustyDeevers) February 3, 2024

LMAOOOOOOOOOOO pic.twitter.com/dFMDcteXPj

— GBH ??? Remilio (@xbtGBH) February 4, 2024

CN is a real thing…and banning porn is it. pic.twitter.com/T6PnsIskF4

— Dusty Deevers (@DustyDeevers) February 3, 2024

Appoint @DustyDeevers! pic.twitter.com/E26zm0PMGz

— William Wolfe ?? (@William_E_Wolfe) February 5, 2024

12 Brief Notes on the @RollingStone article.

1. I’ve cut my own hair since I was a junior in high school. Thanks for the compliment. Also, my jackets are not tailored. Maybe someday.

2. Unsurprisingly, you missed the distinction I made on “firewalls” between the church and… pic.twitter.com/3prVivNob8

— Dusty Deevers (@DustyDeevers) February 3, 2024

We need Dusty Deevers in the U.S. Senate.

James Lankford will be looking for a new job soon anyway.

Rolling Stone:

“Dusty Deevers is a fundamentalist preacher. He’s also a state senator. And he insists he doesn’t see “any firewalls” between his two roles — as he crusades to outlaw porn, end what he decries as the “abortion holocaust,” and abolish no-fault divorce in Oklahoma. He argues that the sole purpose of government is to “promote what is good in accordance with the will of God.” …

Deevers did not respond to an interview request from Rolling Stone, but he has detailed his political and theological views extensively in podcasts with like-minded interviewers, including calling porn “fundamentally an evil.” He augments his views with moralist policy thought poems like this one on X: 

Pornography is the opium of the masses. 

The powerful keep it to suppress the virulent. 

The immature assume it’s a harmless supplement. 

The greedy promote it to enslave the voracious consumer appetite. 

The Devil employs it as bait for a banquet in the grave. 

Ban porn. …

Sounding every bit like a Margaret Atwood villain, Deevers speaks of government as “a system of force to bring right judgment and right practice under law.” He speaks of government as wielding “the sword of violence or justice” — as though the two concepts were synonymous. He insists that “God’s word tells us especially how the Civil sphere is to operate,” and he inveighs against the “acidic effects” of “the doctrine of men.” ,,,”