Republican Oklahoma state senator and Southern Baptist Pastor Dusty Deevers introduced a bill to the Oklahoma state legislature that aims to increase punishments for child sex abuse material and seeks to abolish the use of pornography in the state entirely.
On Jan. 21, Deevers announced Bill SB593, titled “Increasing Penalties for Child Pornography and Prohibiting Pornography in Oklahoma.” If passed, the bill would “significantly heighten existing zero-to-20-year penalties for the possession, distribution, and production of child sexual assault material to 10-to-30 years.”
The bill also “includes a provision that any subsequent offense for child sexual assault material results in 15-50 years in prison,” Deevers said in a press release. “There is perhaps no more psychopathic and antisocial behavior in existence than producing, distributing, or watching child sexual abuse material.”
Deevers added, “These people should not be back on our streets after brief stints behind bars. Rather, they should be locked away for decades at a minimum.”
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The bill also aims to prohibit all use of pornography in the state and impose up to 10-year prison terms for “production, distribution, or possession.” In addition, if passed, Bill SB593 would increase jail time for those convicted of “organized pornography trafficking” to a maximum of to up 30 years.
“Pornography is both degenerate material and a highly addictive drug,” Deevers said. “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,” he added.
Bill SB593 was one of eight new bills Deevers proposed that are “aimed at restoring moral sanity in Oklahoma.” Others bills the state senator announced included the following: SB456—”The Abolition of Abortion Act,” SB550—”Prohibiting Drag Performances for Children,” SB228—”The Covenant Marriage Act,” SB829—”Prohibiting No-Fault Divorce,” SB281—”The Make Adoption Affordable Again Act,” SB328—”The Promote Child Thriving Act,” and SB736—”Equal Tax Status for Health Share Ministries.”
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“Sadly,” Deevers said, “the left’s century-long assault on morality and decency has been so successful that some have come to accept as normal a society that is drowning in hardcore pornography, prenatal homicide, and sexual performances for children.”
