As we all sadly know, Oklahoma has a long, proud, and deeply embarrassing tradition of being a national leader in the LGBTQ+-phobia movement.
From Anita Bryant’s orange juice-fueled crusades, to Sally Kern’s “gays are worse than terrorists” speech, to anti-Star Wars lawmakers trying to ban books about grumpy unicorns from libraries, the Sooner State has always gone out of its way to be on the wrong side of history when it comes to LGBTQ+ rights.
We were reminded of this opposite-of-proud tradition this week when a pair of Oklahoma lawmakers from the Oklahoma Freedom Caucus filed a resolution urging the U.S. Supreme Court to claw back freedoms and overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the 2015 ruling that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.