Scott Jones

“Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.” I underlined those sentences when I read them because this is the state I know, love and have such hopes for. Not because it’s perfect ” probably precisely because it isn’t. It is still a work in progress. And we all get to participate in creating […]

A few years ago, France decided to ban the hijab, the Muslim head scarf, in its public schools. This set off a wave of protests by the country’s Muslim population. In recent years, religion has once again become a point of public disagreement and, at times, conflict in Europe.  At the time this decision about […]

In a speech to a John Birch Society-sponsored event reported Feb. 4, 2009, in Oklahoma Gazette, state Rep. Sally Kern, R-Oklahoma City, pronounced that she had discovered the “gay agenda.” There is a long-standing joke in the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) community ” anytime someone mentions the “gay agenda” someone will say, “Have […]

What we should really be afraid of is those who support governmental control of our bodies. Don’t be fooled, because that’s what many of the falsely called “pro-life” members of our Legislature are after. It is their ideology that government can dictate to a person what they can and cannot do in matters of their […]

Some Oklahoma legislators seem to have fantasies of the Wild West.  On Wednesday, Dec. 17, Rep. Eric Proctor, D-Tulsa, and Sen. Kenneth Corn, D-Poteau, announced they would be introducing legislation in the upcoming session that would repeal state taxes on the sale of guns and ammunition. We were told that people should not have to […]