In a cultural moment when the societal rights of women to not be subjugated, objectified or otherwise exploited is on people’s minds, Oklahoma lawmakers are attempting to do just that, reducing pregnant women to the status of what state Rep. Justin Humphrey, R-Lane, called “hosts.” Senate Bill 195, sponsored by state Senate president pro tempore […]
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Chicken-Fried News: 2018 takeout
Fallin away The queen is dead; long live the king. Mary Fallin’s eight-year reign of terror over the state is over, and her successor Kevin Stitt is a political outsider who campaigned on his version of “drain the swamp” but has surrounded himself with insiders during his transition to the Governor’s Mansion. Oh, Gov. Fallin, […]
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Chicken-Fried News: Silkworm
Meanwhile, as Lopez and Pollard plan to force parents to send their boys to market-driven (re)education facilities while the girls stay home and prepare themselves for servile marriage, State Senator Joseph Silk, R-Broken Arrow, has authored Senate Bill 13, the kind of legislation that indicates many He-Man Woman Haters are using Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s […]
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Cover Story: Chicken-Fried News year in review and predictions for 2017
CFN looks back on 2016 and makes predictions about what Okies will get up to in 2017.
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Chicken-Fried News: Pissed off
A senator from Broken Bow wants to force people to use the gender-specific restroom that coordinates with the gender on their birth certificates.
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Chicken-Fried News: Friends for-never
Joseph Silk is trying to pass the Oklahoma Religious Freedom Act of 2015 to protect religious people from his friends in the LGBT movement.
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Chicken-Fried News: Friends for-never
Sen. Joseph Silk wrote Senate Bill 440 because he’s afraid the LGBT movement is infringing on religious convictions.