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An Oklahoma legislator’s new bill proposes a wild solution to a non-existent problem, calling for animal control to handle students pretending to be animals — which, again, isn't actually a thing.
A federal court on Friday struck down an Oklahoma law that would have had the potential to make children adopted by same-sex couples in other states legal orphans when the families are in Oklahoma.
Anti-LGBT lawmakers in Oklahoma introduced a record number of hateful bills this year, but equality advocates have quashed every single one of them.Â
The effort is led by members of the state house GOP.
Sponsors of the bill were able to get 10 GOP lawmakers in the House and five in the Senate who had previously voted against the ban to vote to override the veto.
Oklahoma Republicans want to impeach President Obama for protecting trans students. But first they want to make sure no God-fearing Christian student is forced to share a bathroom with a trans classmate.Â
The restrictive measure is one of several pieces of far-right legislation Oklahoma has passed, including one of the nation's most draconian abortion laws.
The Westboro Baptist Church of Topeka, Kan.--which, under the leadership of its notoriously antigay pastor, Fred Phelps (pictured), spreads a message of hate by picketing at soldiers' funerals--has agreed to obey new state laws that have been passed to limit where and when such demonstrations take place, a church attorney said Wednesday.
Gov. Kevin Stitt's executive order calls for binary definitions of gender according to that assigned at birth.
The far-right governor is expected to sign the bill into law.
Greg Harris, the new Illinois House majority leader, is one of several out lawmakers ascending to key posts.
