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Jun 1, 2022 • 21 tweets • 10 min read • Read on X
1/20 A TALE OF TWO AMICUS BRIEFS

You need to know about two very important amicus briefs filed in the #DobbsvJackson case before #SCOTUS. When contrasted they are worth their weight in gold for a Presidential vote at #SBC2022. Let's consider: (1) @ERLC's and (2) Abolitionists'.
2/20 Let us contrast each brief on three points: (1) Filers or amici curiae (friends of the court); (2) List of authorities; and, (3) aims. Ask yourself, "Which amicus speaks for me?" For clarity, let's call them the RC/ERLC and FAA briefs.
3/20 RC/ERLC FILERS: The @ERLC did not write their own amicus, but signed onto one written and submitted by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Filers include three other Roman Catholic orgs, Lutherans, and Nat'l Assoc of Evang. Who's NAE? supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/19/1… ImageImagePg 155 from Book of Reports...
4/20 The National Association of Evangelicals is a progressive group pushing LGBTQ+ agendas. @DennyBurk rightly exposed their "Fairness for All" campaign: "This is a disaster. . . . I will do everything I can to oppose NAE and CCCU in this." Read his 🧵.
5/20 FAA FILERS: Abolitionists signed onto an amicus brief written by Baptist attorney, @bradleywpierce, for the Foundation to Abolish Abortion, @AbolitionistFAA. faa.life/dobbs-brief on behalf of many abolitionist orgs all affirming sola Scriptura. ImageImageImage
6/20 RC/ERLC Authorities: Nowhere is God’s Word referenced. You'll find Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, & Vatican II but Scripture is absent. @ERLC calls upon papists and progressives to represent Southern Baptists instead of God’s Word?? Thus, why we call it the RC/ERLC brief.
7/20 FAA Authorities: The first authority of the abolitionist argument against Roe v. Wade is the Holy Bible (2 Cor 10:4-5). God’s Word was brought before the Supreme Court as the Abolitionist Movement declared to the justices the higher court before Whom they must bow. Image
8/20 Should the SBC be led by the Roman Catholic Church in this battle, or should the @ERLC lead the SBC to respond biblically instead of depending on the Roman Catholic Church and progressive NAE for its talking points and strategy?
9/20 RC/ERLC AIMS: “The Mississippi legislation should be upheld.” What, you may ask, does the Mississippi legislation determine? Their answer: “Except in a medical emergency or in the case of a severe fetal abnormality, a person shall not intentionally or knowingly perform...
10/20 induce, or attempt to perform or induce an abortion of an unborn human being if the probable gestational age of the unborn human being has been determined to be greater than fifteen (15) weeks.” The RC/ERLC brief argues for regulating abortion as healthcare after 15 weeks..
11/20 meaning: (1) innocent children from the age of fertilization to 14 weeks 6 days are passed over with no protection under the law, and (2) homicide of all children is not included in the homicide codes for all born children. The RC/ERLC letter promotes partiality that...
12/20 God calls an “abomination” (Proverbs 17:15; 18:5). Over and against the RC/ERLC brief God demands, “You shall not pervert justice. You shall not show partiality. . . . Justice, and only justice, you shall follow” (Deuteronomy 16:19-20).
13/20 The RC/ERLC brief also requests that the court not treat abortion as a Constitutional issue: “If it continues to treat abortion as a constitutional issue, this Court will face yet more questions downstream about what sorts of abortion regulations are permissible.” This...
14/20 argument is based on the assertion that the Constitution is silent on abortion, which assumes that preborn children are not “people.” If the preborn child is a person, then abortion would be outlawed by the fifth amendment, which states...
15/20 “No person shall be . . . deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” The RC/ERLC brief does not recognize or assert personhood from fertilization. BFM2K states, "Children, from the moment of conception, are a blessing and heritage from the Lord."
16/20 FAA AIMS: “Above all, the purpose of filing the brief was to glorify God. We aim in the brief to be respectful of the constitutional institution of the Court, yet strong and in earnest. God’s image is being slain with impunity and His law is being trampled underfoot....
17/20 "Children are dying and so is our country unless something seriously changes.” Also, “The brief was an opportunity...to leave a historical record of standing for life and justice against tyranny.”

Which amicus brief speaks for you? Does the RC/ERLC speak for you?
18/20 The @ERLC has lost its way. Sadly, instead of principally & powerfully representing Southern Baptists & our Lord according to His Word, they have veiled the Truth, veered from the BF&M2K, & swerved from the heart of and call from the messengers. sbc.net/resource-libra…
19/20 Do yourself a solid and listen to @tomascol's interview with @bradleywpierce, @AbolitionistFAA amicus author. Come to #Anaheim & vote to #changethedirection
20/20 @tomascol has steadfast endurance & hardy resilience due to his settled confidence: "We have a Book!" "Desperate times call for faithful men and not for careful men. The careful men come later and write the biographies of the faithful men, lauding them for their courage."
This is the kind of resolution that should be a no brainer for the @ERLC and SBC. "Resolution on Equal Protection of the Laws for Preborn" Read and sign! Childrenhttps://forms.gle/sR71x5jHLaQPA8QH9

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Mar 7
🧵Update on my bills from the Oklahoma Senate

Over the past five weeks leading up to yesterday's committee deadline, eight of my bills passed committee and are (or will very shortly be) eligible for a hearing on the House floor. This thread will highlight a few of them. (1/6) Image
First, SB550. This bill bans drag queens from perverse story hours on public property because we must protect our children from those who wish to sexualize them. It passed the Public Safety Committee 8-3.

If anyone wants to defend these twisted and perverse events, which are often marketed to children, please go watch the short YT documentary from @TexasScorecard, "It's Not Gonna Lick Itself", and get back to me.

I hesitate to even include the name of the documentary because of how gross it is, but exposing the vileness of what's being done to our kids sometimes means coming face-to-face with how disgusting it is. That was the name of a real drag event marketed to children. (2/6)Image
SB1121 is a bill to establish a joint House-Senate task force, with no fiscal impact to the state, to study what it would take to eliminate property taxes and replace the revenues with, ideally, consumption taxes and hopefully DOGE-like spending cuts. It passed the Revenue and Taxation Committee 8-3.

This bill was introduced alongside SJR12 which would be an amendment to the Oklahoma Constitution to entirely repeal property taxes in Oklahoma. Sadly, SJR12 did not receive a hearing, but we can still get the ball rolling with this task force, even though the real teeth are in SJR12. (3/6)Image
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Jan 29
🧵Contra Mr. Pornlawyer, publicly publishing prostitution footage is not "speech" in any meaningful sense.

Let's look at SCOTUS precedent.

The Miller Test, established in Miller v. California (1973), holds that "obscene material is not protected by the First Amendment." (1/10)
According to Miller, content can be banned if:

1. the average person would find that it appeals to the prurient interest;

2. the content depicts sexual conduct as defined by state law; and

3. the content lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. (2/10)Image
There is no question that modern pornography meets the standard of prongs 1 and 3. The only thing missing is prong 2: an Oklahoma law defining and prohibiting pornography. That is where my bill (SB593) comes in. (3/10)
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Jan 23
🧵MAKE OKLAHOMA HEALTHY AGAIN!

In line with the MAHA agenda, I have introduced six bills to improve quality, transparency, accountability, decentralization, and freedom in health and medical care.

First, SB943, the Medical Freedom Act, would establish that “The right of a person to refuse any medical procedure, medical treatment, device, vaccine, or prophylactic shall not be questioned or interfered with in any manner. The right of a person to public accommodation, to the equal protection of the law, and to seek restitution for harm shall not be denied or infringed upon because of the exercise of the rights contained in this section.”

This bill comes from model language written by @RMConservative. (1/9)Image
The Health Education Act is a bill to ensure that public school health curriculum stays in their proper lane of teaching nutrition, exercise, and physical health rather than wading into liberal versions of sex ed and psychological counseling that should be left to parents. (2/9) Image
Regarding this bill, as well as SB1017, I will be speaking at a rally on February 7th at the Capitol alongside other colleagues concerned with the problem of ever-expanding school-based health care that infringes upon parental rights.

I hope to see all Oklahomans there! (3/9) Image
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Jan 22
🧵NEW PRESS RELEASE: RESTORING A MORAL SOCIETY

The radical left has destroyed the foundations of Christian civilization such that many now consider normal a society drowning in hardcore pornography, prenatal homicide, and other evils. I introduced 8 bills to change that. (1/16) Image
First, the Abolition of Abortion Act (SB456). While Oklahoma clinics no longer perform abortion, ordering and ingesting abortion pills remains legal and accessible because of massive loopholes in our pro-life laws. We must close those loop holes.

Recently published research from @AbolitionistFAA shows that an estimated 3,274 of these self-managed abortions are occurring in Oklahoma annually. (2/16)Image
You can read the report here. We must not close our eyes to the continued reality of child sacrifice in pro-life states. We cannot ask God's blessing on our nation as we turn a blind eye to the mass murder of the innocent. We must abolish abortion. (3/16)
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Jan 18
“Repealing the income tax is a giveaway to the rich.” A response to moderates and leftists.

The income or labor tax is a control system that punishes everyone, especially the working class.

1. Taxing labor is an assault on human dignity

Taxing a person’s wages is a direct tax on their very ability to live. It tells the worker, “Before you can feed your family, we take our cut.” It means the state gets the first claim on a person’s time, effort, and productivity before they can provide for themselves and their families.

That is nothing short of state-sanctioned servitude. If a person does not own the fruits of their labor first, what freedom do they truly have?

Even liberals who talk about “economic justice” ought to see the problem here.

If a person does not own his own labor first, then he does not own himself. That is the moral foundation of this argument. There is no justice in a system that claims ownership over a man’s wages before he even sees them.

The government has no right to claim the first fruits of a man’s labor. It is HIS property and the just government is to preserve and defend people’s God-given, unalienable rights to their property by which they sustain their lives. This is a fundamental truth.

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2. The Income Tax Scam: How the rich get richer and the middle class gets crushed

Here’s the dirty little secret politicians do not want you to know: the wealthy suffer the least under income taxation. They have loopholes, exemptions, trusts, tax shelters, and the ability to move their wealth into non-taxable investments out of the IRS’s reach.

The ones who get hurt the most? The middle class—small business owners, skilled tradesmen, and young professionals trying to provide for their families, but bearing the weight of labor taxes. They do not have tax attorneys or offshore accounts.

They have paychecks—and the government siphons off a portion before workers ever touch them.

If you really want the rich to “pay their fair share,” stop penalizing the act of working. The current system punishes those who show up, clock in, and put in honest work.

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3. Income taxation keeps people dependent on government

Think about why so many people live paycheck to paycheck. For most, it is not because they are lazy. It is not because they do not work hard. It is because the government extracts a portion of every paycheck, forcing families into a system of dependency.

When the government seizes a portion of every paycheck, it creates a cycle of dependency where people rely on government services because their take-home pay is artificially reduced.

Instead of allowing families to build wealth and make independent financial choices, income taxation ensures they will always need government assistance/handouts just to get by, many of which are designed to be just enough to keep them in place but never enough to escape reliance.

Abolish the income tax, and you put power back in the hands of workers.

Stop penalizing work, and people will build financial independence instead of relying on government scraps.

Even a leftist who claims to care about the poor should understand this: you do not empower people by making them dependents.

But, maybe that’s the point of the labor tax—government dependency.

A society that rewards work rather than taxes it would create true economic mobility and reduce the need for endless social welfare programs.

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Jan 12
🧵 Sexual freedom isn’t free. God’s design for sex is the key to joy and thriving.

The world’s promise of pleasure apart from God’s design comes at a cost: broken families, ruined lives, victimized children, and a crumbling society.

Paganism offers this lie, but its “freedom” destroys everything good.

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What is paganism?

Paganism denies God’s Creator/creation distinction and rejects His natural order.

It blurs all boundaries—Creator/creature, male/female—and exalts human autonomy.

Egalitarianism is an expression of this rebellion, flattening God-given roles and hierarchies. The result, among other sexual immoralities and their effects:

• Pornography
• Premarital sex
• Adultery
• Homosexuality
• Abortion
• Transgenderism
• Transhumanism
• Bestiality

This rebellion leads to chaos and destruction.

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God’s design for sex is clear: one man, one woman, united in covenant marriage.

Sex within marriage is joyful and life-giving.

It is foundational for a thriving family and society.

Honoring the marriage bed is essential for both individual joy and societal flourishing.

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