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Oklahoma gov returns the favor with travel ban on pro-abortion California
LifeSite News ^ | 1-28-20 | Calvin Freiburger

Posted on 01/28/2020 8:50:14 PM PST by ReformationFan

OKLAHOMA CITY, January 28, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – The City of San Francisco and the State of California have gained notoriety over the past few years for banning city employees from paid work trips to states with conservative values, and now the Oklahoma Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt has decided to return the favor.

Stitt issued an executive order last week banning state-funded travel to California, citing the Golden State’s intolerance of pro-life neighbors, KFOR reported.

“California and its elected officials over the past few years have banned travel to the State of Oklahoma in an effort to politically threaten and intimidate Oklahomans for their personal values,” Stitt declared in a statement. “Enough is enough. If California’s elected officials don’t want public employees traveling to Oklahoma, I am eager to return the gesture on behalf of Oklahoma’s pro-life stance. I am proud to be Governor of a state that fights for the most vulnerable among us, the unborn.”

In 2017, California Democrat Attorney General Xavier Becerra unilaterally prohibited state-sanctioned trips to Alabama, Kentucky, South Dakota, and Texas over their laws respecting the conscience rights of religious adoption agencies and student groups. A year later, it added Oklahoma to that list, and as of last year the number of blacklisted “anti-LGBT” states was up to 10.

The City of San Francisco, meanwhile, bars employees from work trips to 22 states in protest of their “restrictive” abortion laws (with their definition of “restrictive” broad enough to include left-wing Massachusetts). Oklahoma lawmakers have advanced numerous pro-life, pro-family policies in recent years, including a ban on dismemberment abortions, a requirement that women be informed about reversing abortion pills, and protection for religious adoption agencies’ right to place children only in homes with both a mother and a father.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: california; kevinstitt; oklahoma; prolife; sanfranpsycho; sanfransicko; stitt
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Good for the governor of Oklahoma.
1 posted on 01/28/2020 8:50:14 PM PST by ReformationFan
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To: ReformationFan

Bump


2 posted on 01/28/2020 8:52:17 PM PST by foreverfree
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To: ReformationFan

That’s just so Great.....States against states......games are on!


3 posted on 01/28/2020 8:52:36 PM PST by caww
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This could get interesting...


4 posted on 01/28/2020 8:54:38 PM PST by goodnesswins (Want to know your family genealogy? Run for political office...")
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To: ReformationFan

Good for him. Screw California


5 posted on 01/28/2020 8:55:27 PM PST by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: ReformationFan

i wonder why other states haven’t done this in retaliation


6 posted on 01/28/2020 8:57:18 PM PST by Mount Athos
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Sounds like Oklahoma has a great governor!


7 posted on 01/28/2020 9:00:35 PM PST by Cedar
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“Good for the governor of Oklahoma”

Agreed.

But I doubt the State of California will notice.


8 posted on 01/28/2020 9:09:46 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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without okies, there would be no Bakersfield.


9 posted on 01/28/2020 9:11:03 PM PST by olesigh
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“without okies, there would be no Bakersfield.”

Truth.

Both of my parents were born in OK.

The Grapes of Wrath settled in the Central Valley.


10 posted on 01/28/2020 9:17:35 PM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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For the life of me, I don’t know why anyone who doesn’t live in California want to go there. There are PLENTY of nice places to go and things to see without supporting the leftarded government of that state.


11 posted on 01/28/2020 9:20:05 PM PST by vpintheak (Leftists are full of "Love, peace" and bovine squeeze.)
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States should ban their export of electricity into California.


12 posted on 01/28/2020 9:21:39 PM PST by Karl Spooner
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To: ReformationFan

Here and there, Republicans are learning from Trump.


13 posted on 01/28/2020 9:37:49 PM PST by tinyowl
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To: Cedar

Oklahoma was the only state that had no counties that went for POSObama in either 2008 or 2012,


14 posted on 01/28/2020 9:57:31 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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Every single Republican governor should do the same thing to california.

JoMa


15 posted on 01/29/2020 1:59:49 AM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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We need a LIKE button.


16 posted on 01/29/2020 2:32:01 AM PST by Veggie Todd (Voltaire: "Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool".)
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“ States should ban their export of electricity into California.”

Not to mention water.


17 posted on 01/29/2020 3:46:39 AM PST by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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Before we get all misty over this guy, remember that, contrary to the will of Oklahomans, he affirmed his commitment to receive raghead invaders, er, "refugees."

That was a slap in the face to his constituents.

18 posted on 01/29/2020 4:20:16 AM PST by LouAvul
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To: vpintheak

Exactly. Plus in California you can be murdered by an illegal alien, and there will be no justice.


19 posted on 01/29/2020 4:30:03 AM PST by EvilCapitalist (If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement. -Ronald Reagan)
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In Canada should ban its water from the thirsty state. I still remember on a cross-country trip, when I was about 20, travelling with my first boyfriend and sleeping in the back of a pickup truck with a camper top, driving through very dry Arizona and coming across this massive fountain at some restaurant or place I can’t remember. It was just so incongruous


20 posted on 01/29/2020 7:35:16 AM PST by proud American in Canada (Trump 2020!)
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