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 States 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 Californias elected officials dont want public employees traveling to Oklahoma, I am eager to return the gesture on behalf of Oklahomas 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.
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That’s just so Great.....States against states......games are on!
This could get interesting...
Good for him. Screw California
i wonder why other states haven’t done this in retaliation
Sounds like Oklahoma has a great governor!
“Good for the governor of Oklahoma”
Agreed.
But I doubt the State of California will notice.
without okies, there would be no Bakersfield.
“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.
For the life of me, I dont know why anyone who doesnt 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.
States should ban their export of electricity into California.
Here and there, Republicans are learning from Trump.
Oklahoma was the only state that had no counties that went for POSObama in either 2008 or 2012,
Every single Republican governor should do the same thing to california.
JoMa
We need a LIKE button.
States should ban their export of electricity into California.
Not to mention water.
That was a slap in the face to his constituents.
Exactly. Plus in California you can be murdered by an illegal alien, and there will be no justice.
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
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