Deevers self-identifies as a “constitutionalconservative” for marketing purposes, but doesn’t actually recognize theConstitution; instead, Deevers explicitlydismisses any notion of separation of church and state,has vowed to apply“the word of God to every issue” andbelieves thatthe Bible “has prescribed governing and then He has also prescribed themeans for our governing and that means is in accordance with His word. If we dootherwise, then we are essentially usurping the sovereign role of God throughChrist, who has been seated above every power in Heaven and on Earth and underthe Earth.” Or, if it is still unclear: “Either you’re coming under therule of God, your Creator […] you’re going to come under the rule of theserpent. So, it’s a serpentine theocracy or a rule of God, and there’s not aspace in the middle.” Indeed, Deevers have emphasized, literally,his wish to take the US back to the 1600s,well before the Constitution and that liberty thing and those ideas ofinalienable rights arrived to undermine good theocracy: “Why can’t I go backto a ‘Lex, Rex’ age [1644], or a ‘Vindiciae Contra Tyrannos’ age [1579]?”asks Deevers.

Deevers also self-identifies as an “abortionabolitionist” and is the author (co-sponsored with Senator Warren Hamilton)ofa bill classifying abortion as homicide,which would allow both doctors and mothers to be prosecuted and to potentially facethe death penalty if charged with first-degree murder. The bill also allows forwrongful death lawsuits on behalf of fetuses. And for those who might beconcerned about the relationshipbetween anti-abortion measures and IVF,at leastDeevers is clear:parents who use IVF are “waging an assault against God.” He alsoadvocates ending no-fault divorce.

In 2024, Deevers alsointroduced a billto ban all pornography, i.e. anything involving sexual acts, nudity, partialnudity, or any content that appeals to a sexual fetish, such as BDSM. Accordingto the bill, anyone who buys, views, procures, or possesses porn would bepunished by up to 20 years in prison, while anyone who poses for or otherwiseassists or offers to assist in the production and distribution of suchmaterials would be punished with a year in prison. Initially, he didn’t evenbother to try to invoke the Constitution for that one, but insteadlectured fellow lawmakers abouthow pornography is a tool of Satan and must be outlawed so people “can beset free” to give their lives to Jesus, and pointed out that anyone whoviews pornography knows that they are violating “the holy character of God”.This is“spiritual warfare”,said Deevers.But he also – perhaps dimly aware that someone who is a self-proclaimed“constitutional conservative” should pretend to care about the Constitution –eventuallywent on to claim that“Our Constitution says this very thing: We get our rights from God” (itmost certainly says no such thing but “constitutional conservatives” are notthe kind of people who care about distinguishing the Constitution fromimprecise allusions to the Declaration of Independence), and that thereforeGod’s law, as Deevers interprets it, supersedes what the Constitution actuallysays. He has elsewhereproudly explained howthe justification for bills he introduces is built entirely on provisions fromthe Bible.

As you might expect from someone likeDeevers, he is also rabidlyanti-vaccineand not afraid to deploy every anti-vaccine gambit and conspiracy theoryin the book,no matter how silly. Deevers is particularly inclined to going Godwin, andhe hasfor instance comparedvaccine mandates to the Nuremberg laws. Before being elected senator, Deeversalso claimed that governments were pushing the vaccine under the cover ofutilitarianism, and “these were the same equations, the same moralprinciples that were used in the 19th and 20th centuries to immunize thesociety against becoming infected with bad genes, Jewish genes, low IQ genes”(it most certainly was not) – note also the presupposition that governments areintentionally using vaccines to kill people – beforeinvoking the Nuremberg Code,whichantivaxxers like doingbut which Deeversseems to understand not much betterthan he understands vaccines: “You do understand what road this is headingdown,” said Deevers. “If they can force you by utilitarianism to take ajab for a disease, they can force you to do it to protect you from people whoseIQ is lower than yours or people whose skin color is different than yours,”just like governments being able mandate seatbelts (or restrict access to porn)means that they can also force you to commit genocide or put people inconcentration camps, just like that.“Andthey’vedone it over and over.”

Of course, Deever is not alone – indeed,the Oklahoma state legislature have been plagued by frothingly insane religiousfundamentalist anti-vaccine conspiracy theoristsfor a while,such as governorKevin Stitt,the aforementionedWarren Hamilton,state senator andcreationism advocateNathan Dahmand state senator Jake Merrick, former pastor at Tulsa’s Living RiversMillennial Church (led by the militant anti-vaccine activist Paul Brady), allof whom, like Deevers, spent time others could have spent doing good in thelegislature pushing for abortion bans and laws to block vaccine mandates.

Diagnosis: In fairness, Deevers is, as a senator,doing exactly what he promised he would do as a senator during his campaign.Unfortunately, what he promised to do was fighting for a kind of raw theocracythat would make hardened Taliban veterans blush. Completely insane.