Articles
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Higher Education, Culture & the Family
Senate votes to ban DEI at Oklahoma colleges
“Diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI) programs would no longer receive state funding under legislation that seeks to make permanent the restrictions already imposed on state colleges through an executive order.Ray Carter | March 28, 2025
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Culture & the Family
Oklahoma Senate approves protections for Christian foster parents
Members of the Oklahoma Senate have passed legislation that would protect religious couples from being required to set aside their beliefs in order to serve as foster or adoptive parents.Ray Carter | February 26, 2025
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Law & Principles, Culture & the Family
Ban on men in women’s prisons clears committee
Legislation that would prevent officials from housing “transgender women”—men who self-identify as females—alongside women in state prisons has advanced from an Oklahoma Senate committee.Ray Carter | February 11, 2025
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Culture & the Family
Christian foster parents’ rights preserved by Oklahoma bill
Christian couples could not be required to set aside their religious beliefs about transgenderism in order to serve as foster or adoptive parents in Oklahoma under legislation approved by a Senate committee.Ray Carter | February 10, 2025
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Energy, Culture & the Family
Court ruling a warning for Oklahoma state pensions
A recent ruling by a U.S. District Court validates Oklahoma’s anti-ESG law and fires a warning shot across the bow for the managers of state pension systems.Jonathan Small | February 10, 2025
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Culture & the Family
OKC conference will explore Christian worldview
A Feb. 1 conference at Oklahoma Christian University in Edmond, conducted by Colorado-based Summit Ministries, will offer Oklahomans the chance to review the Christian worldview at a time when it is often under attack.Ray Carter | January 22, 2025
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Culture & the Family
Oklahoma Democrats fight to let men use women’s bathroom
Democratic lawmakers started the new year arguing that men should be allowed to use the women’s bathroom at the back of the Oklahoma House chamber.Ray Carter | January 16, 2025
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Culture & the Family
Survivor of communism warns Oklahoma audience of Chinese influence
Lily Tang Williams warned an Oklahoma City audience of the perils of communism and against allowing the Chinese government to increase its leverage through business ties and higher education.Ray Carter | January 14, 2025
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Culture & the Family
Medical research bolsters case for Oklahoma sex-change law
An article published in the medical journal Cureus found that adults who undergo so-called “gender-affirming” surgery have a 12.12-fold higher suicide attempt risk than those who did not.Ray Carter | January 9, 2025
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Law & Principles, Culture & the Family
With conservative populism ascendant, let’s rediscover this influential Oklahoman
With Trumpism ascendant in the GOP, now is a good time to rediscover a long-dead Oklahoman who was the premier American theorist for conservative populism.Rick Farmer, Ph.D. | December 27, 2024