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Last week, Rep. Kevin Calvey, R-Oklahoma City, got animated during debate on Senate Bill 548, which would provide 6 percent raises, paid from court fees, for Supreme Court justices and other appellate court judges and employees.
Photo - Oklahoma State Rep. Kevin Calvey, R-Oklahoma City, the bill's author.
Oklahoma State Rep. Kevin Calvey, R-Oklahoma City, the bill's author.
The bill ended up passing and returns to the Senate for final consideration.
Calvey is upset with court rulings that have gone against efforts to restrict abortions and said that withholding the pay increase would be effective in punishing the justices.
He loudly said that if he were not a Christian, he would go across the street to the state Supreme Court building, douse himself in gasoline and set himself on fire to protest the evil in that building.
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-lawmaker-threatens-to-set-himself-on-fire-over-abortion-issue/article/5414125?utm_source=NewsOK.com&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=NIC-Facebook
His Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kevin-Calvey-For-Congress/108156455907112?fref=ts&ref=br_tf
(My question is, will it be on Pay-per-view?)
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)Who will bring the weenies?
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)IcyPeas
(21,887 posts)JeffHead
(1,186 posts)blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)TheMastersNemesis
(10,602 posts)Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Why these people run for offices I will never know. Guess voting and courts should not have a say.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)They constantly whine about how persecuted they are.
Prove it.
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)Let the motherfucker burn.
haele
(12,660 posts)Does he mean to say only that he thinks only Satan would direct people to practice self-immolation as the last attempt in a virtuous protest against an unbearable Evil?
His God must not want any more martyrs.
Or maybe Mr. Calvey is more concerned about being comfortable and "respected" in his little circle of friends than of truly being righteous - that is, if God is really that concerned about a secular law over someone's personal choices and health.
I suspect that a Creator God that created the entire universe and all it's wonders - and terrors - is not that much of a micro-manager and could care less about what one individual life-form out of septillionths of magnitude of life forms out there believes, or to severely punish the smallest slights or "breaking" of social rules of any similarly small grouping of people with furious discipline.
I also (politely) would suspect that amongst many things, Mr. Calvey's universe, maturity level, and experience is very, very small.
Haele
kimbutgar
(21,160 posts)Unless you can get pregnant you should stfu. But I'd love to see you be a crispy critter jerkoff.
newfie11
(8,159 posts)JHB
(37,160 posts)Caretha
(2,737 posts)I could prove him not a "Christian". You think he really would do it if I did?
The SOB loves himself too much for that, but I am willing to call 911 - I learned early that if anyone threatens suicide, just pick up the phone and press 9 1 1.