Dusty Deevers

Dusty Deevers (born 1977 or 1978) is an American politician and pastor who has served as a member of the Oklahoma Senate since December 2023, for the 32nd District, which includes his hometown of Elgin. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Early life and education Dusty Deevers was born in 1977 or 1978 and raised in Elgin, Oklahoma. Since 2016, he has served as the pastor for Grace Reformed Baptist Church of Elgin. He is also the CEO of Deevers Properties. In 2021, Oklahoma Watch reported on Deevers's anti-vaccine rhetoric, including comparing vaccine mandates to the Nuremberg laws.

Southern Baptist Conference In June 2023, Deevers was nominated to be the vice-president of the Southern Baptist Convention and received 20% of the vote, losing to Jay Adkins. Deevers criticized SBC President Bart Barber's hiring of Brent Leatherwood from the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission as the SBC chief ethicist.

Oklahoma Senate Deevers filed for the special election to fill John Montgomery's seat in the Oklahoma Senate after Montgomery resigned to serve as the president of the Lawton Chamber of Commerce. He faced Jennifer Ellis, JJ Francais, and Jean Hausheer in the Republican primary. During the primary, Deevers was targeted by negative ads from a "dark money" political action committee. He won the primary with 37% of the vote. He won the general election on December 12, 2023, defeating the Democratic nominee, former University of Oklahoma football player Larry Bush. The Oklahoman described his campaign as focusing on culture war issues. He was sworn in on December 20, 2023.

In 2024, he authored a bill, cosponsored by Senator Warren Hamilton, "classifying abortion as homicide, which allows both doctors and mothers to be prosecuted." They could "face up to the death penalty if charged with first-degree murder, though the bill makes exceptions to save the life of the mother and for spontaneous miscarriages." It also "allows for wrongful death lawsuits on behalf of fetusus."

Political positions

Deevers has been described by Rolling Stone as a Christian nationalist and as far-right by the Oklahoma Voice. Baptist News Global described him as an "ultra-conservative Baptist pastor" in 2023.

Abortion Deevers self-identifies as an "abortion abolitionist," meaning he does not support abortion under any circumstance. In 2024, he introduced a bill that would charge women getting abortions with murder. Deevers and Senator Warren Hamilton "spoke in favor of stricter laws at a rally organized by the groups Abolitionists Rising and Abolish Abortion Oklahoma at the state Capitol in early February" of 2024.

Marriage In 2025, he authored SB 228, which sought to create the Covenant Marriage Act of Oklahoma, allowing Oklahomans (of either gender) to enter a covenant marriage, and also offered a $2,500 income-tax credit.

Also in 2025, Deevers said that Obergefell v. Hodges, a 2015 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, is not settled law, saying "there is just no right to gay marriage in the Constitution ... no Supreme Court ruling that redefines a God-ordained institution is ever truly settled: not morally or culturally, and even constitutionally. The rogue court will stand in judgment before God for their decision."

Deevers advocates ending no-fault divorce. In 2025, he authored SB 829, a bill to aiming prohibit no-fault divorce in Oklahoma. Deever's proposal received national attention, with Rolling Stone describing it as "extreme – even for a Christian nationalist."

A year later, Deevers again introduced a bill to criminalize the production and distribution of pornography, with a prison sentence of 10–30 years for "organized pornography trafficking." The bill also criminalizes drag performances.

Electoral history