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Oklahoma Senator Caught In Hotel Room With Underage Boy

Do you know what "age of consent" means? I'm not defending the action or morality of it. Just pointing out the legal aspect conveniently ignored.

Ahhh but you don't know OKLAHOMA law, which the OKLAHOMA State Senator should be well aware of.

When it comes to PROSTITUTION it is a felony to have sex with a MINOR (under the age of 18). As a 'freebee' it would be legal, as a hooker and trick it isn't.

Welcome to the buckle of the Bible Belt... :peace
 
I was reading the laws and noticing that they do treat the under 18 differently, which doesn't make sense because their age of consent is 16. I'll bet his lawyer has fun with that inconsistency in law.

I'll take that bet... ;)

Been court tested, rabid right approved. The law is designed to prevent minor sex trafficking, a problem here in the Bible Belt. The FBI has conducted several raids in Oklahoma towns- OKC, Tulsa, and Lawton rounding up pimps, minors and johns. Back page was apparently the facilitator and has been shut down. Hit the whore house on saturday and church on sunday...

Money changes the 'consent' and is seen as coercion is the theory used.

Welcome to the Heartland (and we wonder why so many 'fly-over')... :peace
 
I dont care if the young man was of age. Holier than thou State Senator gets caught with male lover in motel, he is out of a job lying POS.

If you throw them all out for being a lying piece of horse pucky, then we would have none left.

He violated the law. At least it appears so, and that is what we should deal with for his job.
 
The inconsistency in law took me by surprise.

I should have known better.

If the age of 16 is the age of consent, then that should also be the division for other sexual matters.

So.......I wasn't wrong, was I?
 
Well, that guy is finished.

Well, you would think so. But this is Oklahoma, remember. As long as your a right wing nutjob, you can get away with anything.
 
Younger than 18 in Oklahoma is child prostitution.

This is the charge:


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Ralph Shortey charges | | normantranscript.com


Sounds serious over here on this side of the river. So as has been noted to the thread, if the right and religious ideologues would accept human sexuality rather than make up their own ideas about and against it, situations such as this among many others would need not occur.



LOL, if Shorty gets a free stay in 'Hotel Oklahoma' he won't have to pay for his sex with another guy .......
 
Lets see: Conservative, check, Evangelical Christian, check, Politician, check, Birther, check, State Chair for Trump Campaign, check.

Why is it that the most rock ribbed evangelical Christians always get caught doing this kind of stuff?


Oklahoma Senator Caught In Hotel Room With Underage Boy


Oklahoma Senator Caught In Hotel Room With Underage Boy
March 15, 2017 by Michael Stone 0 Comments

Family Values: Christian conservative and Republican state Senator Ralph Shortey is busted with an underage boy in his hotel room; police recommend 3 prostitution-related charges.

Senator Shortey, a member of Donald Trump’s leadership team in Oklahoma, will be charged with soliciting prostitution of a minor, prostitution within 1000 feet of a church, and transporting for the purpose of prostitution, according to a report filed by KOCO News.

Shortey was found with a teenage boy in a motel in the town of Moore on the night of March 9, after an anonymous tip was made to police requesting for a welfare check on the hotel room.

Lt. Kyle Dudley told NewsOK.com:

On March 9 … officers of the Moore Police Department were contacted in reference to a welfare check at a local hotel. Responding officers found a juvenile male in a hotel room which was also occupied by an adult male. The circumstances surrounding this incident are currently under investigation and no additional information can be released at this time.

Shortey, 35, represents Oklahoma City. Elected in 2010, the senator is a prominent Christian conservative in Oklahoma politics, known for being a birther, and a Trump supporter. Raw Story reports Shortey was the state chair of President Donald Trump’s campaign during the primary elections.

According to reports, Shortey “attended Heartland Baptist Bible College in Oklahoma City in preparation for mission work in Uganda,” before beginning his political career.

Before being busted with an underage boy in his hotel room, the anti-abortion, Christian conservative made national news in 2012 when he proposed a bill that would ban human fetuses from being used in food.
Well this sort of stuff probably happens to a lot of people from both sides of the political railroad track. But what gets me is the "party of family values" are harder on the left and not just as hard on their own when this goes down. :roll:
 
It looks bad, but even for a Trump supporting evangelical republican caught in a highly dubious situation, it is still innocent until proven otherwise. But the damage to his political career most likely is tremendous. Because let's be honest, it is not like he is Carlos Danger.
 
Ahhh but you don't know OKLAHOMA law, which the OKLAHOMA State Senator should be well aware of.

When it comes to PROSTITUTION it is a felony to have sex with a MINOR (under the age of 18). As a 'freebee' it would be legal, as a hooker and trick it isn't.

Welcome to the buckle of the Bible Belt... :peace

Likely irrelevant anyway, since i'd bet the farm they'll find evidence this 'holy roller' was screwing kids younger than 16. Even the one he was caught with, they had known each other some time
 
It looks bad, but even for a Trump supporting evangelical republican caught in a highly dubious situation, it is still innocent until proven otherwise. But the damage to his political career most likely is tremendous. Because let's be honest, it is not like he is Carlos Danger.

He may as well be, considering the amount of condemning he did of everyone who didn't live up to the very standards he failed to meet. For example, he wasn't going to do missionary work in uganda, home of the recent "kill the gays" law...thanks to those missionaries

I'm not in a very merciful mood right now, even if those kids ends up being relatively unharmed psychologically
 
prostitution within 1000 feet of a church

so prostitution is already illegal but it's even more illegal to do it within 1000 feet of a church. wtf


Before being busted with an underage boy in his hotel room, the anti-abortion, Christian conservative made national news in 2012 when he proposed a bill that would ban human fetuses from being used in food.

since when have human fetuses been used in food?
 
so prostitution is already illegal but it's even more illegal to do it within 1000 feet of a church. wtf




since when have human fetuses been used in food?

maybe we should organize an 'eat human fetuses' march to the oklahoma capital just to set them off. We'll grill us some fetus legs with honey mustard and a side of asparagus
 
LOL, if Shorty gets a free stay in 'Hotel Oklahoma' he won't have to pay for his sex with another guy .......
:lamo

2] Engaging in prostitution within 1000ft of a church

He's an Evangelist!
 
The inconsistency in law took me by surprise.

I should have known better.

If the age of 16 is the age of consent, then that should also be the division for other sexual matters.

To set the record straight....you were wrong and I was right. Correct?
 
so prostitution is already illegal but it's even more illegal to do it within 1000 feet of a church. wtf since when have human fetuses been used in food?

I do believe your state has similar laws. Many Conservative controlled state legislatures doubled down on the various 'War on _______' with 'upgrades'... :peace
 
I love how this thread is full of liberals condemning two legal age adults (in OK) for having consensual sex while in other threads they rail against prostitution laws as a victimless crime

One set of hypocrites condemning another hypocrite, smh
 
I love how this thread is full of liberals condemning two legal age adults (in OK) for having consensual sex while in other threads they rail against prostitution laws as a victimless crime

One set of hypocrites condemning another hypocrite, smh

I expect the underage aspect is the most concerning
 
I love how this thread is full of liberals condemning two legal age adults (in OK) for having consensual sex while in other threads they rail against prostitution laws as a victimless crime. One set of hypocrites condemning another hypocrite, smh

Oh spin spin my right wing friend....

It's one group condemning someone from another group who makes YUGE political hay from being part of the 'Upright Citizen's Brigade' gets caught with a minor, breaking some of the very laws he is fighting to re-instate in a voter mandated change to the drug laws... :doh

HE is pushing a state bill to put the felony BACK in simple drug possession to include near churches, schools, etc after WE removed it... :roll:

The more you know... :peace
 
Oh spin spin my right wing friend....

It's one group condemning someone from another group who makes YUGE political hay from being part of the 'Upright Citizen's Brigade' gets caught with a minor, breaking some of the very laws he is fighting to re-instate in a voter mandated change to the drug laws... :doh

HE is pushing a state bill to put the felony BACK in simple drug possession to include near churches, schools, etc after WE removed it... :roll:

The more you know... :peace

The American Talibornagains have a real problem with hypocrisy. They preach one thing, and do another. It would be hilarious if there weren't victims.

Its not consensual sex when one grownup is paying a 17 year old boy "baby boy" for sex in a crappy motel...and when the grownup is another of a long line of phony "christians" who preach one thing, but do something else.

Has nothing to do with liberal or conservative, it is about how perverted these hypocrites are in the real world.
 
I love how this thread is full of liberals condemning two legal age adults (in OK) for having consensual sex while in other threads they rail against prostitution laws as a victimless crime

One set of hypocrites condemning another hypocrite, smh

but it was underage prostitution. If no money was involved, this wouldn't be such a controversy.
 
Why is it that politicians get caught all the time regardless of their faith, or lack of.

Non Christians, and practicing Christians find this to be ugly.

Pig piling is one thing, but knocking Christians as being hypocrites is just another hack job on your part.


Remember Gerry Studds=a truth in advertising violation if I ever saw it.
 
but it was underage prostitution. If no money was involved, this wouldn't be such a controversy.

seems like both parties have plenty of cases of this

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_political_sex_scandals_in_the_United_States

I constantly bash "family Values" types when they engage in stuff they label "Sinful" when done by others. How many lefties on this board bash say the Clintons or Obamas for pretending to care about the income gap when both families have become filthy rich through public office? hypocrisy is not limited to a bible thumper getting a hummer from some male prostitute or banging some underage girl
 
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