Steve Hickey is a former state representative for South
Dakota’s 9th district (2011 to 2015) who received even some national
attention when he sponsored a bill that would allow businesses to deny services
to same-sex weddings or any others that violate their “sincerely held religious
beliefs.” According to Hickey,
gay rights are taking the United States “down the road of Iran,” which is
certainly an odd claim to make (Iran still has a death penalty for
homosexuality).
Hickey’s main characteristic seems to be a persecution complex that might make even Todd Starnes blush. When resigning from the legislature,
he was ostensibly going to continue his studies of Christian ethics with a focus on the power of modern surveillance deployed
by governments, which he took to be of particular importance since two-thirds of the world is hostile to
Christianity. Said differently: If you don’t share his beliefs, you are
hostile, an attitude that is the very definition of a persecution complex. He
is also bizarrely obsessed with anal sex,
going on about it at length even when it is entirely irrelevant to the topic at
hand.
Presumably, this Steve Hickey,
who has voiced his opposition to having high standards of evidence in medical
research, apparently because quackery can’t meet them, is a different one.
Diagnosis: A rather off-putting and unsavory fellow. At
least he’s (apparently) out of the legislature by now.
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