Contemporary Examples. 1  Allowing some people to discriminate sends the message that discrimination is okay. 2  Allow small businessesâfor-profit wedding chapels, caterers, floristsâto discriminate against gays. 3  Yup, Evelyn and Donald Knapp are âordained Christian ministersâ suing for the right to discriminate.
Choctaw County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 15,205. Its county seat is Hugo. The county was created in 1907, at the time of Oklahoma statehood.
Planned by the Five Civilized Tribes as part of a state of Sequoyah, the new Oklahoma state also named the county for Pushmataha, an important Choctaw chief in the American Southeast. He had tried to ensure that his people would not have to ceded their lands, but died in Washington, DC during a diplomatic trip in 1824.