Steve Hickey passed Friday according to a comment from family at his Faceberg page. He underwent a double lung transplant in 2022 but in January reported he had several blood clots in those organs.
Professor Hickey hailed from Kansas City, Missouri, served as a Republican South Dakota legislator and Sioux Falls pastor and had been teaching at Alaska Christian College. He and this blog didn't agree on everything but we both loathe video lootery, reject racism, want to end capital punishment and support truth and reconciliation for catholic clergy crimes. He worked with a gay Democrat to end predatory lending in South Dakota then cast away many of the tenets and most of the objectives of the SDGOP. He earned a Ph.D at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland with focus on Tolstoy's interpretation of the Sermon on the Mount and became a tireless advocate for Indigenous land rights.
Highly distrustful of the medical industry his FB comments in recent weeks trended toward the cynical and desperate but he deeply loved his family and the KC sports teams.
"Today, Governor Larry Rhoden ordered that flags be flown at half-staff at the State Capitol from sunrise until sunset on Wednesday, July 2, 2025, in honor of former state legislator Steve Hickey."
ReplyDeleteA memorial service will be conducted at Peninsula Grace Church, Wednesday (today) at 10 AM AKT (1 PM CDT) and live-streamed at Steve's FB page.
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