I keep telling you that the Republicans don’t believe that the Constitution applies to them.
You know the part that says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...”
The Superintendent seems to be on a mission from god,,, to make everyone good little Christians.
However the Oklahoma Supreme Court just shot down another attempt to bring in religion into the school system but the court said no!
The Republicans are kowtowing to the evangelicals every wish in make this a Christian Nation!
But wait, there’s more!
You know the part that says, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...”
This looks like one-upmanship with Louisiana!Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters orders schools to teach the Bible
Walters issued his edict days after the state Supreme Court ruled against a publicly funded religious charter school.
NBC News
By Tyler Kingkade
June 27, 2024Oklahoma will require schools to teach the Bible and have a copy in every classroom, the state’s top education official announced Thursday.
Effective immediately, Oklahoma schools are required to incorporate the Bible as part of the curricula in grades five through 12, according to a memo Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters sent to all school districts. Schools are instructed to refer to the Bible and the Ten Commandments for their “substantial influence on our nation’s founders and the foundational principles of our Constitution.”
“Immediate and strict compliance is expected,” the memo noted.
Walters said at a state Board of Education meeting Thursday, “We’ll be teaching from the Bible in the classroom to ensure that this historical understanding is there for every student in the state of Oklahoma.”
“This is textbook Christian Nationalism: Walters is abusing the power of his public office to impose his religious beliefs on everyone else’s children,” Rachel Laser, the group’s CEO, said in the statement. Her organization is “ready to step in,” she wrote, though she stopped short of vowing legal action. The group has already sued to block a new Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools.
Walters, a former high school history teacher, has built a national profile over his first year and a half in office as a staunch proponent of incorporating Christian beliefs and teachings into state education policy.
Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, recently approved a package of regulations put forward by Walters that included time for prayer in schools and expanded the state Education Department’s “foundational values” to acknowledge a “Creator” and the existence of good and evil.
But Walters has also drawn pushback. Stitt issued an executive order this month prohibiting state agencies from entering into sole-source contracts with marketing and public relations firms after Walters hired a public relations firm at $200 per hour to help him get national media attention.
The state Supreme Court ruled this week that a state contract to fund a Catholic charter school violated both state and federal law and must be voided. It would have been the country’s first religious charter school.
Walters called the ruling “sanctioned discrimination against Christians” in a statement. “This ruling cannot and must not stand,” he wrote.
But wait, there’s more!
Oklahoma Mandating Bibles In School Classrooms—Just Days After State Court Rejects Religious Charter School
Forbe
By Brian Bushard
June 27, 2024Bibles will be required in public school classrooms in Oklahoma, state officials announced Thursday, the latest development in a years-long debate over introducing religion into public school curriculum that comes just days after the state Supreme Court struck down a proposed publicly funded Catholic charter school as unconstitutional.
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The announcement marks a political win for religious conservatives, who for decades have pushed for an increase in religious teaching in public schools, despite widespread pushback over the blurring of public education and religion, an argument backed by the Constitution’s separation of church and state.
Onward, Christian Soldiers
Marching as to war
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before!
Christ the royal Master
Leads against the foe;
Forward into battle
See His banners go!
Onward, Christian Soldiers
Marching as to war
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before!
Like a might army
Moves the Church of God!
Brothers, we are treading
Where the saints have trod!
Marching as to war
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before!
Christ the royal Master
Leads against the foe;
Forward into battle
See His banners go!
Onward, Christian Soldiers
Marching as to war
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before!
Like a might army
Moves the Church of God!
Brothers, we are treading
Where the saints have trod!
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