Posted on 10/22/2024 10:01:44 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
By now, the story has made the rounds. Back in June, Oklahoma’s superintendent for public instruction, Ryan Walters, ordered every classroom in the state to teach the Bible between fifth grade and high school. Three months later, when he released the guidelines for companies bidding to supply the Bibles, they included some unusually specific terms.
The Bibles had to contain not just the King James Version of the Old and New Testaments, but founding documents like the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, as well as the Pledge of Allegiance. And they had to be bound in leather, or some reasonable facsimile.
The only Bibles that fit these parameters happen to be endorsed by Donald Trump or his son. The $59.99 “God Bless the USA” Bibles (which are, incidentally, printed in China) cost 20 times more than a mass market paperback version of the King James Bible. It’s not clear how much Mr. Trump earns per sale — The Times has reported that he receives royalties for use of his name — but his cut is likely significant. Mr. Walters’s spokesman has confirmed that the $3 million in the state budget earmarked for Bibles came directly from “payroll savings”; that could pay salaries for 75 entry-level teachers in Oklahoma.
Maybe a rogue ideologue handing a chunk of Oklahoma’s education budget to the former president strikes you as egregious. It should also strike you as familiar. Mr. Trump’s entire term in office was marked by profit-taking schemes and uses of public funds for personal benefit. If we know anything about what life would be like if he wins again, we know this bottomless...
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How is this different from mandating gay porn in school libraries and rainbow flags in classrooms?
Even more so than now? I doubt it!
Yeah, President Trump is in it for the money. That’s the ticket.
It’s different by being better.
They are really desperate. The attacks are being ramped up noticeably.
The Bible is the true word of God Almighty Himself and the gay porn is of satan.
Yes, good observation.
Where do these idiots come from?
And how do they all get jobs at the New York Times and Washington Post and MSNBC?
You'd be hard put to top a $145 million bribe to the Clinton Foundation but I do believe Crooked Joe and his merry little corruption gnomes managed it.
Every hour, another bold-face ^%*&^^$&%#&*^*&^ lie!
How does this so-called “paper of record” stay in business? Serious question.
Because so many senior staffers and advisors from Trump's first Administration go so bloody rich defending themselves against baseless lawsuits and DOJ felony charges.
You do realize I was illustrating the absurdity/hypocrisy of pervert supremacists, not advocating gay porn, right?
What does Trump have to do with how Oklahoma runs its schools?
The article starts off being inane.
-PJ
Watching them come apart at the seams is so enjoyable.
He is in it to re-establish slavery, throw all LGBTQ+s off the roof of tall buildings, force women back into the home, church and kids ONLY, and strip all social progress since 1900! Keep your eye on what he actually will do!
Yeah, yeah ... promses....
This is amusing. I am laughing
I got held up seeing that the Bibles are KJV. Why not at least NKJV or CSB?
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