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...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
NYT
NOT YOUR TRUTH
LIES, LIES LIES !!!
They are just projecting from Biden’s carnival of corruption and greed.
If I remember correctly this involved teaching the Bible as literature and to show how it has influenced non-religious subjects. It should be taken for granted that knowledge of Scripture is necessary to understand Western culture. That does not imply an endorsement of Christianity.
Doesn’t MSM and in particular the NYT realize that no one is buying this boogey man Trump routine? He was POTUS for four years, so people know what they are getting with Trump and it doesn’t resemble the monster the MSM is portraying.
Unfortunately they do not want to "understand Western culture," they want to destroy it.
Just shows you how desperate they are.
You are the reincarnation of Rush Limbaugh.
Rush always believed that anyone who still supported The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate had an evil and criminal heart, mind and soul.
The Hitler routine didn't resonate, so ...
That headline. Wow. These people are the purest evil. They don’t believe anything of what they’re saying.
BTW, the Bibles are to be used for reference and there is no defined or directed curriculum around them. Not a thing wrong with that. The opposition paints a different and not true story. I do think Walters is a little heavy handed in the specifications. What looks strange, probably is. Walters is busy digging himself a hole to fall in so let's don't bother him too much before he finishes.
If he really wants to reform, improve and reduce the cost of schools in Oklahoma he needs to consolidate all the rural school districts to save a ton of money. Being a superintendent of one of these little fiefdoms is one of the best rural jobs you can have and one of the best retirements possible in rural Oklahoma.
how many of these Big Lie smears of President Trump is the NYSlimes pumping out, anyway!?????? Seemingly several every d***ed day!
The commie/Nazi/Progressive/ExtremeLeftists are patently very very worried
KJV? OK, but include the Douay-Rheims as an alternative.
A carnival would be much better than the 3 ring circus we have now.
I just can’t forget when Trump gave an ultimatum to Ukraine to get rid of a prosecutor who was after his son and, when Ukraine gave in, he gloated, “well, son of a bitch, he got fired.”
Oh, wait...that wasn’t Trump. Hmmmm. I wonder who that was?
“The $59.99 “God Bless the USA” Bibles ... cost 20 times more than a mass market paperback version of the King James Bible.”
You can buy a good quality Bible for under $3?
New York Times is garbage!!!!!
Meanwhile the EPA is spending 36 billion on grants to newly formed non-profits to promote equity in renewable energy. “community driven solutions” means they are sending the money to their cronies. All this money is going to the pockets of the deep state. It’s not 2 dollars per book. It’s probably 100 billion. We spend 800 billion on weapons to fight wars provoked by the deep state, who leave the State Department and the military to work for Raytheon. General Dynamics, Lockheed...
https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-announces-43-billion-grants-community-driven-solutions-cut
His administration would have a high goal to exceed the corruption of the Biden/Harris RICO operation.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.