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Oklahoma schools in revolt over Bible mandate
The Hill via Yahoo ^ | August 4th, 2024 | Lexi Lonas

Posted on 08/04/2024 2:46:17 PM PDT by Mariner

Educators in Oklahoma are refusing a state order to incorporate the Bible into their lesson plans, setting up an inevitable showdown with the start of the school year just weeks away.

Ryan Walters, the state superintendent of public instruction, last week released guidelines to schools for how they should be integrating the Bible into classrooms, saying educators who are against the initiative “will comply, and I will use every means to make sure of it.”

The message from some schools in the state: Bring it on.

“I suspect that the first thing that will happen is he will target a specific school district or multiple school districts who he believes are not complying with his directive, those school districts will then have to make a choice as to whether to bend [to] his whim or to sue,” said Rob Miller, superintendent of Bixby Public Schools.

“And I can tell you that if Bixby was one of those schools that he selected to come after, we would file a lawsuit,” Miller told The Hill.

Walters’s guidance, which follows a June announcement of mandatory biblical curricula for grades five through 12, says that lessons on the Christian text should emphasize its historical context, literary significance and artistic and musical influence. The guidance also says a physical copy of the book should be in every classroom, along with copies of the Ten Commandments, the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: 1a; 1stamendment; bible; firstamendment; freeexercisethereof; oklahoma
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Why does the state of Oklahoma insist on beating its head against the brick wall?

The USSC has ruled multiple times on this matter.

1 posted on 08/04/2024 2:46:17 PM PDT by Mariner
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To: Mariner

It’s about making a point.


2 posted on 08/04/2024 2:49:02 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Mariner

So? Dems ignore SCOTUS everyday.

“Educators” my behind. More like government bureaucrat administrators.


3 posted on 08/04/2024 2:49:03 PM PDT by Fledermaus (We Are Now In A Civil War!)
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To: Mariner

I guess democrats don’t have to obey laws…


4 posted on 08/04/2024 2:49:55 PM PDT by Skywise
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It's being taught as history. You can not understand Western Civilization without knowledge of the Bible & Judeo-Christian philosophy.
5 posted on 08/04/2024 2:50:01 PM PDT by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign! )
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To: HIDEK6

What is the point being made?


6 posted on 08/04/2024 2:50:37 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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Has the USSC ruled on having the pervert supremacists’ rainbow flag in classrooms?


7 posted on 08/04/2024 2:51:15 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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The atheists are coming out of the woodwork


8 posted on 08/04/2024 2:51:47 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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There may be ten teachers who don’t like it and are being termed educators.


9 posted on 08/04/2024 2:53:20 PM PDT by odawg
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All the butthole libtard Christian bashes like Miller coming out of the woodwork


10 posted on 08/04/2024 2:54:09 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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Satan is hard at work. Everyday, it’s something.


11 posted on 08/04/2024 2:54:30 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: Jim from C-Town

” You can not understand Western Civilization without knowledge of the Bible & Judeo-Christian philosophy. “

You can understand the role and significance even if you never read a single word of it.


12 posted on 08/04/2024 2:54:33 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: NWFree

Yes. You poked the hornets nest. You don’t have “educators”.


13 posted on 08/04/2024 2:54:55 PM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: NWFree

Like Rob Miller the butthole


14 posted on 08/04/2024 2:56:38 PM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: Jim from C-Town

You also can’t understand European history without learning Islam.


15 posted on 08/04/2024 3:01:13 PM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Indy Pendance
[Satan is hard at work. Everyday, it’s something.]

That is correct. Hereby shall ye know that spirit of antichrist. I've been around such folks - "church" folks - quoting the Bible made at least a couple of them physically-animated - it's quite a sight to see and you don't want to see it frankly


16 posted on 08/04/2024 3:03:45 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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indicative of the teaching staffs being mostly comprised of communists. Fire any teacher that refuses to comply.


17 posted on 08/04/2024 3:04:17 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: Mariner

That wasn’t your first question.


18 posted on 08/04/2024 3:04:33 PM PDT by HIDEK6 (God bless Donald Trump)
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To: Indy Pendance

1 John 4:2-4
King James Version

2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God:

3 And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20John%204%3A2-4&version=KJV


19 posted on 08/04/2024 3:07:28 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Mariner

We are backward bible thumping racist. Don’t move to Oklahoma.


20 posted on 08/04/2024 3:08:48 PM PDT by Iceclimber58
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