Okies Refuse The Preachy!

The white privilege is back. Oklahoma school superintendent opens up state religion office and demands public schools teach the bible.

The First Amendment is under attack. Of course, y'all voted for this.

Oklahoma School Superintendent Ryan Walters announced that the bible will taught in the public schools. He won't be to do it on the reservations.

This will be unprecedented. This allows one religion to overcome others.

Walters, a Republican who is a white nationalist dares the Biden Administration to sue him. Now that Donald J. Trump won another term, Republicans are getting ready to push forth policies that are unpopular regardless of what you think. They will overplay their hand and eventually voters will reject them.

Walters demanded schools to pray for Trump.

Christian and Jewish supremacy is threat to America. With the U.S. in lockstep with the apartheid ethnostate of Israel and the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, the incoming Trump administration will continue on the policies that could drive us to global war as well as a civil war.

Walters has already gotten refusal from some of the cities.

At least seven large Oklahoma school districts said Friday they have no intention of showing a video of Walters discussing his state agency's new Office of Religious Liberty and Patriotism, despite Walters saying doing so was required.

Superintendents of the Edmond, Mustang, Moore and Norman districts each sent a letter to parents and others saying they would not show the video. The Tulsa World reported the Owasso and Tulsa districts wouldn't share the video, and news website Oklahoma Voice quoted the Mid-Del Schools superintendent, Rick Cobb, as saying his district would also forego showing the video.

The state attorney general's office backed the districts up. “There is no statutory authority for the state schools superintendent to require all students to watch a specific video," said Phil Bacharach, a spokesman for the state attorney general's office. "Not only is this edict unenforceable, it is contrary to parents’ rights, local control and individual free-exercise rights.”

Okie dokie. Walters poses with Vance.

Walters' emailed edict was sent just hours after the agency he runs, the Oklahoma State Department of Education, issued a news release in which Walters said more than 500 Bibles had been purchased for Oklahoma public schools, specifically for Advanced Placement Government classrooms.

The announcement and the video — which did not provide specific details about how the Bibles were procured or how much the books cost — are the latest in a flurry of moves by Walters as he works to elevate his national profile.

He is considered a potential pick for the Department of Education. Walters and Trump have called for the department to be abolished. 

Walters used $3 million of taxpayer money to purchased bibles with the God Bless the USA mantra.

A member of the Republican Party, he has been a vocal critic of critical race theory, LGBT students' rights, and teachers' unions in Oklahoma and has been described as "the state's top culture warrior".

During his tenure, he has campaigned for the removal of Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist and supported the political organization Moms for Liberty, which the Southern Poverty Law Center has described as an "extremist" and "antigovernment" group. Since February 2024, Walters has been criticized for his appointment of Chaya Raichik to the Oklahoma Library Advisory Board, and stances on transgender youth and students following his response to the death of Nex Benedict. Walters has directed "that every teacher, every classroom in the state will have a Bible in the classroom and will be teaching from the Bible in the classroom." In November 2024, Walters emailed Oklahoma public school leaders, requiring them to play their students and parents a video of Walters blaming the "radical left" and "woke teachers unions" for "attacking" religious liberty, then inviting students to join him in prayer over President-elect Donald Trump.

In September 2024, Walters opened bids to supply the Oklahoma Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles. The bid documents required that "Bibles must be the King James Version; must contain the Old and New Testaments; must include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and must be bound in leather or leather-like material." Only two Bibles fit all criteria: Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A. Bible" (endorsed by Donald Trump, who receives fees for copies sold), which sells for $60, and the "We The People Bible" (endorsed by Donald Trump Jr.), which sells for $90. Free or far cheaper versions of the Bible are readily accessible. The company Mardel Christian & Education said that none of the 2,900 versions of the Bible that it sells can meet Oklahoma's requirements. The King James Version (KJV) is favored by many conservative evangelicals, but is rejected by Catholics and not favored by most mainline Protestants. Multiple state legislators and a state school board member criticized Walters' proposal on legal and constitutional grounds. Former Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson said that the request for proposals (RFP) was not genuinely competitive and thus might violate state law. Democratic state senator Mary Boren criticized Walters' RFP as a flagrant violation of the separation of church and state (as guaranteed by the state Constitution), and for favoring the KJV over other Bible translations (such as the Latin Catholic Bible, New International Version, or English Standard Version). Days after the criticisms arose, the RFP was revised to say the American founding documents may be included within or separately from the Bible. Walters stated in a video, "The left-wing media hates Donald Trump so much, and they hate the Bible so much, they will lie and go to any means necessary to stop this initiative from happening." In November of 2024 Walters announced the purchase of 500 “God Bless the USA” bibles by emailing school superintendents and demanding that they show students a prerecorded video of the announcement. In the video he made generalized accusations against his political opponents before praying for “President Trump’s Team”. This is despite the fact that in Oklahoma local school districts determine school curriculum and his office doesn’t have that power.