Oklahoma’s public schools are now mandated to include teachings about the Bible and the Ten Commandments, according to the state’s top education official, Ryan Walters. In a memorandum, Walters stated that the Bible and the Ten Commandments are fundamental aspects of Western civilization.
He said the decision was effective immediately.“This is not merely an educational directive but a crucial step in ensuring our students grasp the core values and historical context of our country,” Walters, a Republican who was elected to the role in 2022, said in the memorandum.
He noted the “substantial influence” the Bible and Ten Commandments had on the country’s founders and the Constitution.
President and chief executive of the nonprofit group Americans United for Separation of Church and State called the decision a “transparent, unconstitutional effort to indoctrinate and religiously coerce public school students.
“This is textbook Christian Nationalism.”Walters is abusing the power of his public office to impose his religious beliefs on everyone else’s children,” Laser said in a statement.
The Oklahoma Education Association strongly condemned the decision, asserting that the order directly contradicts a state Supreme Court ruling that affirmed school districts’ authority to select the books available in their classrooms.
“The State Superintendent cannot usurp local control and compel education professionals to violate the Constitution,” the group said in a statement on X. The association added that teaching about the historical context of religion is permissible, but teaching religious doctrine isn’t.
Walters insists that schools should teach the Bible as a historical document, emphasizing its role in American history. He firmly believes that this decision will thwart efforts from the radical left to rewrite history by removing the Bible from schools.
Louisiana’s governor unequivocally signed into law a requirement for the display of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms, reigniting intense debates about the separation of church and state. Civil liberties groups, including Americans United for Separation of Church and State, have wasted no time in challenging this law in court.
The opening of the country’s first religious charter school, St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School, was blocked by Oklahoma’s Supreme Court.
The court unequivocally declared that the school violated both the state and U.S. constitutions. The school plans to appeal the case to the Supreme Court.
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Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?
Romans 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Romans 6:3 Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?
Romans 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.
Romans 6:5 For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection:
Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth “we should not serve sin”.
Romans 6:7 For he that is dead is freed from sin.
1 Peter 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.
1 Peter 2:2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby.
John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
2 Timothy 2:15 “Study” to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
2 Timothy 3:17 That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all good works.
2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is God-breathed, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Proverbs 4:20 My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings.
Proverbs 4:21 Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart.
Proverbs 4:22 For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.
Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Proverbs 3:6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
Psalms 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
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