Oklahoma's attorney general said the state schools superintendent cannot mandate students watch a video announcing a new Department of Religious Freedom and Patriotism.

Summary

Oklahoma’s Attorney General rejected State Education Superintendent Ryan Walters’ directive requiring schools to show a video announcing a new Department of Religious Freedom and Patriotism.

The video, which includes a prayer for Trump, was sent to schools and parents, but multiple districts have refused to comply.

The AG’s office called the mandate “unenforceable” and a violation of rights.

Walters, known for opposing “woke ideology,” also faces lawsuits over requiring Bible-based lesson plans and purchasing Trump-endorsed Bibles for classrooms, which critics argue breaches church-state separation.

    • Timmy_Jizz_Tits@lemmy.world
      20·
      4 days ago

      This has been their MO for years. A good documentary called “Jesus Camp” was made in like 04. It was about a children’s religious summer camp. It ended with a bunch of children praying to a literal life sized cardboard cut out of W Bush. Those kids are like 30 now and likely have their own kids. They’re just so fucking weird.

  • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
    26·
    4 days ago

    requiring schools to show a video announcing a new Department of Religious Freedom and Patriotism.

    The video, which includes a prayer for Trump,

    Every day there’s something.

    • Bakkoda@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      His kind of rhetoric requires immersion. The citizens need to be surrounded by as much as possible. It’s only believable if you hear it so much it almost loses meaning. That’s the only way it’s gonna work which is why it’s happening.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    32·
    5 days ago

    And now it goes to SCOTUS and SCOTUS declares this a Christian country and then all kids will be mandated to pray in school.

    America is swirling around the bowl and heading down the pipe fast.

  • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
    22·
    5 days ago

    And to be clear, the guy pushing this directive is possibly getting tapped to run the Department of Education. I am so fucking glad I didn’t/won’t have children. Sorry parents who voted against this.

    • olympicyes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      4 days ago

      This video is bizarre. There’s a ton of static noise, there’s computer clicking, and it stops before he even finishes the prayer! I thought this was a screen grab with a live mic but then I saw that it was posted by the OK DOE.