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.

  • @solsangraal@lemmy.zipEnglish
    138•1 month ago

    the party of “stop indoctrinating the kids” fixing to fucking brainwash the fuck out of the kids

    • BarqsHasBite
      38•1 month ago

      They say “kids who are homeschooled are more likely to have their parents values” and then decry brainwashing in school.

    • VanonEnglish
      23•1 month ago

      Obligatory “every accusation is a confession” from the GOP (“Gaslight Obstruct Project”).

    • @GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      19•1 month ago

      The thing is they see christian values as the default. As the historical, centuries old standard. It can’t possibly be brainwashing to live to the values of your forefathers right?

      So they see everything new as suspicious by default. And if it’s new and counter to the historical values they espouse, it’s deviant and “indoctrination” by new, inauthentic standards.

      Obviously this is all bogus, but it’s the dance they do.

  • Flying Squid
    48•1 month 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.

    • @eRac
      8•1 month ago

      It won’t go to SCOTUS because the AG would have to defend it for it to go anywhere.

  • @Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
    40•1 month 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.

    • BakkodaEnglish
      5•1 month 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.

  • @teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
    40•1 month ago

    500 bibles for $25,000? That’s $50 per Bible that were 100% made in China for about $3 each. Someone report this to DOGE!

  • @MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
    38•1 month 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.

  • Zier
    36•1 month ago

    Always remember, and never forget… it’s a cult.

    • @olympicyes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6•1 month 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.

  • Bone
    23•1 month ago

    These stupid fucks hollering about wokeism and then ushering in the bible. I hope people see through this.

    • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3•1 month ago

      Unfortunately, the collateral damage is the education and future of these kids. And ultimately, our own future, as entire generations of uneducated, misguided people (let’s be real, in this situation: men) grow up and begin running the world.