Below are posts associated with the “Oklahoma” tag.
🔗 linkblog: State Education Department Seeks Bids for 55,000 Classroom Bibles - Oklahoma Watch'
This makes a bad story even worse. What a joke.
🔗 linkblog: Oklahoma’s State Superintendent Requires Public Schools to Teach the Bible'
I’m not necessarily opposed to teaching the Bible in public schools, but if you’re going to do it, you should do it right: Compare and contrast the creation accounts, discuss different authors’ conflicting takes on issues, and treat it as literature. That’s clearly not what Walters is advocating for, and his approach is indefensible.
🔗 linkblog: Oklahoma Threatens Librarians: ‘Don’t Use the Word Abortion’'
Libraries are a key part of a democratic society, and this is a very worrying development.