Oklahoma Gov Signs Bill Allowing Students To Leave School Three Periods Per Week For Religious Lessons

These same republicans constantly complain and bitch about public schools teaching things other than standard education.  They complain about woke subjects and learning true history for example.  Back to the basics is their goal they claim.  But letting kids miss classes for religious church lessons is great they claim.  Kids don’t need schooling they need bible and more bible.  Who needs reading especial about people who are different from the majority when they can learn bible by sitting in church having someone tell them what they think god said or meant.  And it must be their god not one of those false ones that the bad people worship.  Public school is for the multiple of people who believe different things, in different gods or no god.  They have churches for that.  Keep god in your church and out of public schools.   Hugs.  Scottie  

 

Oklahoma City’s NBC affiliate reports:

Governor Stitt signed legislation Wednesday on a framework for public school students to get credits by attending religious instruction during school hours. “What HB 1425 does is that it gives the schools a framework,” said Representative Clay Staires (R-Skiatook), who authored the bill.

Starting in November of this year students from all grade levels would understand their opportunity when leaving their classroom during school and heading to a religious instructional class that has to be off-site. Another rule is that it cannot be led by the school or anyone employed with the school.

Students would be allowed to leave for three class periods a week and 125 class periods a year to attend it. The Satanic Temple announced that if Governor Stitt signed HB 1425 they would offer up their instructional programs.

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Below, Christian nationalist state education Superintendent Ryan Walters says satanism is not a religion and therefore leaving school to attend classes offered by atheist trolling outfit the Satanic Temple will not be permitted.

As for Gov. Kevin Stitt, he last appeared here in March 2024 when he declared that God personally had him elected to stop abortion in Oklahoma.

Stitt, who appeared here in November 2023 when he publicly praised illegal cockfighting, is a self-avowed Christian nationalist.

Last year he declared November to be “family month as ordained by God.” In June 2023, he authorized the nation’s first state-funded religious charter school.

In 2022, he claimed “every square inch of Oklahoma in the name of Jesus.” Upon his inauguration, Stitt’s wife declared that his administration’s main priority would be “bringing people to Jesus.”

 

Superintendent Ryan Walters says satanism is not a religion and therefore leaving school to attend classes offered by atheist trolling outfit the Satanic Temple will not be permitted.

Fingers crossed for the lawsuit this will bring.

Supreme Court rulings have been clear that you don’t have to prove that your religion is “true” – since that’s impossible, of course.

 

But we’ve seen how much regard the current corrupt SQOTUS has for precedent or “settled law”.

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The IRS Officially Recognizes the Satanic Temple as a Church.

Being granted tax-exempt status essentially means that the Satanic Temple has the same legal protections that other religions do, including “access to public spaces as other religious organizations; affirming its standing in court when battling religious discrimination; and enabling The Satanic Temple to apply for faith-based government grants,” according to a press release sent to Rolling Stone.

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Religion does not belong in politics even thought they are like a cancer. If schools can delete Black and Gay studies calling it indoctrination yet encourage religious studies . That is the personification of Hypocrisy

Bet the Satanic Temple’s lawyers will have something to say about the first amendment not magically applying to them because some rando says so.

  • FYI: The other nonChristian faiths will inevitably be conflated with Satan.

    There goes math and science classes.

    So the next time the conservative brown shirts start screaming about “the basics” and “the 3 r’s”, remind them that “religion” isn’t one of them.

    For a few seconds, I was thinking at least these sessions won’t take place in school, and then I saw that the state is determining exactly which religions for which this will be allowed.

    They can’t schedule religious classes before or after school or on weekends? They have to have them during math or history or English class? What bullshit!

     

    SPLC Reports 50% Surge In White Supremacist Hate Groups, 33% Rise In Anti-LGBTQ Hate Organizations

    Again the haters spewed their bigotry non-stop for years, over shooting any other voice, we have to raise our voice just as loud.  We were stomping this shit out until the cult of tRump maga made being a low intellect gang thug the in thing.  This is driven by those who insist on controlling the lives of others, to make others live as the haters are comfortable with.     Hugs.  Scottie

     

    The Florida Phoenix reports:

    Emboldened by the mainstreaming of hard-right politics ahead of a presidential election cycle, white nationalist and anti-LGBTQ+ groups increased to record levels in the United States last year, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s latest annual report on hate and extremism. The SPLC, which has published the annual report since 1990, documented 835 active anti-government groups, up 133 from 2022’s count, and 595 hate groups, an increase of 72 over the previous year’s figure.

    Accounting for a large portion of the increase was a 50% surge in white supremacy hate groups in 2023, the highest jump ever recorded by the SPLC, growing to 165 over 109 in 2022. White power and neo-Nazi rallies across the U.S. totaled 143 in 2023, down from 191 in 2022. SPLC saw a 33% rise in anti-LGBTQ+ organizations over last year, bringing the total to 86. The group said the growth was largely attributable to the anti-trans movement on the far-right.

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    Trump emboldened them. These folks were always racist and sexist but they knew to disguise it. Now they are proud of it. It’s no surprise that they want to belong to groups of like-minded groups. The Klan used to hide. Now some similar groups wear masks but many do not. They don’t hide their identities because they don’t feel they need to. We have to prove them wrong.

    I think 6 members of SCOTUS have even more to do with it.

    Fear of the “other” has animated Republican politics since forever. If it isn’t LGBT people, it’s immigrants. In his weekly screed, Andrew Sullivan blames Biden for “losing” the election to Trump over immigration, all without ever mentioning the fact that Republicans, on marching orders from Trump, squashed bipartisan legislation to secure the southern border. Funny how that rather important element is simply ignored. Block Javascript to read:

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    The hubby and I got a couple of guns (locked away for safekeeping) but if push comes to shove, we’re not going down quietly.
    Hate to have to think that way now.

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    Jeanine Pirro Falls For Viral “Invisible Chair” Moment At Biden Speech

    Does it surprise anyone at this point that Fox is a lying media arm of the republican part.  They are militant in their pro any thing hard core right wing and anti anything about democrats / Biden.  They have become a parody and a joke.  Sadly far too many watch them and believe their crap.  Hugs.  Scottie

    A clip has now gone viral showcasing a manufactured “awkward” moment where Biden apparently tries to sit on an invisible chair.. except there is a chair there and he does sit down.

    Breaking Bannon

    A well-intentioned intervention for Steve Bannon. Because I’m worried about him.

    D-DAY JUNE 6th 1944! My Father would be 101 yrs old June 21st.

    My father served in the Royal Canadian Navy 1939-1946. He served on a Destroyer, a few Frigates, and on 2 Corvettes. ** SOME LANGUAGE **

    I love her words, all of them, and she makes a lot of sense. Hugs. Scottie

    Let’s talk about a Biden fact check and Ukraine….

    These clowns couldn’t organize a 1-car funeral procession in a town with 1 one-way street.

    As always I love that TG posts on Mock Paper Scissors.   I know we share many of the same viewers … but this is too damn good not to repost.   Thanks TG.  Hugs.  Scottie

    “Trump Can’t Be Stopped…” Psalm 15 Has Something To Say About That…

    Convicted Felon and Adjudicated Rapist Donald Trump said what?

    Reality means nothing to him and his cult.  He says three different contradictory things before breakfast and his cult buys into each one.  When it is said about him though … no way … and they scream violence and hate on everyone.  They are a cult.  The republican party is no more.  It is the cult of tRump party, and his people control all the party apparatus.  They are in charge of the most important thing in that former party, the money and the base.  So the rest bow down, do what is demanded / needed kiss what he tells them too, and they get to stay in their office.  Why is that so important.  Don’t the public realize, a seat in federal, and even some what to a smaller degree, a seat in federal congress is the the golden ticket to wealth and fame.  Republicans don’t give a shit about governing, most of them hate it and don’t know how to do it.  To them it is the way to riches and power.  That is their turn on, their goal in life.  As it is their god they follow, the Dear Leader tRump.  Hugs.  Scottie