Because they have to use the same text for 30 years due to lack of funding.
GOP in Louisiana and Oklahoma requiring 10 Commandments, Bible in Public Schools | OK wants Trump Bibles in classrooms
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evrheel
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GOP in the South have never been big fans of the Constitution
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Despite failing students, teachers, and schools, Walters has nevertheless tapped the state coffers to pay a Washington, DC-based media firm up to $5,000 a month to project a cartoonish image of a macho Christian culture warrior by writing his op-eds and speeches and booking him for media appearances.
Local investigative journalism hasblown the lid off of his vanity project—which, as it happens, is directly connected to Project 2025. Walters had the state contract with Vought Strategies for his public relations campaign. The president of Vought Strategies (whose name bears an eerie resemblance to the evil corporation in the popular TV show The Boys) is Mary Vought, who’s also VP of Strategic Communications at the Heritage Foundation, which published the Project 2025 handbook.
That’s right. Vought is in charge of the Heritage Foundation’s communications and in charge of Walters’ image and speaking.
This is not a minor coincidence. Walters appears to have bent the rulesand gone out of his way to contract with Vought’s group. Mary Vought previously recognized her husband Russ Vought on the Vought Strategies website (that has since changed, though it’s unclear whether the relationship has changed or simply their public acknowledgement of it). Russ Vought, one of the masterminds behind Project 2025 (he wrote a big part of their playbook), is a self-described Christian nationalist who runs the Center for Renewing America, whose top issues include “Christian nationalism.” Russ also ran the Office of Management and Budget for the Trump administration.
First Liberty Institute, a Christian nationalist legal outfit based in Texas, is among Project 2025’s “advisory partners” and represents Walters in the religious public school case mentioned above. Walters has advocated mandatory “patriotic training” for teachers from Hillsdale College, another Project 2025 advisory partner. Walters appointed a team to completely rewrite Oklahoma’s social studies standards that includes David Barton of Wallbuilders, Dennis Prager of PragerU, and Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation and the man who literally wrote the foreword to the Project 2025 playbook.
This overlap in personnel between Oklahoma and Project 2025 is more striking given Project 2025’s emphasis on personnel, even quoting the axiom “personnel is policy” in the first substantive note in the 900+ page playbook. …”
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Despite failing students, teachers, and schools, Walters has nevertheless tapped the state coffers to pay a Washington, DC-based media firm up to $5,000 a month to project a cartoonish image of a macho Christian culture warrior by writing his op-eds and speeches and booking him for media appearances.
Local investigative journalism hasblown the lid off of his vanity project—which, as it happens, is directly connected to Project 2025. Walters had the state contract with Vought Strategies for his public relations campaign. The president of Vought Strategies (whose name bears an eerie resemblance to the evil corporation in the popular TV show The Boys) is Mary Vought, who’s also VP of Strategic Communications at the Heritage Foundation, which published the Project 2025 handbook.
That’s right. Vought is in charge of the Heritage Foundation’s communications and in charge of Walters’ image and speaking.
This is not a minor coincidence. Walters appears to have bent the rulesand gone out of his way to contract with Vought’s group. Mary Vought previously recognized her husband Russ Vought on the Vought Strategies website (that has since changed, though it’s unclear whether the relationship has changed or simply their public acknowledgement of it). Russ Vought, one of the masterminds behind Project 2025 (he wrote a big part of their playbook), is a self-described Christian nationalist who runs the Center for Renewing America, whose top issues include “Christian nationalism.” Russ also ran the Office of Management and Budget for the Trump administration.
First Liberty Institute, a Christian nationalist legal outfit based in Texas, is among Project 2025’s “advisory partners” and represents Walters in the religious public school case mentioned above. Walters has advocated mandatory “patriotic training” for teachers from Hillsdale College, another Project 2025 advisory partner. Walters appointed a team to completely rewrite Oklahoma’s social studies standards that includes David Barton of Wallbuilders, Dennis Prager of PragerU, and Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation and the man who literally wrote the foreword to the Project 2025 playbook.
This overlap in personnel between Oklahoma and Project 2025 is more striking given Project 2025’s emphasis on personnel, even quoting the axiom “personnel is policy” in the first substantive note in the 900+ page playbook. …”
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I mean how about Shop
Mulberry Heel
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Walters is a genuine nutcase as well as a totally amoral and ruthlessly ambitious egomaniac. Having said that, there does (finally) appear to be a growing backlash to Walters even in deepest-red Oklahoma. Walters has defiantly refused to obey even his heavily Republican state legislature and refused to give money appropriated by the legislature to improve security procedures in state school districts, and the legislature has opened a formal investigation into Walters and his handling of the OK Department of Education finances. Walters held a surprise press conference last week and bizarrely demanded that his fellow Republicans in the legislature just go ahead and start impeachment hearings for him. In the best Trumper fashion he is also portraying himself as the "victim" of elitist RINOs in the legislature. I do think he's in real trouble as he appears to have alienated nearly the entire OK GOP power structure. He's a dangerous dude, but especially to public ed in OK. If Morrow is elected I'm afraid that we may see much of the same happen here in NC.
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You know who else begged for impeachment proceedings to be started against themselves once people stated poking around in their finances (in an effort to avoid prison time)? Spiro Agnew.
(I'm finally getting around to listening to the Bagman pod. Better late than never. I highly recommend it.)
ZenMode
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Who needs education. The Lord will provide.
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DougDaBroadcasta
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At this point, there's only one thing that will stop these people.
The vote.
They will never stop. They believe they are acting in a holy way. They will not stop trying. The only way to stop them is to not let them get into elected office.
The vote.
They will never stop. They believe they are acting in a holy way. They will not stop trying. The only way to stop them is to not let them get into elected office.
How about the parts that are unConstitutional?
BlooVooDoo
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Are you confused because they use a version of the Old Testament that was created about 8-9 centuries after Jesus? That's okay. They allowed for that. When Jesus or the apostles quote the Old Testament , they go back to the version that Jesus actually learned.The King James Version for historical accuracy
Sometimes things get tough when you have to find loopholes for the sponsor to use for a legal divorce. Iirc, that didn't work out anyway, so, being typically Christian, he just started a new denomination which made it all okay, or so I'm told.
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“… Separation of church and state concerns aside, much less expensive Bibles are readily available. Paperback versions of the New King James Version are available online for $2.99 each, less than 5% of what the Trump-endorsed Bible would cost. There are many free Bible apps, too.
Though Walters has frequently said he wants Bibles in every classroom, he has also clarified publicly that he wants them in classes where the Bible might apply to academic standards, such as history or literature. The request for 55,000 copies doesn’t fit either scenario; there are only 43,000 classroom teachers in the state, and many fewer teaching just history or literature.
If the Bibles cost $60 each, and the state buys 55,000, that’s $3.3 million. …”
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Though Walters has frequently said he wants Bibles in every classroom, he has also clarified publicly that he wants them in classes where the Bible might apply to academic standards, such as history or literature. The request for 55,000 copies doesn’t fit either scenario; there are only 43,000 classroom teachers in the state, and many fewer teaching just history or literature.
If the Bibles cost $60 each, and the state buys 55,000, that’s $3.3 million. …”
'Trump Bible' one of few that meet Walters' criteria for Oklahoma classrooms
Bibles endorsed by former President Donald Trump cost $60 each online, with Trump receiving fees for his endorsement.
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More on Trump Bibles being made in China and other details:
apnews.com
I had missed the special assassination attempt edition:
Also of note for this thread in the article:
"... There’s a potentially lucrative opportunity for Trump to sell 55,000 of the “God Bless the USA” Bibles to Oklahoma after the state’s top education official ordered public schools to incorporate Scripture into lessons for grades 5 through 12. Oklahoma plans to spend $3 million on Bibles that initially matched Trump’s edition: a King James Version that contains the U.S. founding documents. The request was revised Monday to allow the U.S. historical documents to be bound with the Bible or provided separately.
Oklahoma’s Department of Education did not answer AP’s questions about whether the Bibles must be printed in the United States or if any department officials have discussed the proposal with Trump or his representatives.
“There are hundreds of Bible publishers and we expect a robust competition for this proposal,” said department spokesman Dan Isett. ..."
Trump has long blasted China's trade practices. His 'God Bless the USA' Bibles were printed there
Global trade records show a printing company in China’s eastern city of Hangzhou shipped close to 120,000 of the Bibles to the United States between early February and late March.
apnews.com
I had missed the special assassination attempt edition:
Also of note for this thread in the article:
"... There’s a potentially lucrative opportunity for Trump to sell 55,000 of the “God Bless the USA” Bibles to Oklahoma after the state’s top education official ordered public schools to incorporate Scripture into lessons for grades 5 through 12. Oklahoma plans to spend $3 million on Bibles that initially matched Trump’s edition: a King James Version that contains the U.S. founding documents. The request was revised Monday to allow the U.S. historical documents to be bound with the Bible or provided separately.
Oklahoma’s Department of Education did not answer AP’s questions about whether the Bibles must be printed in the United States or if any department officials have discussed the proposal with Trump or his representatives.
“There are hundreds of Bible publishers and we expect a robust competition for this proposal,” said department spokesman Dan Isett. ..."
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We use to have Courts to keep these guardrails
Really don't now about 75% of the time