Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters is pushing to put more Bibles in the classroom, but which ones?

A report from from The Oklahoman confirmed that Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters is pushing to put more Bibles in the classroom, but it appears the bid might have been rigged to benefit Donald Trump.

The Oklahoma Department of Education opened bids this past week to vendors to supply the Department with about 55,000 new Bibles to place in the public schools system.

According to The Oklahoman, the requirements for the vendors include:

“Bibles must be the King James Version; must contain the Old and New Testaments; must include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and must be bound in leather or leather-like material.”

Is it a coincidence that few Bibles meet those requirements? The Bible endorsed by Trump, however, does. Trump receives fees for endorsing musician Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the U.S.A. Bible, which has been endorsed by Trump., and those Bibles likely would meet Oklahoma’s requirements.

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  • @_bcron_English
    38•3 hours ago

    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.

    Conservatives, everyone. Don’t worry, a bunch of people will sue due to the anticompetitive and nonsensical nature of requirements and waste even more taxpayer money.

    • @givesomefucksEnglish
      18•3 hours ago

      The requirements literally violate church/state seperation because it requires a specific version of the Bible that also has to contain things like the constitution and declaration of independence.

      No one makes a bible like that because it doesn’t make any sense.

      • @_bcron_English
        8•3 hours ago

        You can buy a 5 dollar bible and just stuff them in as inserts. I recommend you place a bid lol

        https://sde.ok.gov/ev00000555

        Edit: this an ambulance chaser’s and an opportunistic troll’s wet dream

        • @[email protected]English
          1•3 minutes ago

          Nowhere does it say that it should only contain the listed requirements. If you are the lowest bidder, I‘m sure you can throw in a few bonus pages about the importance of the right to choose, equality, other religions and much more. The possibilities are endless.

      • @[email protected]English
        2•2 hours ago

        The dumbest thing about this is, doesn’t the Trump bible only contain the parts of the constitution that they like, and omit others? So if the requirement is that it contains “the Constitution”, does the Trump bible even really qualify?