Oklahoma defends Bibles-in-schools proposal after report that only Trump’s might qualify

A grift in broad daylight.

The "requirements":

a Bible that is bound by leather or material like leather
has the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights
is the New King James version of the Old and New Testament
has no commentary

has the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights
Why does a bible need these things?
- Because Trump's version has these things
- Conservatives want a collection of things they won't read or ban. This sums it up.
- If it doesn't contradict itself it's not Republican enough.
- I'm in sales and have seen the strategy discussed where if you're trying to sell a product to an institution with a formal bidding process to coach your contact to draw up requirements which only your product can meet.
I’d respect it more if it was just said right up front, “funding to the god-emperor by stealing from our children’s education.”
I guess the satanic temple could print an edition that matches those requirements and undercut Trump by like a dollar.
Is there a known beforehand contractor to provide these with a markup? I guess there's a shade of a simple local grift too.

Re-affirming its status as a shit-hole state.

Giving Idaho, Florida, and Texas a run for the money.

It's nice to see Oklahoma has resolved all their school supply shortages and have excess funds available. Perhaps they should issue state rebates back to the taxpayers. Edit: spelling

[Bring] the Bible in its essential historical and literary context to Oklahoma classrooms

I don’t know what America’s founding documents have to do with the context of ~300 AD (or whenever Christian texts were first organized into the New Testament). But I can’t think of many places whose founding would be more offensive to Jesus’s teachings than Oklahoma.

The whole south would be about the biggest possible fuck you to Jesus.
And if he ever came back i doubt he'd live to see trial much less his legal execution.
Bet the televangelists who demanded his death would be so upset they'd need to buy new private jets to get over it
- The South is like 30% black — majority black where I live — and the black churches organize around civil rights and charity. Jamelle Bouie recently noted that his religion professor once said, “In the black church tradition, Christians worship a Jesus who has been lynched. In the white church tradition, Christians worship a Jesus who could be forgiven for lynching"
  I’m personally secular but actually living in the South, it’s more complex than election maps make it seem. People doing work in Georgia against the odds flipped it blue.

I think it's some 3 million dollars they're going to spend on these? At least it's nice to know they will certainly be spending a similar amount on Qurans and whatnot /s

Aren't there a zillion constitutional lawsuits pending on this? Even if they get the bullshit "state's rights" treatments, why isn't there a ballot vote on this yet?

Aren't there a zillion constitutional lawsuits pending on this?
That's probably what they're counting on: one of those lawsuits reaching an extremely fundamentalism-friendly SCOTUS that is then likely to throw away the establishment clause or at least bypass it with impressive-sounding nonsense.

Speedrun to antichrist status

Total bullshit in multiple dimensions and it should never even be considered. That said, as a former bible student turned atheist, if they're going to have bibles in school a good option would be NRSV, or the funny option would be The Cotton Patch bible.

Don’t worry, kids will make sure these bibles are not colored in and trashed in a variety of ways.

Oooh, I hadn't considered that. There will be so many dick drawings in there by the end of the first year.
I would hope but OK is still pretty religious.