Tulsans angry over ‘enforced’ Christianity in schools
Undeniably, Tulsa is mostly a Christian city – and while there’s nothing wrong with this, some Tulsans took offense to a new proposal that would bring Christianity to the forefront of Tulsan schools. This came after news broke out that faith advisers wanted State Superintendent Ryan Walters to “enforce” a daily, minutes silence in schools, post the Ten Commandments in every classroom and create a compulsory ‘Western Civilization’ course for high school graduation requirements.
This originated as a letter to the Oklahoma State Department of Education a few months ago but has since developed into more stringent demands.
Now, obviously there’s nothing wrong with Christianity and America is still very much a Christian country. Nonetheless, this proposal hasn’t gone down very well with locals. Speaking on social media, they wrote, “When it comes to religion, to paraphrase what Christians have been saying about my community: I don’t care what you do in the privacy of your home but the moment it starts getting pushed on me and mine, we have a problem. This business of putting it in schools is pushing on me and mine and we have a problem” which was followed up by another comment, adding “I’m curious how they think they’ll get the Ten Commandments through. I guess since Texas failed in the Senate Oklahoma will be the test case.”
With this being said, despite a lot of uproar from both sides of the argument, it looks as though this one isn’t a starter and doesn’t really have much substance to become an actual law or policy. If it were to happen, it would also take several years due to the various laws that would need to be passed – so for now, it looks like Tulsa will have to wait to see if this actually becomes a reality.
I don’t feel like this will be a good thing bc we have diversity in our schools of different religions and yes I’m a Christian but I still don’t feel this will be a good thing js
Putting this in schools is what America needs in this wicked world. Insisting of having a silence of prayer would an amazing way of also giving reverence to God. We need prayer back in schools.
We are very much not a Christian nation or a Christian city. Never have been, never will be. We are a nation and a we are a city with a lot of Christians, but no state-mandated faith for either. Separation of Church and State. The Founding Fathers, in spite of many of them being Christians, explicitly built this into the framework of the nation and by extension her cities.
They’re teaching other religious practices a force feeding school children anti-Christian propaganda ie. woke agenda. Christian’s deserve equal status as others. Love conquers all.
A moment of silence doesn’t mean just a Christian prayer, it can be just a moment for a child to either prayer to their own diety or to just reflect on the day. No one can tell them what to think or do during the moment of silence, just to be subject and let all pray or not as their belief says to do.
Evidently, separation of church and state doesn’t apply in Oklahoma!
Doesn’t seem too….time to start looking for distance learning options