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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTeacher Forced to Teach Trump Bible Reveals What Is (and Isn't) in It
https://newrepublic.com/post/201057/teacher-forced-donald-trump-bible-whats-in-itDonald Trumps Bible includes some interesting details.
Oklahoma public school teachers are required to teach the Bible to their studentsbut the copies they received from the state earlier this month to do so dont accurately reflect history.
Former state Superintendent Ryan Walters placed a 55,000 unit order for new Bibles in October, but the parameters he set for permissible editions were eyebrow-raisingly specific. Bid documents required the successful edition to include the King James text as well as several core elements of U.S. history lesson plans, including copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the U.S. Constitution. That narrowed the pool down to one option available on the market: Donald Trump and Lee Greenwoods God Bless the U.S.A. Bible.
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The version of the Constitution delivered to Oklahomas classrooms for statewide instruction was 160 years out of date and excluded more than a dozen amendments.
Notably, the incorrect version still featured the three-fifths compromise, a vestige of slavery that handed more political power to slave-owning states, while omitting the Thirteenth Amendment, which officially abolished slavery. The incorrect edition also lacked the Fourteenth Amendment, which constitutionalized the right to due process and granted citizens equal protection under the law, shielding them from state action.
In addition, Trumps Bible is missing the Nineteenth Amendment, which grants women the right to vote; the Twenty-Second Amendment, which limits the president to two terms in power; and the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, which lowered the legal voting age from 21 to 18.
Altogether, Trumps God Bless the U.S.A. Bible, as delivered to Oklahomas public schools, did not include Amendments 11 through 27. The text of the Bible itself appeared unchanged from the King James version.
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Former state Superintendent Ryan Walters placed a 55,000 unit order for new Bibles in October, but the parameters he set for permissible editions were eyebrow-raisingly specific. Bid documents required the successful edition to include the King James text as well as several core elements of U.S. history lesson plans, including copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the U.S. Constitution. That narrowed the pool down to one option available on the market: Donald Trump and Lee Greenwoods God Bless the U.S.A. Bible.
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The version of the Constitution delivered to Oklahomas classrooms for statewide instruction was 160 years out of date and excluded more than a dozen amendments.
Notably, the incorrect version still featured the three-fifths compromise, a vestige of slavery that handed more political power to slave-owning states, while omitting the Thirteenth Amendment, which officially abolished slavery. The incorrect edition also lacked the Fourteenth Amendment, which constitutionalized the right to due process and granted citizens equal protection under the law, shielding them from state action.
In addition, Trumps Bible is missing the Nineteenth Amendment, which grants women the right to vote; the Twenty-Second Amendment, which limits the president to two terms in power; and the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, which lowered the legal voting age from 21 to 18.
Altogether, Trumps God Bless the U.S.A. Bible, as delivered to Oklahomas public schools, did not include Amendments 11 through 27. The text of the Bible itself appeared unchanged from the King James version.
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Teacher Forced to Teach Trump Bible Reveals What Is (and Isn't) in It (Original Post)
erronis
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BlueWaveNeverEnd
(11,414 posts)1. ..and Ryan Walters just quit after messing up the school system
sunflowerseed
(459 posts)2. That was intentional!
Wounded Bear
(63,070 posts)3. Gee, ya think? nt
flvegan
(65,307 posts)4. And that's how you get ranked 50th in public education. Great job
Oklahoma, you fucking idiots.
"Oklahoma public school teachers are required to teach the Bible to their students"
What do they do with the non-Christian children when it's pseudo-Bible teachin' time?
Never mind. I actually don't want to know.