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Wednesday, September 27th, 2023

Oklahoma superintendent vows to ‘fight the radical myth of separation of church and state’

Author:     Brad Reed
Source:     Raw Story
Publication Date:     September 26, 2023 11:10AM ET
 Link: Oklahoma superintendent vows to ‘fight the radical myth of separation of church and state’
Stephan:  

If you look at its social outcome data Oklahoma is a rather pathetic state run my MAGAts who don’t even seem to understand how American government was set up by the Founders. The separation of church and state was a major issue to the Founders many of whom had been persecuted by the Anglican church in a Britain where church and state were linked through the monarch who was no only the head of government they were also head of the Protestant Church, thanks to Henry VIIIth. But, as this article describes I doubt people like Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters even know that, and being christofascists they would like their strange version of Christianity to become the formal state religion. This is significant but little discussed trend shaping America today.

State Superintendent and MAGAt Ryan Walters Credit: Oklahoma state government

Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters on Tuesday vowed to bring Christian prayer back into his state’s public schools and suggested that the notion of church-state separation in the United States was a “myth.”

Writing on Twitter, Walters linked to a story about a recent speech he delivered to the “Pray, Vote, Stand” summit in Washington D.C. where he called for bringing back prayer in schools and argued that “there is no separation of church and state in the constitution or declaration of independence, it doesn’t exist.”

Commenting on this speech, Walters wrote, “We will bring God and prayer back in schools in Oklahoma, and fight back against the radical myth of separation of church and state.”

In fact, the First Amendment of the United States Constitution explicitly states that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

In addition to this, American founding father Thomas Jefferson elaborated on the First Amendment in a letter sent in […]

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