Oklahoma bill would fine teachers $10k for teaching anything that contradicts religion
Under Senator Rob Standridge’s Students’ Religious Belief Protection Act subjects like LGBT issues, evolution and the big bang theory, even birth control could be off the table
Under Senator Rob Standridge’s Students’ Religious Belief Protection Act subjects like LGBT issues, evolution and the big bang theory, even birth control could be off the table
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". . .The act will be introduced into the Education Committee next week, but it doesn’t specify which religious beliefs will be used to prosecute offending teachers.
Referring to the act as “necessary for the preservation of the public peace,” if passed the law will take effect immediately, states the bill.
Just over a month ago, Senator Standridge introduced a bill to ban books with references to identity, sex and gender from public school libraries.. . "
Obviously, it is a dumb idea, and I would be shocked if the bill even gets out of committee, but it is pretty obvious what this move is all about. . .
The left has over played their hand in trying to reform education in trying to deal with societal implicit bias in the work place, in government, school and all other places in society. The best places to program that out of a person is when folks are young. . . but how young? And the question remains, how much of the morals and ethics of the STATE versus the family, do social engineers get to press onto the children? What say do parents have?
Obviously, families have been left out of the equation when the Left, in their ivory towers, have re-engineer the pedagogy. SO? Whenever the political radicals in society make moves, you can always expect, like weeds after a good rain, the reactionaries are going to capitalize on those shifts in the establishment government and workplace.
This. . . . Oklahoma Senator, I honestly don't think believes a lot of these proposals will even get anywhere. Hell, I was in student government, model UN, etc. A lot of times, it was the most outlandish proposals that got the most interest, but then were jaw-boned down into something realistic for what folks expected of change.
BUT? The upshot, the REAL change, was the person that proposed them. . . they were the folks that got the limelight. That is what we should pay attention to. It is this guy, this Senator Standridge that is probably the story. The proposal? That is just for clicks and ad revenue, it is outrage porn, and won't, in all likelihood go anywhere. It is only to get his name out there for the future.
As soon as he appears in articles with say. . . Ronna McDaniel? Then you will know what this is about. . . . IMO.