A report from from The Oklahoman confirmed that Oklahoma Superintendent Ryan Walters is pushing to put more Bibles in the classroom, but it appears the bid might have been rigged to benefit Donald Trump.
The Oklahoma Department of Education opened bids this past week to vendors to supply the Department with about 55,000 new Bibles to place in the public schools system.
According to The Oklahoman, the requirements for the vendors include:
“Bibles must be the King James Version; must contain the Old and New Testaments; must include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and must be bound in leather or leather-like material.”
Is it a coincidence that few Bibles meet those requirements? The Bible endorsed by Trump, however, does. Trump receives fees for endorsing musician Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the U.S.A. Bible, which has been endorsed by Trump., and those Bibles likely would meet Oklahoma’s requirements.
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I’m GLAD my Taxdollars are going to THIS and NOT Feeding Starving Children!
I’m torn. If our country ever goes back to normal, I’d love to be able to show my grandkids a Trump Bible 50 years from now. I like to think that they’d be shocked by the audacity of it - by the fact that a guy peddled something so blasphemous and still locked up the religious vote. But I know Trump is probably getting royalties on the sale, so I guess they’ll just have to take my word for it.
Kind of like in “The Walking Dead” comics when Carl is telling his children about all of the events of the past?
This feels so blatantly illegal. This isn’t surprising in the slightest.
Inb4 No one will be punished and nothing is changed.
It violates the first amendment establishment clause they can’t privilege Christianity over other religions before even getting to the selection criteria obviously only one grifter can meet, but with the federal courts disproportionally filled by theocrats the separation remains very threatened.
I worked at a major public university for 14 years during the late 90s / early 00s. This happens more than people realize.
I believe you. It doesn’t make it right, and I wish we could do something. Justice feels fairly hopeless at this point
Blatantly illegal appears to be all the rage these days.
Separation of church and state concerns aside, much less expensive Bibles are readily available. Paperback versions of the New King James Version are available online for $2.99 each, less than 5% of what the Trump-endorsed Bible would cost.
Conservatives, everyone. Don’t worry, a bunch of people will sue due to the anticompetitive and nonsensical nature of requirements and waste even more taxpayer money.
The requirements literally violate church/state seperation because it requires a specific version of the Bible that also has to contain things like the constitution and declaration of independence.
No one makes a bible like that because it doesn’t make any sense.
You can buy a 5 dollar bible and just stuff them in as inserts. I recommend you place a bid lol
Edit: this an ambulance chaser’s and an opportunistic troll’s wet dream
Nowhere does it say that it should only contain the listed requirements. If you are the lowest bidder, I‘m sure you can throw in a few bonus pages about the importance of the right to choose, equality, other religions and much more. The possibilities are endless.
There are plenty of E-Bibles (pardon my terrible term) available on the Internet for free since many translations are in the public domain. Edit: All of the other stuff is available via webpages, multiple e-book formats, and on webpages. Again, it’s all public domain.
The dumbest thing about this is, doesn’t the Trump bible only contain the parts of the constitution that they like, and omit others? So if the requirement is that it contains “the Constitution”, does the Trump bible even really qualify?
I guess that’s the reason for the nonsensical wording “U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights,” since it incorrectly attempts to imply that all the Amendments are anything other than an integral part of the Constitution itself to begin with.
In a 6-3 ruling, SCROTUS will probably allow it by saying that the Trump Bible is the most godly bible since it was blessed by god himself
Yes.
“Bibles must be the King James Version; must contain the Old and New Testaments; must include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and must be bound in leather or leather-like material.”
So not even a bible then.
Are the naughty bits edited out?
I wonder if they left the pro-slavery bits in…
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