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At the Kansas City Star, Dion Lefler argues that life has started to echo Monty Python.
As the comedy troupe Monty Python once said, “Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.”
I certainly didn’t expect it in Oklahoma.
But Inquisition 2024 came to our neighboring state on Thursday, when Oklahoma’s authoritarian superintendent of public instruction, Ryan Walters, issued an edict that every classroom from fifth to 12th grade must have a Bible in it, and every teacher, regardless of their own beliefs, has to teach from it — or else.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
And, in a related piece, Marty Ryan points out that there is a certain–er–lack of consensus on the number and wording of the Ten (or so) Commandments.
