Ryan Walters is scheming to remake the Oklahoma public schools reflect his own biased view of America, and by extension constrain any diversity of thinking in our state. And he’s betting on the laziness and ignorance of the general public to give him a clear path to achieve his radical single-minded goals.
Walters demands that Oklahoma public schools teach Christianity in classes. He contends that our country was founded on Christian principles and is thus a fundamental component of the nation’s history. He is wrong.
The Founding Fathers built the very pillars of our nation’s governance on the philosophy of Humanism, which supports the concepts of liberty and equality of all citizens. The leading Humanist philosopher of their time was John Locke, who along with other known philosophers argued that humans, by virtue of their very existence, possessed “natural rights” that are independent of any governing or societal power. Locke argued for religious freedom and a government that should not prefer or enforce a single religion on its citizens…