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Straight White American Jesus

They're Creating A Theocracy in Oklahoma Right Now

Straight White American Jesus

Axis Mundi Media: Bradley Onishi + Daniel Miller

News, Politics

4.72K Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In Oklahoma over the past few years, there have been bills put forward: - Designating the Bible as the Official State Book. - Establishing the nation's first taxpayer-funded religious charter school. - Displaying the Ten Commandments at the state capitol. - Mandating the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom. - Using Bible verses to justify spanking children with disabilities in school. - Religious school tax credits. - Banning the teaching of evolution in public schools. - The governor claiming the state of Oklahoma for Christ in his inaugural speech. I spoke with Rep. Mickey Dollens, one of the few Democrats in the Oklahoma legislature, about these bills and how he and others are fighting back. Subscribe for $5.99 a month to get full access to this episode, bonus content most Mondays, bonus episodes every month, ad-free listening, access to the entire 500-episode archive, Discord access, and more: https://axismundi.supercast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Axis Mundi

0:07.0

Moundi Over the past few years there's been a strong push for theocratic bills in this

0:19.8

building that have some advanced some have made it throughout the chamber and some have been

0:25.1

signed into law and I have evidence I've compiled just a list off the top of my head. We have had bills that would require the

0:37.0

displacement of the 10 Commandments at the State Capitol mandating the

0:40.6

10 Commandments we've displayed in classrooms.

0:43.5

We've passed the nation's first publicly funded religious charter school.

0:48.7

We have religious school tax credits.

0:51.1

We've heard members in this chamber quote the Bible to justify hitting kids with

0:56.6

disabilities in school. We had a bill that would have designated the holy

1:00.4

Bible is the official state book. We have the banning of the teaching of

1:04.6

evolution in schools and our own governor claimed that in his inaugural address

1:09.6

that the state of Oklahoma is for Christ.

1:13.0

That is State Representative Mickey Dollins, on the floor of the Oklahoma State Legislature,

1:22.0

recounting just some of the law

1:23.0

recounting just some of the bills that have been put forth in the legislature

1:26.0

and advocated by the governor in order to privilege

1:30.0

Christians in the state of Oklahoma.

1:33.0

For Dallens, it's a push for theocracy.

1:37.0

For me, it's certainly a push for Christian nationalism.

1:41.0

A way to make it such that if you are a Christian in Oklahoma you have an elevated

1:45.7

position in culture, in politics, in the economy, and certainly in the public schools.

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