Axis Mundi

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

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

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

displacement of the 10 Commandments at the State Capitol mandating the

10 Commandments we've displayed in classrooms.

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

We have religious school tax credits.

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

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

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

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

that the state of Oklahoma is for Christ.

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

recounting just some of the law

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

and advocated by the governor in order to privilege

Christians in the state of Oklahoma.

For Dallens, it's a push for theocracy.

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

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

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

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