Oklahoma bill would fine teachers $10k for teaching anything that contradicts religion

[Poiuyt]

Under Senator Rob Standridge’s Students’ Religious Belief Protection Act subjects like LGBT+ issues, evolution and the big bang theory, even birth control could be off the table

Oklahoma Republican Senator Rob Standridge has introduced a bill that would allow people to sue teachers if they offer an opposing view from the religious beliefs held by students.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/oklahoma-bill-religion-rob-standridge-b2007505.html

[hamsterjill]

1. The witch trials cannot be far behind.

I don’t even know what to say…

The absolute absurdity is just amazing, and yet these crazy asses are getting this stuff normalized.

[left-of-center2012]

2. My brother's religious views do not match mine

So either of us could sue a teacher.

If a teacher agrees with my brother, I can sue.
If the teacher agrees with me, my brother can sue.

What an effed up country we have become.

[Walleye]

3. Um, which religion?

[tblue37]

7. Church of Satan & Flying Spaghetti Monster!

[Walleye]

8. Well damn! I'd go along with that

[panader0]

10. Doesn't this Standridge guy understand the repercussions of his bill?

Any religion? Islam? Satanism? Peyote? This bill, if it passes, will cause a traffic jam
of legal cases, and cost the state a fortune.

[DBoon]

14. I'm sure he assumes there is only one real religion

the one he believes in

[Coventina]

4. My great uncle (may he rest in power!) was fired from teaching in the 60s

For teaching evolution at Mesa Community College in Mesa, Arizona.



Hard to believe it is set to happen the fourth generation after him!

[Walleye]

9. The Scopes trial was nearly 100 years ago now

Oh and where did Cain find his wife

[Lovie777]

5. It hasn't passed yet, I hope . ..

[tblue37]

6. Church of Satan & Flying Spaghetti Monster!

[secondwind]

11. SO THESE FOLKS WANT RELIGIOUS CURRICULUM... IN OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS...

WTF? You don't like public school, PAY FOR PRIVATE SCHOOL.

[mitch96]

12. +1.. this THIS is why we have to preserve the separation of church and state...nt

[doc03]

13. Gee I wonder what religion that would be. I belong to

the Church of What's Happening Now, does that count.
Flip Wilson's church anyone old enough to remember that?



https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yfp-t-s&ei=UTF-8&p=flip+wilson+church+of+what%27s+happening+now#id=1&vid=45ac3b3307e08ac9b3324b9ce9299cd1&action=click

[DBoon]

15. You can forget about learning geology in Oklahoma

Wonder where oil companies will get their geologists?

The book of Genesis does not tell you where mineral deposits may be found. People have tried.

[TlalocW]

16. I lived in OKlahoma for a while

And it's like the lawmakers there are incapable of seeing any negative consequences when they try to "protect Christianity-not-religion" with bills like this. You're either going to have litigious parents of a particular sect of Christianity or another religion (the former is more likely) sue because their particular mythology wasn't catered for, or you're going to get wise-ass kids who declare themselves Mayans and get upset that Biology doesn't teach us that the gods made humans out of corn.

TlalocW

[SWBTATTReg]

17. What an idiotic bill. With 30-50 students per class, w/ X nbr of classes per day/week taught,

and the teachers can't have an opposing view different from let's just say perhaps they (teachers) teach 4 similar classes a day, so the teacher is bound to have an opposing view from at a minimum of at least one student out of a population of 120 to 200 students, per day.

Idiots in the OK legislature need to be reined in and have it pointed out to them just how unrealistic and dumb this is. The legislator proposing this needs to be kicked out of the legislature. And whose 'religious beliefs' is this really protecting? Those who wrote the bill or those of everybody else's, students who may have different religious beliefs, teachers, school administrators, etc. who all may have different opposing views, etc.?

Also, I'm sure that are bound to be freedom of religion issues, as well as freedom of speech issues too.

[LiberalFighter]

18. Legislators need to suffer serious consequences when they introduced unconstional legislation.

And voting for it.

[niyad]

19. The Satanic Temple.