Three days after Oklahoma’s state superintendent, Ryan Walters, directed every teacher in the state’s public schools to teach the Bible this summer, he walked onstage to a standing ovation.
“We’re incredibly proud to be the first state in the country to put the Bible back in the classrooms,” Mr. Walters told the crowd at Sheridan Church, a large evangelical congregation in Tulsa.
The church’s pastor, Jackson Lahmeyer, who leads the national network Pastors for Trump, also hailed the new rule. “We are seeing a miracle take place in our state,” he said, comparing Mr. Walters’s mandate to the end of Roe v. Wade. “Just know that in our books, you’re a hero, man.”
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