Just more proof they hate america

[Gravydoo II]

Look at oklahoma.

Oklahoma Sen. Rob Standridge (R) has introduced legislation that would allow parents to sue any public school educators who teach anything “in opposition to closely held religious beliefs of students.” Standridge has also introduced a bill that would give individual parents the power to demand the removal of any book from school shelves that they believe contains LGBTQ content.

So again, party of feelings. 10k if you offend someone's "beliefs" while teaching in school. Then you'll be fired.

Just more proof you guys want to cancel free speech. You hate everything about this country, so cancel it. Cancel the teachers. Cancel schools.

That and they want to pass a bill that would allow any parent to ban any book they feel has any LGBT content, any sexual content, any mention of anything they dont like pretty much.

[Toxigen]

op suffers from smol pp

[Reiwa]

public officials showing animus is how we lost the cake case on a punt.

[Homesteaded]

Certainly we can trust OP's read on this situation. He has a well-known track record of non-partisan, level headed approaches to nuanced issues.

[GinnasP99]

Get. A. Life.

[unsunghero]

I read the article assuming it would be a ban on transgender-pushing books, but it really did say any material relating to “sexual orientation”. So, theoretically, if a fictional book in the library had a gay character, that book could be pulled

Seems like a bit of an overreach to go after sexual orientation in general. I think that both Dems and Repubs are forgetting that, unless a parent had a stranglehold on all the family’s electronic devises via firewalls and filters, their 10 year old kid is going to learn about sex via hardcore pornography online more than anything else

[Tunabros]

drugs

[Gravydoo II]

Amidst the current surge of conservative driven pro-censorship efforts in school districts across the country, Oklahoma GOP State Sen. Rob Standridge stands apart. Just over a month after introducing a bill to ban books having pretty much anything to do with sex, gender, and identity from public school libraries, Sandridge is back with a new measure to penalize teachers who have the unmitigated gall to teach something that might be slightly divergent from their students’ “closely held religious beliefs.”


SB 1470, the “Students’ Religious Belief Protection Act,” is set to be officially introduced into the Education Committee next week. If passed, it will allow parents and guardians to file complaints against individual teachers who “promotes positions in the classroom or at any function of the public school that is in opposition to closely held religious beliefs of students.” Standridge, whose campaign website describes him as having been “raised with strong Christian values” doesn’t elaborate on which religious beliefs he had in mind while authoring the bill, so I leave it to you, reader, to speculate wildly for yourself.

Crucially, the bill’s language is appropriately vague enough as to leave wide open what being “in opposition” actually constitutes. Could, for instance, a Jewish family be able to complain if a teacher were to wish their class “Merry Christmas”? Would a polytheist, or atheist, have grounds to complain at the “one nation under god” line while reciting the pledge of allegiance — which Standridge himself pushed to require in Oklahoma public schools? Is simply raising the fact that abortions exist and are legal (for now anyway) enough to legitimize a complaint by an evangelical christian student? And let’s not forget what this means for biology teachers who include lessons on evolution, as outlined in Oklahoma’s official Academic Standards for Science.

You start to see the problem...

According to the bill, school employees found guilty of violating Standridge’s standards of religious sanctity face a fine of $10,000, and risk losing their job entirely.

Given the seemingly inevitable problems with creating a punitive safe space for anyone worried their religious sensibilities might someday be exposed to teachings “in opposition” thereof, it’s worth pointing out too that last year Standridge introduced legislation that would allow Oklahomans to sue social media companies who delete or censor “a user’s political speech or religious speech; or uses an algorithm to suppress political speech or religious speech.”



Dooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[Gravydoo II]

Mandatory safe spaces for kids. Weird how you guys always cry about safe spaces.. writes laws to create a safe space where nobody can even challenge your beliefs through teaching a subject.

Basically, if your religion says the earth is 6000 years old and in geology/earth science/science class says the earth is 4.3 billion. Guess what? That kids parents can now sue that teacher for doing his/her job. Simply because they believe insane things. If convicted, they can be barred from teaching for 5 years and they are not allowed to ask for outside help to pay the fine. Cant use gofundme or anything like that, either. Isnt that so draconian and evil?? Typical christian law maker.. Demands a safe space for him and his but as soon as the shoe is on the other foot, hes going to say "no its not for muslims, jewish people, or anyone else. just christians like me" watch.

[Jibartik]

good hopefully you accept jesus 4 once.