The requirement forces Oklahoma teachers to "reference" the role of the Ten Commandments in America's founding, so as a historian & teacher, let me offer this suggestion:
"Although some idiots today insist that the Founding Fathers were inspired by the Ten Commandments, they absolutely were not."
Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters issued this memo today requiring teachers in all schools to keep a Bible in their classroom and teach from it as a historical document. (Via KOCO 5 News)
Can this be a "Jefferson Bible"?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffers...
He Founded. He Fathered. He espoused Deist views in historic context of "the artificial vestments in which they have been muffled by priests, who have travestied them into various forms, as instruments of riches and power "
