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issued this memo today requiring teachers in all schools to keep a Bible in their classroom and teach from it as a historical document.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)
So that's the thing, isn't it? The law is unconstitutional but if it gets upheld by the bribe patrol then showing all the ways the founders purposely avoided enshrining religion in law is a proper application of the insistence teachers use the Bible to teach.
One point I like to make and you can tell me if I'm wrong is that the English colonists writing the constitution were just emerging from an England whose successive monarchs changed religions and killed and oppressed the previous monarchs adherants resulting in civil strife across generations.
