On Tuesday, Ryan Walters, Oklahoma's State Superintendent of Public Instruction, announced the creation of an Office of Religious Liberty and Patriotism at the Oklahoma Department of Education. Advertised as a way to protect freedom of religion, this office will impose Orwellian-like practices that trample individual choice and religious freedom.
The taxpayer-funded office will be tasked with promoting religious liberty and patriotism in Oklahoma by protecting "parents, teachers, and students' abilities to practice their religion freely in all aspects" and will also "oversee the investigation of abuses to individual religious freedom or displays of patriotism," per a press release from Walters.
