Oklahoma backtracks on request to stock classrooms with Bible endorsed by Trump

Published October 9, 2024 10:45am ET



Oklahoma has retracted its request to stock classrooms with a version of the Bible that appeared designed to benefit former President Donald Trump.

Last week, Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters opened bidding for suppliers to fill a request for 55,000 Bibles to be placed in public schools throughout the state. Originally, Walters required the leather-bound or leatherlike-bound Bibles to be the King James Version, including the Old Testament and New Testament, as well as copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. No Bibles fit these criteria except for two that Trump has been linked to and endorsed: Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the USA Bible and the We the People Bible.

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