While talking about “raising and training children” and “implanting” the proper “moral code,” a prominent politician had an interesting prescription. “The fundamental basis of this Nation’s law was given to Moses on the Mount,” he said. “The fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings which we get from Exodus and St. Matthew, from Isaiah and St. Paul. I don’t think we emphasize that enough these days.”
Ryan Walters, Oklahoma’s state education superintendent, certainly must believe the above, too. Last year, in fact, he mandated that the Bible should be taught in all his state’s K-12 schools. Only, truth in advertising, while Walters certainly would embrace the quoted words, he didn’t utter them.
Rather, they were spoken by Democratic president Harry S. Truman in 1950. And, no, this wasn’t while speaking to the Southern Baptist Convention, either. He was instead giving an address before the Attorney General’s Conference on Law Enforcement Problems.
Well, pop goes another stereotype.
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