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Ryan Walters: “What we've seen is now the public school system where really…”

Featuring: Ryan Walters, Republican | Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Oklahoma schools chief Ryan Walters on the secret efforts of teachers unions

Published | Video Starts at 04:00

What we've seen is a Supreme court in the 1960s aggressively take on prayer in school, any kind of religious liberties in the school setting. And What we've seen is now the public school system where really create atheism as a state sponsored religion. We don't want any mention of God, we don't want any mention of Christianity. The reality is what we want to do is protect religious liberties, allow religious institutions to start a charter. (04:00–04:07)

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Asserts that public schools have effectively made atheism a state-sponsored religion.

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