OCPAC Archives: August 2023

Monday, August 28, 2023

Markwayne Mullin meets with Tribes and OCPAC Foundation

Published Monday, August 28, 2023

AT THE HISTORY CENTER

THIS WEDNESDAY

MARKWAYNE MULLIN

Last fall, Oklahoma voters chose Markwayne Mullin to represent our state in the U.S. Senate. On Wednesday, he will participate with two groups meeting at the Oklahoma History Center.

In the morning, he will be discussing the issues swirling around McGirt with five tribal leaders in Oklahoma. While that meeting will go beyond our luncheon meeting's start time, Senator Mullin will join us for a few minutes to discuss a number of issues on the minds of members of Oklahoma's tribal leadership.

In addition, Senator Mullin is meeting with President Donald Trump today (Monday, August 28). Markwayne will have two days to reflect on that meeting and bring us the former President's thoughts about Oklahoma and the nation.

In addition to political comments from Markwayne, we will be treated to insights on the impact that life in Washington, D.C. has made on the Mullin family.

Lucia O'Connor will be on stage to have a conversation with Senator Mullin's wife, Christie.

GET TO KNOW

CHRISTIE MULLIN

AND THE MULLIN FAMILY

Both John & Lucia O'Connor will be with us. John will say a few words and Lucia will be on stage with Christie to discuss how life in Washington has impacted the Mullin family.

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A LUNCHEON BONUS ...

In addition to Christie, the founder of Professional Oklahoma Educators, Ginger Tinney will come to speak about the state of the teachers in Tulsa.

PROFESSIONAL

OKLAHOMA EDUCATORS

Founder, GINGER TINNEY

Membership in POE provides twice the insurance coverage for much less. We don't know what the current NEA/OEA rate is, but it has historically been double that of POE for half the coverage.

The price reduction is because POE is about professionalism not politics. The NEA/OEA represents a funding source for leftist candidates. That is why the leftist political agenda of the NEA/OEA have been pressed so forcefully into the classroom. They spend a lot of OEA/NEA money on far-left political candidates.

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TABLE of CONTENTS

BOB LINN

The War on Our Children

TULSA PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Fourteen Years of Documented Pain & Suffering

MARK YOUR CALENDER

State Board of Education

September 28, 2023 Meeting

BOB LINN

The War on Our Children

Video from the July 3, 2022 NEA convention in Chicago illustrates that NEA/OEA members represent political goals aligned with the extreme left. They have introduced those leftist politics into the classroom.

The political agenda of the NEA/OEA has introduced a war for the minds of our children with ideologies contrary to the civilized societies of Western Civilization. The unions have helped introduce to our children the transgender agenda* and anti-American political perspectives based on the falsified history of writers like Howard Zinn.

* Click on the NEA website here and find, under NEA Partners, the way in which they articulate the completely falsified claims regarding transgenderism.

Much of the left's anti-Americanism, along with its moral and academic misinformation, was introduced into the classroom quite peacefully until Oklahomans became aware of the subterfuge which had invaded the classroom.

Covid and the campaign for

State Superintendent of Public

Instruction in 2022 changed all of that.

The teachers’ unions and their fellow travelers from the political left have become quite vocal since Ryan Walters was elected. Oklahomans chose Ryan Walters for the purpose of returning educational authority to the parents, restoring moral and academic integrity to the classroom, and removing the far-left political agendas.

After more than 14 years of public news coverage of the failure of Tulsa’s schools, Ryan Walters has done what his role demands of him.

Because the Tulsa Public School District (TPS) is one of the highest-funded districts in the state, yet ranks well below even the Oklahoma average for academic performance (worst in the nation), he has stepped in to do what the TPS School Board has refused to do on its own. See 14 years of media reports here.

The Superintendent who has been responsible for the educational disaster has been removed. Secretary Walters has demanded of the TPS School Board a complete reversal of the practices which have led to its downward trajectory.

ANOTHER REASON FOR THE

NATIONAL PRESS COVERAGE

OF THE WORK OF RYAN WALTERS

The State Board of Education responded positively to the recommendation of The Oklahoma Advisory Committee on Founding Principles that The Ten Commandments be prominently displayed in every Oklahoma classroom.

The Ten Commandments is a historic document which has guided the laws of nations for thousands of years and continues to be displayed on the front of the United States Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.

In response to this recommended return to the heart of the American soul, far-left political activists, including members of the Republican Party in Oklahoma, have employed Communist phrases in their efforts to eviscerate the Christian elements of Western Civilization and the American Federation of states.

For example, the phrase, “separation of church and state” has been used often, from the Marxist activists on the ground, to Oklahoma’s own Attorney General.

Currents of secularity have overwhelmed academia in America. What passes for scholarship no longer represents the larger picture of Western Civilization and its point of maturation in America.

THIS BRINGS US TO LAST

WEEK'S STATE BOARD OF

EDUCATION MEETING

I addressed the issue of “separation of church and state” when I spoke to the State Board of Education last Thursday morning about the appropriate use of the Bible in the classroom.

I sought to provide a more accurate perspective on who our founders were and their perspectives on the role of the church in American life.

NEITHER THOMAS JEFFERSON

NOR BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

WERE DEISTS

The writings and policy of both Jefferson and Franklin make impossible the claim that either were deists in their fundamental theological perspectives.

Scholarship has fallen into the hands of those for whom the advancement of secularity trumps complete disclosure of historic truth.

For a brief, but scholarly look at American political and religious thought at the point of our founding, Dr. Mark David Hall, Ph.D. at George Fox University, has provided a balanced look in his book, Did America Have A Christian Founding?

The text is very accessible to the non-scholar and he makes his case in less than 200 pages.

THOMAS JEFFERSON DID NOT

BELIEVE IN SEPARATION

OF CHURCH AND STATE

There are many phrases which, taken out of context, can appear to be the polar opposite of their intent. When a parent raises his voice to his child in exasperation and says, "If you do that one more time, I will kill you!", we all understand that a grammatical superlative is being employed to make a point.

I might accuse someone of "spilling the beans" in a discussion which had nothing to do with food.

When, on January 1, 1802, Thomas Jefferson wrote to Connecticut's Danbury Baptist Church, it was in response to concerns expressed by church leadership that the Federal Government might forget the constitutional restriction on the U.S. Congress to enact laws which would dictate to American citizens the parameters of church life on American soil.

When Jefferson employed the phrase "wall of separation between Church & State," he was underlining the restrictions on the Congress of the United States to dictate the ecclesiastical policy of the citizens of the United States.

Jefferson meant nothing remotely close to what Vladimir Lenin meant when, on February 5, 1918, Lenin issued the Decree on Separation of Church and State, a decree which, among many other things, forbade the teaching of Christianity in any school public or private. Nor did he have in mind Lenin's Soviet Constitution (Article Four) which, among many other things, deprived church leadership from voting.

In 1776, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and John Adams were asked to propose a national seal for the United States.

Their proposal was an image of the events of Exodus Chapter 14. It is a passage from the Bible.

The image was of the ancient Church having passed through the Red Sea, watching the demise of the Egyptian Army behind them, and with the Shekinah Glory of Christ in a fiery representation above.

The writing proposed was, Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God, thus codifying the inseparability of the establishment of the Federal Government of the American Colonies with Christianity.

In 1801, Thomas Jefferson became President of the United States. In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson presented to the U.S. Senate his budget for the Treaty between the United States and the Kaskaskia Indians. He asked that money in the Federal Treasury be used to pay the salary of a Catholic Priest and to build a Catholic Church.

So much for a "Deist" who advocated

for a Leninist-style concept of

separation of church and state.

The separation of Christianity from the public

soul of American culture has warped

the lens through which academia,

media, and statecraft are viewed.

Without exception, the constitution of every state in the union of American states, from Alabama to Wyoming, contains a reference to our dependence upon the God of the Bible.

The great literary works of Shakespeare, Milton, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and America’s own Samuel Clemens and Edgar Alan Poe all make references to the Bible. Our founders made reference to many of the great works of the past, but their use of the Biblical text overwhelmed their use of any other work.

Perhaps the greatest novel every written, Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, quoted this Biblical text from Jesus Christ on its Title Page:

Verily, Verily, I say unto you, unless

a grain of wheat falls into

the ground and die,

it abideth alone:

But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.

~John 12:24

While the most culturally impactful text in world history is the Biblical text, the second most impactful text, The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx, should also be read.

Vladimir Lenin was the first national political leader to employ the text by Marx. He was followed by Stalin and many others including China’s Mao and the Stalinist Cultural Revolution.

Obviously, as these 20th century tyrants bore out for all to see, the materialism of the Manifesto's atheism failed to produce the soothing cultural balm known to those cultures which were instead impacted by the Biblical text.

Ignorance of either of these two major texts represents an education steeped in academic incompetence. The inability to be conversant on either Karl Marx or Jesus of Nazareth represents an incomprehensible level of ignorance.

We are, after all, training our children to be the nation's future leaders. Not useful idiots.

Our children are in school to

glean the wisdom of our past.

Otherwise ...

We are not educating.

We are indoctrinating.

A few thousand of you read this newsletter each week. I would challenge you to connect with us through our meetings, or by email and get involved in bolstering the Christian cultural foundations of Oklahoma that we may cast a light on our nation, the last bastion of freedom in the world.

Christianity is the very foundation of human thought.

It is the foundation of free and prosperous societies.

We are in desperate need of returning

our nation and our state to Biblical foundations.

Thank you for your activism.

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This Wednesday's luncheon!

11:00 AM Doors open

11:00 AM Lunch Available

NOON to 1:15 PM Meeting

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800 Nazih Zuhdi Dr., OKC, OK 73105

God bless!

TULSA PUBLIC SCHOOLS

FOURTEEN YEARS IN THE NEWS

ADMINISTRATORS DEFLECT

THREE MINUTE VIDEO

Finally, a leader who will fix the

problems in Tulsa Public Schools

Three Minute Video here

MAKE YOUR CHRISTIANITY PUBLIC:

MAKE PLANS TO ATTEND

WITH A FRIEND

September 28, 2023

Thursday

9:30 am

State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Ryan Walters, and the State Department of Education, invite you to attend their August 24th public meeting.

Your comments and presence are sought as the foundation of the future of Oklahoma's children is being established. The SDE offices are on the northeast lawn of the Oklahoma State Capitol.

PLEASE MAKE PLANS TO ATTEND:

State Department of Education

Oliver Hodge Education Building

2500 N. Lincoln Blvd, OKC, OK

Thursday, August 24, 2023

8:30 a.m. Gather for fellowship and prayer.

9:00 a.m. Sign in for option to speak.

9:30 a.m. SDE meeting begins.

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Monday, August 21, 2023

NBC NEWS interviews OCPAC Foundation's Bob Linn

Published Monday, August 21, 2023

A note from

OCPAC FOUNDATION PRESIDENT

BOB LINN

CORRECTING OUR CULTURAL LENS

Last week, Tyler Kingkade, a national reporter from the Los Angeles office of NBC News, contacted me about my support of the policies of Ryan Walters. Among other things on his mind were the recommendations that were made that Oklahoma’s classrooms display a copy of the Ten Commandments.

I have no idea what will be said in his article. I do know that on the phone, this Iowa native was a complete gentleman. He did his undergraduate work as an Iowa State Cyclone, so he is a member of Oklahoma’s beloved Big 12 fraternity. He was polite, asked only reasonable questions, and seemed anxious to understand the policies making front page news in Oklahoma’s educational arena.

I was compelled to point out that the currents of secularity which have overwhelmed academia in America do not represent the larger picture of Western Civilization and its point of maturation in America.

In 1635, the first public school in America was founded in Boston, Massachusetts by Rev. John Cotton, a Puritan pastor. Bible reading was required. A year later, Harvard University was founded specifically to spread Christianity across America.

In 1647, because reading the Bible was considered so important, both Massachusetts and Connecticut passed the “Old Deluder Satan Law.” It required that children be taught to read in order to prevent secular ideologies from deluding them as a result of an inability to read the Bible.

Beginning in 1647, and for the century which followed, the most popular educational text in America was the 1687 New England Primer. As any good Puritan (Calvanist) text should, it began teaching the alphabet with the phrase:

And, so on, with Biblical imagery

from A to Z, the lesson of the

English alphabet ended thus:

It included, of course, both the Ten Commandments and the Shorter Westminster Catechism.

It makes me proud that my Alma Mater, Indiana University, known so well for its basketball history as well as for its famed school of music, also proudly displays in its library of historic documents a section dedicated to the New England Primer.

We are all familiar with the name Horace Mann. He is known as one of the founders of America’s public (common) school system. In 1848, he published his Twelfth Annual Report.

The importance of what he sought to do with American schools was stated with dramatic clarity when he said of “common” education that it may become:

The most effective …

of all the forces of civilization.

Evil men know this well and it is, in part, the foundation of political tyrannies from Lenin to Mao.

This is why no government should be allowed to control the education of any society. It allows them to train the next generation of voters.

Give me just one generation of youth, and I’ll transform the whole world.

~Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

~Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

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The separation of Christianity from the public

soul of American culture has warped

the lens through which academia,

media, and statecraft are viewed.

America’s founding was not based on the atheistic materialism of the Marxist tyrants who have left the stage of world history a bloody mess. American prosperity and liberty is based on its Christianity. So, it was quite natural, in 1848, for Horace Mann to add to the comments above by saying:

Moral education is a primal necessity of social existence. Practical morals can never be attained without religion. Our public schools … earnestly inculcate Christian morals and founds its morals on the basis of religion [Christianity]. It welcomes the religion of the Bible. One of the moral beauties, of the Massachusetts system ... The Bible is in our common schools by common consent.

1835

In 1835, university language professor and preacher, William Holmes McGuffey, was hired by Truman and Smith Publishers to write a series of educational reading books for students.

From the foreword of McGuffey's 1836 Reader:

The Christian religion is the religion of our country.

From it are derived our prevalent notions of

the character of God, the great moral

governor of the universe.

On its doctrines are founded the

peculiarities of our free institutions

McGuffey added:

The Ten Commandments and the teachings

of Jesus are not only basic but plenary

(complete in every way).

McGuffey's Readers were the most

popular school textbooks in America.

For more than 120 years

From the period extending from 1836 to 1960

The McGuffy Reader sold a million copies a year

McGuffey's Eclectic Sixth Reader, 1907, included this:

While most nations trace their origin to barbarians, the foundations of our nation were laid by civilized men, by Christians ... The memory of our fathers should be the watchword of liberty throughout the land; for, imperfect as they were, the world before had not seen their like, nor will it soon, we fear, behold their like again. Such models of moral excellence, such apostles of civil and religious liberty ... To ridicule them is national suicide.

Lincoln referred to him as

Schoolmaster of the Nation.

In McGuffey's 5th Eclectic Reader, 1879, is a lesson titled:

Religion

The Only Basis of Society

How powerless conscience would become without the belief of a God .

Erase all thought and fear of God from a community, and selfishness and sensuality would absorb the whole man.

Appetite, knowing no restraint ... would trample in scorn on the restraints of human laws ... Man would become ... what the theory of atheism declares him to be -- a companion for brutes.

In my interview with Tyler Kingkade, the NBC national journalist, I was asked about the way in which bringing the Ten Commandments into the classroom of Oklahoma’s public schools was appropriate.

In my response, I pointed out the fact that no single text in the history of the human race has so impacted cultures the world over as has the Bible.

No single man in the history of the world has so impacted cultures as the Bible's protagonist. The calendars of the nations are based on the date of his birth.

It is not possible to appreciate the world’s greatest literature without at least a cursory knowledge of the world's most sought-after book, the Bible. Shakespeare, Melville, Samuel Clements (aka Mark Twain), Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky all referenced the Biblical text.

Perhaps the greatest novel every written, Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, quoted this Biblical text from Jesus Christ on its Title Page:

“Verily, Verily, I say unto you, unless

a grain of wheat falls into

the ground and die,

it abideth alone:

But if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”

~John 12:24

I told my new friend from NBC that the Communist Manifesto was the second most impactful text ever written and should also be required reading in our public schools.

Obviously, as the 20th century bore out for all to see, the materialism of the Manifesto's atheism failed to produce the soothing cultural balm known to those cultures which were instead impacted by the Biblical text.

Our children are in school to glean the wisdom of our past.

Otherwise, we are not educating. We are indoctrinating.

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THANKS TO BILL FEDERER

Special thanks to Bill Federer for much of the research which underlies this article. And, thanks to Bill for the constant work he does to keep America educated and to hold before us those things which are primary in importance and which bring glory to Christ.

Find Bill Federer in the American Minute.

CONTENTS

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION

Meeting this week

TWO WEEKS FROM NOW AT OCPAC FOUNDATION

Markwayne Mullin

LAST WEEK AT OCPAC FOUNDATION

Dan Fisher

JOIN BOB & JANE LINN at

STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

THIS THURSDAY

August 24, 2023

Meeting 9:30am

Arrival time: 8:30am

THE FOURTEEN YEAR SAGA OF

TULSA PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE NEWS

Watch here

The far left seeks to combat the work being done by Ryan Walters and the State Board of Education to remove pornography from our schools, to remove racist ideology , and to re-focus on academics.

They show up each month and were it not for the many of you who also show up, the news media would have a field day. Actually, they do anyway.

However, Ryan Walters and the board need your presence to balance the room.

Jane & I will show up at 8 AM in order to have a place in line. We encourage you all to show up by 8:30. It is for the future of our children.

SEE BOARD AGENDA HERE