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Guy Chamberlin said:
It must be crushing to have your conference cancel the sport you love (we'd rather lose than encourage you) and prevent your own teammates from playing, while the hounds of social media weigh in on something they never cared about before. 

Who would you guess is the least-safe volleyball player in America right now? 
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Rebekah Allick. Hands down!

That girl just carries herself in a way that seems to keep everyone in check, lol.  

...and I love it!

 
Guy Chamberlin said:
It must be crushing to have your conference cancel the sport you love (we'd rather lose than encourage you) and prevent your own teammates from playing, while the hounds of social media weigh in on something they never cared about before. 

Who would you guess is the least-safe volleyball player in America right now? 
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Looks like two of the people who joined the lawsuit are #1 Riley Gaines, who turned having to swim against a trans woman one time into a book deal and entire career as an anti-trans activist, and #2 her current teammate and captain, who is a first year player for SJSU after transferring from Alabama. Tough locker room.

 
Lorewarn said:
Looks like two of the people who joined the lawsuit are #1 Riley Gaines, who turned having to swim against a trans woman one time into a book deal and entire career as an anti-trans activist, and #2 her current teammate and captain, who is a first year player for SJSU after transferring from Alabama. Tough locker room.
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Lawsuit seems lame to me.  

 
Lorewarn said:
Looks like two of the people who joined the lawsuit are #1 Riley Gaines, who turned having to swim against a trans woman one time into a book deal and entire career as an anti-trans activist, and #2 her current teammate and captain, who is a first year player for SJSU after transferring from Alabama. Tough locker room.
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How about we just make every sport coed.   No need to argue about who’s a boy and who’s a girl anymore! 

 
Lorewarn said:
Looks like two of the people who joined the lawsuit are #1 Riley Gaines, who turned having to swim against a trans woman one time into a book deal and entire career as an anti-trans activist, and #2 her current teammate and captain, who is a first year player for SJSU after transferring from Alabama. Tough locker room.
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Is there even confirmation that she's trans? Or is this a other intersex or high hormone level thing? Also, does she honestly spike it any faster than the fastest women? Because I'd be scared returning some of the shots in any women's volleyball game. Girls would even get concussed in high school if they got hit in the head.

 
In Oklahoma we have this cult member to deal with as the Sec of Education.  Walters is purchasing $55k Bibles for class rooms even though there are under 45k class room teachers in OKLA.  His specific requirements line up perfectly with the...... Trump Bible.  Amazing how that works.  He is setting himself up to being an education czar in a new Trump admin.  

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/10/04/donald-trump-supported-bible-one-of-few-that-meets-ryan-walters-criteria-for-ok-classrooms/75510021007/

Superintendent Ryan Walters isn’t just talking about buying Bibles for schools. 

Bids opened Monday for a contract to supply the state Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles. According to the bid documents, vendors must meet certain specifications: Bibles must be the King James Version; must contain the Old and New Testaments; must include copies of the Pledge of Allegiance, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and must be bound in leather or leather-like material.

A salesperson at Mardel Christian & Education searched, and though they carry 2,900 Bibles, none fit the parameters. 

But one Bible fits perfectly: Lee Greenwood’s God Bless the U.S.A. Bible, endorsed by former President Donald Trump and commonly referred to as the Trump Bible. They cost $60 each online, with Trump receiving fees for his endorsement. 

Mardel doesn’t carry the God Bless the U.S.A. Bible or another Bible that could meet the specifications, the We The People Bible, which was also endorsed by Donald Trump Jr. It sells for $90. 

“The RFP on its face seems fair, but with additional scrutiny, we can see there are very few Bibles on the market that would meet these criteria, and all of them have been endorsed by former President Donald Trump,” Oklahoma Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Executive Director Colleen McCarty said
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Former Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson said the request for proposals might violate state law.

“It appears to me that this bid is anything but competitive,” Edmondson said. “It adds to the basic specification other requirements that have nothing to do with the text. The special binding and inclusion of government documents will exclude almost all bidders. If the bid specs exclude most bidders unnecessarily, I could consider that a violation.” 

Separation of church and state concerns aside, much less expensive Bibles are readily available. Paperback versions of the New King James Version are available online for $2.99 each, less than 5% of what the Trump-endorsed Bible would cost. There are many free Bible apps, too. 

Though Walters has frequently said he wants Bibles in every classroom, he has also clarified publicly that he wants them in classes where the Bible might apply to academic standards, such as history or literature. The request for 55,000 copies doesn’t fit either scenario; there are only 43,000 classroom teachers in the state, and many fewer teaching just history or literature.

If the Bibles cost $60 each, and the state buys 55,000, that’s $3.3 million.

On Sept. 26, Walters asked for $3 million to purchase Bibles for Oklahoma classrooms as part of his agency’s fiscal year 2026 budget request to the Oklahoma Legislature. 

“We have talked about ensuring that our history courses include the role the Bible played throughout American history,” Walters said. “We’ve talked about the efforts of left-wing groups and the teachers’ unions to drive the Bible out of school. I believe it’s important for historical context for our kids to understand the role the Bible played.” 

He said the request was in conjunction with $3 million the agency was already putting forth to provide Bibles in the classroom. In a discussion with the board at the meeting, Walters said he wanted to issue an RFP and wanted the King James version of the Bible. 

“We don’t want extra things in there; historical documents are fine,” Walters said. “If it’s the King James version and the Constitution, the Magna Carta, things like that, that are also in statute that can be used in the classroom, that’s fine. But we don’t want commentary around the Bible because this is to serve as a historical reference document.”

Isett said the $3 million is coming from payroll savings.

“OSDE has realized significant personnel and administrative cost savings that can be directed toward this program,” he said. 

At least 130 people have resigned or been fired since Walters took office in 2023, according to The Oklahoman. 
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‘Trump has praised our efforts’ 


In June, Walters announced a mandate that a Bible should be in every Oklahoma classroom, though it’s unlikely he would have the authority to enforce that. The Oklahoma Supreme Court affirmed that school districts maintain local control over curricula. Some superintendents across the state have said they do not intend to add the Bible to their curriculum. 

“We will not be forcing our teachers to do this,” Bixby Superintendent Rob Miller said on News Nation on Aug. 12. “As a Christian myself, the idea of diminishing the word of God to a mere classroom prop is a little repulsive to me, so we will not be complying with that directive of having a physical Bible in every classroom.”  

Walters has been touting his Bible plan to local and national groups. In these interviews, he talks more about Christianity than history. 

In one interview this week, Walters claimed Democrats plan to teach kids to hate their country as well as Christianity and Judaism and said his Bible initiative is an antidote to that.  

“We are going to be so proud here in Oklahoma to be the first state in the country to bring the Bible back to every single classroom and every state should be doing this.… President Trump praised our efforts. President Trump has been the leader on this issue.”

Walters is a frequent guest on conservative podcasts, radio shows and TV stations. His agency has a $60,000 per year contract with D.C.-based Vought Strategies to book him for national interviews weekly.

Walters endorsed Trump, and many onlookers surmise he’s angling for a cabinet position if Trump wins in November. 






 
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TGHusker said:
In Oklahoma we have this cult member to deal with as the Sec of Education.  Walters is purchasing $55k Bibles for class rooms even though there are under 45k class room teachers in OKLA.  His specific requirements line up perfectly with the...... Trump Bible.  Amazing how that works.  He is setting himself up to being an education czar in a new Trump admin.  

https://www.oklahoman.com/story/news/2024/10/04/donald-trump-supported-bible-one-of-few-that-meets-ryan-walters-criteria-for-ok-classrooms/75510021007/


 




 
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It’s amazing how this works. 
 

I thought there was an effort to get rid of him. I’m assuming he has too much support in the state.  

 
BigRedBuster said:
It’s amazing how this works. 
 

I thought there was an effort to get rid of him. I’m assuming he has too much support in the state.  
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There is an effort.  Not sure where it is at now.  This latest has got to but a fire under that effort.   The article quotes the Bixby Public School superintendent - that is my school district.  The Bixby superintendent  has a slander/defamation suit against Walters for the outrageous things Walters said against him (Walter's acting like his mentor Trump)- because the Bixby Superintendent, who is a Bible believing Christian,  publicly stated he was going to oppose Walter's Bible in the classroom rules.   This is what happens when nuts jobs  :blink:  take over offices of authority. 

 
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