# Oklahoma puts the "God" back in "God damn it, this sucks!" **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [June 27, 2024, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416 "2024-06-27T21:48:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416/81 "2024-07-26T19:19:06Z")
The Sermon on the Mount is dangerously woke. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416/82 "2024-07-26T20:13:51Z")
I stole it from another SDMB poster, IIRC. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416/83 "2024-07-26T20:17:16Z")
Who undoubtedly stole it from someone else. I’ve heard this going around for years, because as chappachula correctly noted it is a great line. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416/84 "2024-07-26T22:59:55Z")
The word “homosexuality” wasn’t even included until the mid 20th century. It’s probably about pedophilia, which we can all agree is an abomination. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416/85 "2024-07-26T23:13:19Z")
How it _use_ to be interpreted is of no consequence. What matters is how it is interpreted today. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416/86 "2024-07-26T23:17:44Z")
Also, all non missionary position heterosexuality is pedophilia according to them. See: Grooming ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416/87 "2024-07-26T23:19:13Z")
> [@mnemosyne](#): > > I mean, this could backfire so beautifully on the bigots! Technically or maliciously compliant is compliant, right? Yeah, no. I would imagine that a lot of precautions were written into the law to prevent this sort of thing - or, as soon as some teacher _does_ do malicious compliance and it’s reported, it would promptly result in more things being codified into the law to prevent that. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416/88 "2024-07-26T23:20:36Z")
…and the teacher getting disciplined, if not fired. If you think malicious compliance will be met with anything close to “Golly! We never thought of _that_ angle! I guess they have us over a barrel. 😟” then you aren’t living in the real world. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416/89 "2024-07-26T23:54:05Z")
In a state with no Teacher’s Union with any teeth, “malicious compliance” is a quick trip to the Unemployment queue. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 10:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416/90 "2024-07-27T10:03:57Z")
The key to effective malicious compliance in this sort of situation is plausible deniability. Even better would probably be to do it with something controversial within even Evangelical circles. Get them fighting with each other on whether they are actually teaching the Bible. Yeah, you still have to be somewhat ready to be fired. But it wouldn’t need to be an absolute certainty. Go down fighting, rather than just quitting or giving in. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416/91 "2024-07-27T13:02:34Z")
The way I see it, they want to fire teachers. If not enough teachers get fired in the first round of laws, they’re going to make the laws stupider until they do. And if I’m going to get fired anyway, I might as well take a stand while I do it, and further have something I can argue in the courts (“They fired me for doing exactly what they ordered me to do!”). ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416/92 "2024-07-27T19:06:23Z")
All very well and good…_if_ you are actually the person whose very necessary job is on the line. I just tire of “2nd hand wiseasses” with seemingly brilliant comebacks for _others_ to implement that disastrously fall apart when applied to the real world instead of a comic book world. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2024, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416/93 "2024-08-16T20:25:13Z")
The OK legislature is opening a bipartisan impeachment inquiry on Walters. [https://meidasnews.com/news/schools-chief-who-mandated-bible-study-facing-impeachment](https://meidasnews.com/news/schools-chief-who-mandated-bible-study-facing-impeachment) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416/94 "2024-09-06T15:28:33Z")
I’m actually comforted by this. Since other Republicans are involved, it _might_ actually work. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [September 6, 2024, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416/95 "2024-09-06T16:20:57Z")
Unfortunately its not going to go anywhere. The house speaker has said its not going to happen, and it seems that Walters himself is demanding that they impeach him, presumably so he can win martyr points. Also the impeachment inquiry isn’t into Walter’s blatant theocracy push, its a [budget inquiry](https://oklahomavoice.com/briefs/oklahoma-state-department-of-education-to-be-investigated-by-state-watchdog-agency/) about why certain funds that were allocated haven’t been spent. > **[Ryan Walters urges Oklahoma House to start his impeachment proceedings...](https://oklahomavoice.com/2024/08/16/ryan-walters-urges-oklahoma-house-to-start-his-impeachment-proceedings-immediately/)** > > State Superintendent Ryan Walters urged lawmakers to reveal any evidence they have against him by starting impeachment proceedings. ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416/96 "2024-10-04T19:26:53Z")
Well, wouldn’t you know who won the pony - the only Bible that meets the criteria established by the state is the one Trump has been selling. > **[Trump Bibles only ones in the world to meet new criteria for purchase by...](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-bible-oklahoma-only-ones/)** > > Oklahoma is accepting bids to supply its Department of Education with 55,000 Bibles, but vendors can only find two versions that meet all the statutory requirements – and both of them happen to be endorsed by Donald Trump.The bid documents show that... ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416/97 "2024-10-04T19:39:19Z")
Well, there’s a $3.3 million boost for the trump campaign. WTG, Oklahoma! 🙄 ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2024, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416/98 "2024-10-05T00:45:43Z")
Maybe Trump will give Oklahoma a volume discount. WTF am I saying? He’ll probably charge them extra for bulk shipping or something. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2024, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416/99 "2024-10-05T03:13:46Z")
Or simply not ship them in the first place, and pocket the money. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2024, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416/100 "2024-10-05T12:25:53Z")
That would certainly be the most cost-effective. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oklahoma-puts-the-god-back-in-god-damn-it-this-sucks/1003416.md?page=6)