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Oklahoma GOP Platform Requires Teaching Creationism

282 freetoken4/30/2009 11:29:27 pm PDT

Just want to be sure, for the record, that it is not clear how much of the Tulsa County GOP platform the OK State GOP accepted… once again, the OK State GOP doesn’t seem to be too forthcoming about what was decided on 18 April at their state convention.

However, the draft that had been adopted during 2008, which we presume is the basis for what was accepted, was bad enough. See my post here:

littlegreenfootballs.com

The State wide draft included such language as:

6. We believe that in order to encourage and protect family values, those promoting homosexuality or other aberrant lifestyles should not be allowed to hold responsible positions over children, which are not their own, or other vulnerable persons.


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1. Our Founding Fathers based our Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and early laws on the Bible and traditional Judeo-Christian ethics and values. We believe these documents are the basis for law, order and behavior, allowing individuals, including government workers and officials, the freedom to involve God in all activities according to their consciences.


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2. We believe that homosexuality is not a genetic trait, but a chosen lifestyle.


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12. We believe that government should not fund any organization that opposes the ideas and principles contained in the Republican Platform.


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10. The Ten Commandments should be posted in all public schools as a means of moral guidance along with our national motto “In God We Trust” and the Bill of Rights.


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13. Public schools shall not prohibit the Judeo-Christian worldview upon which our country was founded. Public schools shall be prohibited from promoting other worldviews such as, but not limited to, secular Humanism, New Age philosophy, deep ecology, reincarnation, psychotherapy, channeling, transcendental meditation, altered states of consciousness or any occult practice. [Emphasis added.]


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4. Where evolution is taught, intelligent design must be taught as well. The differences between fact and theory shall be included in instruction

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There should be no doubt about what the OK GOP intends for this country.