Educators in Oklahoma are refusing a state order to incorporate the Bible into their lesson plans, setting up an inevitable showdown with the start of the school year just weeks away.

Ryan Walters, the state superintendent of public instruction, last week released guidelines to schools for how they should be integrating the Bible into classrooms, saying educators who are against the initiative “will comply, and I will use every means to make sure of it.”

The message from some schools in the state: Bring it on.

But ultimately, Miller said the goal may be to garner headlines and get the mandate before the conservative-leaning Supreme Court.

Welp we’ll find out how low the supreme court wants to go I suppose

Last time anybody gave a damn about Oklahoma, it was because the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building got an unexpected facelift. This attempt to sidestep the first amendment by shouting “I’m not establishing you!” is not an improvement. Nice to see pushback from educators fighting to provide education even though it’s bullshit that they have to.