Oklahoma education chief vows to 'absolutely' penalize schools not showing Trump prayer

Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters insisted he would "absolutely" penalize schools that don't show a video of him praying for President-elect Donald Trump.

In a Wednesday interview with Real America's Voice, Walters was asked if schools that decided not to show his prayer to students would be punished.

"Do you plan to penalize them in any way for non-compliance?" host Beau Davidson said.

"Yeah, absolutely," Walters replied. "We've allowed the left-wing activists to get their way here, and so listen, our announcement of the Office of Religious Liberty is so that parents, teachers, and kids understand you can pray."

"And so listen, rogue superintendents that have been pushing books like Genderqueer and Flamer on kids, so they want to include pornography, but they don't want to include the Bible and they don't want to allow a prayer, we're not going to tolerate it here in the state of Oklahoma," he continued.

The state's top education official insisted that the country's founders "had no problem with religion interfering with government."

Walters said he spent $25,000 of Oklahoma taxpayers' money buying Trump Bibles because they included the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and the Pledge of Allegiance.

He also hoped that WWE co-found Linda McMahon, Trump's pick for secretary of education, would abolish the department she is expected to oversee.

"Day one, let's get that agency taken down," he explained. "It needs to be completely dismantled."

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Oklahoma's Attorney General's Office has said that Walters does not have the authority to punish schools that do not show the Trump prayer.

"Not only is this edict unenforceable, it is contrary to parents' rights, local control and individual free-exercise rights," spokesperson Phil Bacharach noted last week.

Watch the video below from Real America's Voice or at this link.