Email from OCPAC GOVERNOR KEVIN STITT ADDRESSES OCPAC FOUNDATION Published Monday, May 19, 2025 GOVERNOR STITT COMING WEDNESDAY OCPAC FOUNDATION Last week, Governor Kevin Stitt made his thoughts about the performance of Oklahoma Attorney General (AG) Gentner Drummond clear when executing three of his many vetos. He stated that Gentner Drummond, when offered power "has shown again and again that he will abuse it." The Governor went on to say: To date, he has used his office to sue agricultural farmers, tech companies and other Oklahoma businesses for political gain. After increasing his budget 68% since taking office, and asking for another 204% increase for next year, the Attorney General is making another attempt to grow his office and expand his authority. This all was contained in the Governor's comments about his veto of SB773. The comments did not stop here. He will comment further on the AG this Wednesday as he also comments on the state of Oklahoma's income tax, the deportation of criminals, DOGE, and a variety of other topics. ALSO! WE TAKE A MOMENT TO HONOR OUR WAR HEROS AS WE APPROACH MEMORIAL DAY BRING A FRIEND BE READY TO ASK QUESTIONS ENTRY FEE: $5 OKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER 800 Nazih Zuhdi Drive, OKC, OK 73105 SEND THIS NEWSLETTER TO A FRIEND HERE. BOB LINN ST. ISADORE & THE U.S. SUPREME COURT This Wednesday the Governor will touch upon the troubling performance of Oklahoma’s Attorney General (AG). Two weeks ago, I featured Dr. Everett Piper’s observations which are equally critical. Find his article here. Responding to Dr. Piper's comments, one of our readers texted me with a query regarding the substance of the AG’s reasons for filing a lawsuit against Saint Isadore’s Charter School. Dr. Piper pointed out that St. Isadore’s academic track record is light years above the schools that the Government operates, by the way. The reader asked: I haven't read everything yet Bob but what about the question Dr. Piper posed as far as if this passes then Satanist and Islamists, etc. could be allowed to do the same thing. This is something we wouldn't want. MY RESPONSE "First, whether you agree with your next-door neighbor or not, his children are his own family’s business and not your business and not the business of the political class. Society revolves around family sovereignty. The government simply has no business in family business. Education is family business. Second, there is no such thing as public funds. The cash on hand in every department of government is private money allocated to specific and defined projects. They are fiduciary funds which belong to the people to be used for specified purposes. The education fund is for the purpose of covering the private educational expenses of families. It is not the private property of government to fund their private system of government schools. It is your money to be used to raise your children precisely how you want your children to be raised. As a member of the political class, if I don’t like the Pentecostal church, I don’t get to tell you that you cannot access those fiduciary funds on hand for your children simply because I don’t like Pentecostals. I don’t have the right to tell you that you can’t use your education funds. These are funds you sent to the government to save for your children’s education, for a Pentecostal school. It simply is none of government’s business to dictate the religious values and practices of my family. Third, until an ideology is outlawed, I cannot withhold your education dollars from you because I think your ideology is a cancer to the culture. That issue is solved only by the will of the people who endorse legislation to make those cancerous ideologies illegal in all sectors of society. At that point, these outlawed ideologies cannot publish books & materials, sell books & materials, produce movies, or establish schools that promote the illegal ideology etc. However, until a religion or ideology is made illegal through legislation, society cannot tell a family embracing an unfavored but legal ideology that they cannot pass those personal convictions to their children. Government education funds are my funds for my family’s offspring and that is true for the most favored class as well as the most unfavored class. If a class can be proven to be a threat to national security, then that class needs to be banned from promoting its cause not just in education, but in all other venues as well." _________ It is troubling to see trajectory which Oklahoma’s AG seeks for Oklahoma. Much of the trajectory of the Oklahoma legislature is equally troubling. As we near the end of the 2025 legislative session, I plan to spend the summer reflecting on the ways in which Oklahoma’s political class thinks about family, education, and politics. With a few exceptions, the political class of the nation suffers from the way in which American’s raise the family. Family business in America has become inordinately a government affair. In 2022, 84% of American children attended the government’s school system. It is estimated that in 2025, that number has dropped to 75%, so things are looking much better! No thinking society would allow the government to raise its children unless that society believed in the superior capacity of its political class to parent its future. Only then would they therefore be willing to allow those who seek the public’s vote to also educate that public’s future voter. Only a people who trusts in the political class would be willing to allow the political class to educate future citizens how to think about the political class. Our cultural decline is directly linked to the overwhelming majority of citizens who are products of government’s secular education. The government’s schools are culturally austere because they are spiritually and scholastically austere. They provide no foundation in the transcendent realities that built Western Civilization. The government’s system of schools avoids discussion of the foundational role of the Bible and Christianity in the nation’s founding. Transcendence refers to all things in the world and the cosmos that is beyond the material. Examples of transcendent realities includes emotion, logic, reason, language, and concepts such as purpose. These are all non-material reflections of the image of God in mankind as individual people, as members of families, and society. Among these are the non-material elements that sustain the material cosmos. DNA, for example, is the non-material language making material life possible. All this is what gives Moses and Genesis such credibility. Four thousand years ago, no one knew about the logic, the programming, the language, and the coding of DNA, the non-material reality which directs the amazing biophysics of life. Yet Moses wrote without hesitation that God spoke the cosmos into existence. We are as much creatures of the transcendent “word” as we are creatures of the material. And, as our American founders spoke of so often, it is transcendence expressed in the language of Scripture, in the Christian religion, and in the divine intervention in the affairs of men and nations that breathes life into a nation. No God and no Bible in our children’s school systems? The denial of the transcendent is scholastic decay and the wormwood of which scripture speaks. Yet the legislature and others in governmental affairs have struggled with the idea of Bibles in schools and the recently approved social studies standards. Our government has trained us to see the world through a secular lens. The “Grand Old Man” of Swedish conservatism, Swedish thinker, Tage Lindbom, spoke of it in his 1983 book, The Tares and the Good Grain. He wrote of the abandonment of the Kingdom of God and the rush to the Kingdom of Man. Of our drift away from God, he stated: Since World War II we have entered the time of the great harvest of the Kingdom of Man. We now have to deal with a secularized generation for which material existence is everything and spiritual life is nothing. Secularization is a pathway leading far from the gates of paradise. The man of today glories in his growing spiritual impoverishment. The government’s system of schools are in lockstep with the politics of Marx and the psychology of Freud who have made themselves the enemy of God and the church, of the family, and of national patriotism. The loss of that which is human is the result of man’s denial of the transcendent realities that shape mankind and the nations we come together to build. You play a significant role in leading our state and our nation out of godless secularism, an ideology which leads to the end of a free people. Hope to see you this Wednesday! SEND THIS NEWSLETTER TO A FRIEND HERE. SPECIAL MEETING THURSDAY LAST MONTH'S MEETING Tuesday, April 15, 2025 REMINISCING: GOVERNOR KEATING & SECRETARY PERRY Watch the presentation here. Watch all the meeting here. ________ Dr. Carol Swain Watch the presentation here. Watch all the meeting here. _______ RUSSELL PERRY & DR. SWAIN CLOSE MEETING by ENCOURAGING YOUNG PEOPLE Watch the presentation here. Watch all the meeting here. TPUSA Watch the presentation here. Watch all the meeting here. BOB LINN Righteousness & Justice in Politics THE OKLAHOMA HISTORY CENTER Wednesday, May 21 Doors open 11:00 AM Meeting begins at 12:00 PM. I encourage each of you to support our mission. To get started, we are suggesting: The Century Club To join, mail a cancelled check to: OCPAC FOUNDATION P.O. Box 721212 Norman, OK 73070 Your $100 per month donation will help support the development of the Foundation’s work to widen our audience and outreach capabilities with quality meetings and enhanced educational video content. Our beginning financial goals will allow us to secure the initial permanent staff positions necessary to the function of a foundation with ambitions to change the world. We are in desperate need of returning our nation and our state to Biblical foundations. Thank you for your activism. OCPAC | P.O. Box 2021 | Edmond, OK 73083 US Unsubscribe | Update Profile | Constant Contact Data Notice