kpoindexter@tahlequahdailypress.com I was so frustrated Thursday evening that when I went to attach my photo to the online version of this column, I picked up the wrong mug in the P-Q folder. Had I not caught it, Chuck Pack and a number of other people in Tahlequah would have been nonplussed.

I was also trying to answer emails and texts from media colleagues, friends, family, a couple of pastors and even one foe who has suddenly come around to my way of thinking on a particular person. and if you assume that person is one of the two gentlemen on the presidential debate stage Thursday night, you would be wrong. I’m talking about State Superintendent of Public Instruction Ryan Walters.

I’ve tried finding synonyms to describe his behavior that would be suitable for a family newspaper, but I failed miserably at that task. In case you haven’t heard, Mr. Walters has decided there will be mandatory Bible-learnin’ in public schools.

Although I’m a person of faith, I’m sure Mr. Walters has stepped over a line here – a line so wide that, in stretching his leg to circumnavigate it, he probably split a seam in his trousers. How dare this man force his personal beliefs on the teachers and school children of this state? What does he hope to accomplish? Usher “unsaved” children into heaven, or merely impose his will, in Nazi-like fashion, on the hapless public? It sickens me that he has unilaterally decreed Judaeo-Christian scripture can be forced upon the public at the pr.