Politics and Religion

Oklahoma is again ground zero for a battle over publicly funded religious education as a proposed Jewish charter school looks to the courts for vindication. That's despite members of the state's Jewish community saying they weren't consulted and are "deeply concerned" about the threat to the separation of church and state.

A group of Oklahoma families, teachers and clergy filed a motion Wednesday to intervene in a lawsuit over a proposed Jewish charter school.

Oklahoma again is the testing ground for a religious charter school

The Statewide Charter School Board to argue against state Supreme Court ruling that rejected religious charter schools.

Board members said they were bound to follow the St. Isidore ruling from the Oklahoma Supreme Court, despite some doing so begrudgingly.

The coalition, including the ACLU and Oklahoma Appleseed Center, claims the theoretical school would “indoctrinate its students in Jewish religious beliefs.”

The Jewish Federation of Tulsa said it was not consulted about an application seeking to found a taxpayer-funded online Jewish charter school.

The decision from Broken Arrow City Council came after a marathon of public comments both in favor of and against the proposed Islamic center.

The Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called Drummond's investigation a "witch hunt" in a statement.

Not only is the new pope the first from the United States — he has ties to Tulsa as well.