Republican U.S. Sen. Markwayne Mullin said he believes Oklahoma state schools Superintendent Ryan Walters should back off of his Bible mandate unless the religious text is taught by someone who graduated from seminary school.

Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said that letting Oklahoma public school educators teach the Bible is a “slippery slope” if the teachers “may not be believers” themselves. Mullin, who sits on the Senate committee that oversees education,

In Oklahoma, State Superintendent Ryan Walters — a far-right Christian nationalist — is demanding that all public schools in the state place Bibles in their classrooms. And the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU),