EDMOND, Oklahoma. – Oklahoma’s superintendent of education has sent an email to school superintendents requiring them to show students his video message of a new Department of Religious Freedom and Patriotism within the State Department of Education.

Ryan Walters, a Republican, announced the new office on Wednesday and Thursday sent the email to school superintendents across the state.

“In one of the first steps of the newly created department, we are requiring all Oklahoma schools to play the attached video to all children enrolled,” according to the email.

Districts were also asked to send the video to all parents of students.

In the video, Walters says religious freedom has been attacked and patriotism mocked “by woke teacher unions,” then prays for America’s leaders after saying students don’t need to participate in the prayer.

“In particular, I pray for President Donald Trump and his team as they continue to bring about change in the country,” Walters said.

In announcing the new department, Walters said it would “oversee the investigation of abuses of individual religious freedom or displays of patriotism.”

Two of the state’s largest districts, Edmond in suburban Oklahoma City and Bixby in suburban Tulsa, said they have no plans to show students the video.

A spokesperson for the Tulsa district, the state’s largest, did not immediately return a phone call for comment. A spokesperson for the Oklahoma City district, the second-largest, said district officials would meet to discuss the email.

The office of State Attorney General Gentner Drummond issued a statement Friday saying Walters has no authority under state law to issue such a warrant.

“This injunction is not only unenforceable, it violates parental rights, local control, and individual rights to free exercise,” the statement said.

Walters is already facing two moods over its June mandate to schools incorporate the Bible into lesson plans for students in grades 5 to 12. Several school district have previously said they will disregard the mandate.

One of the lawsuits also notes that the initial request for proposals released by the State Department of Education to purchase the Bibles appears to have been tailored to match Bibles endorsed by President-elect Donald Trump which retail for $59.99 each.

The request for proposals was later changed at the request of government procurement officials.

Associated Press reported in October that Trump’s “God Bless America” ​​Bible was printed in China, a country Trump has repeatedly accused of stealing American jobs and engaging in unfair trade practices, at a cost of less than $3 per Bible.

Walters announced earlier this week that he has purchased more than 500 Bibles to be used in state Advanced Placement classes.

A statement from the education department said the 500 Bibles are “God Bless USA Bibles,” were ordered Thursday for about $25,000 and will arrive “in the coming weeks.”

Walters, a former elementary school teacher elected in 2022, ran a platform to fight “woke ideology”, ban books from school libraries and get rid of “radical leftists” who he claims are indoctrinating children in classrooms.