Oklahoma's state agencies are taking laws far beyond what the legislature intended.
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Most Oklahomans are far more aware of the elected legislators we send to the capitol, every February. But our daily lives are increasingly more controlled by unelected agency board members, who use their rulemaking powers to create far more restrictions on our freedom.
Let's look at this example from the Oklahoma Dept. of Health. Their appointed board and new commissioner have unveiled yet another set of proposed rules for parents to comply with, in order to claim any delay or exemption from the ever-growing list of 'mandated' vaccines. What makes this set of laws so troubling, is that they now require parents to take classes approved by the state health dept. in order to assert religious and/or philosophical objections to these drug injections. This is essentially the same controversial bill that former Senator Ervin Yen was driven out of office for trying to pass into law, just a couple years ago. But the administrative laws go even further. If parents go through the public process of parading through county health departments and sit through hours of lecturing, shaming, and condescensions.. If they do everything right, and nothing wrong; their acknowledged exemption will no longer be a durable certificate, to extend through the child's 18th birthday. No, this change would require the parents to begin the process all over again, for each child's advancement to the 7th grade. |
While our lawmakers are very accessible to the constituents, the agencies are far less transparent and engaging with the public.
A family with 3 kids would have to successfully complete the educational requirements 6 times, to be properly warned of the consequences of their beliefs.
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