Julia Conley is a staff writer for Common Dreams.
Within minutes of a state charter school board in Oklahoma approving a plan on Monday to open what would be the first religious charter school in the United States, advocates for the nation's bedrock laws separating church and state announced plans to file a legal challenge against the proposal.
''In a country built on the principle of separation of church and state, public schools must never be allowed to become Sunday schools,' she added.The ACLU said it would join Americans United in challenging the plan. Republican Gov.
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