GOOD MORNING: While the Supreme Court readies to decide the fate of the Ten Commandments — at least the constitutionality of displays of same on government land — I reached out to the birthplace of ...
The appeal arrived at the U.S. Supreme Court late in the summer of 1980, after more than two years of debate and legal action in Kentucky over a state law that required the display of the Ten ...
Some of our community members may not realize that the Bill of Rights, specifically the First Amendment, relates directly to the Ten Commandments. Freedom of religion, speech, assembly and the press ...
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signs bills related to his education plan on Wednesday, June 19, 2024, at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic School in Lafayette, La. Louisiana has become the first state to ...
Stone tablets depicting the Ten Commandments are shown outside the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on June 27, 2005, placed there during a vigil by a religious group. (OSV News photo/Jason Reed, ...
Earlier this summer, Republican Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry signed into law a requirement that all public classrooms display the Ten Commandments. Broadly similar laws are moving through ...
The Supreme Court has rebuffed these efforts before, but that was nearly a half-century ago. Today’s MAGA conservatives see a more favorable legal environment—and they might be right. In 1978, ...
As disputes rage on over religion’s place in public schools, the Ten Commandments have become a focal point. At least a dozen states have considered proposals that would require classrooms to post the ...
Note: This story has been significantly updated from its initial version. A federal judge ruled late Monday that an Arkansas law mandating that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public-school ...