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Click here to view original article citizen.digital A cross is seen on the roof of a church. REUTERS/FILE All churches and religious organisations will be required to submit financial returns every year to the government if a proposed draft law to curb religious extremism and extortion is passed. The draft…
Click here to view original article religionnews.com Workers repaint a Ten Commandments billboard off of Interstate 71 on Election Day near Chenoweth, Ohio, Nov. 7, 2023. Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom under a bill signed into…
Click here to view original article www.yahoo.com Instruction about the Bible can be legal – the question is how it’s done, and what the intent is. Pascal Deloche/Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images In the days since Oklahoma’s state superintendent, Ryan Walters, ordered school districts to teach the Bible ,…
Click here to view original article apnews.com 1 of 3 | Ryan Tucker, left and David Cortman, attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom, and Yakima Union Gospel Mission CEO Mike Johnson, right, speak to reporters outside the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Friday, July 19, 2024.…
Click here to view original article www.union-bulletin.com Joe Kennedy, former assistant coach, during football practice at Bremerton High School. Kennedy returned to his job after a Supreme Court ruling said he was allowed to pray at games — but he called it quits after just one game. A new law…
Click here to view original article apnews.com BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit Monday to block Louisiana’s new law that requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom, a measure they contend is unconstitutional. Plaintiffs in the suit include parents of…
Click here to view original article apnews.com 1 of 3 | Ryan Tucker, left and David Cortman, attorneys with Alliance Defending Freedom, and Yakima Union Gospel Mission CEO Mike Johnson, right, speak to reporters outside the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Friday, July 19, 2024.…
Click here to view original article www.theday.com Columnist Walking through Roger Williams Park in Providence, I came upon a moss-covered monolith listing the Ten Commandments. This was some time ago, but knowing the objections then being made to placing religious artifacts in public places, I thought, "This stone won’t be…
Click here to view original article www.catholicnewsagency.com U.S. Supreme Court, Washington, D.C. | Credit: Bob Korn/Shutterstock CNA Staff, Jul 9, 2024 / 13:02 pm A nascent Catholic charter school managed by the Archdiocese of Oklahoma City is appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court after the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that…
Click here to view original article www.sltrib.com In the days since Oklahoma’s state superintendent, Ryan Walters, ordered school districts to teach the Bible , he’s been defending his mandate . For example, he claimed in an interview on NewsNation that the Bible had “been removed from classrooms, and we’re saying,…
Click here to view original article theconversation.com In the days since Oklahoma’s state superintendent, Ryan Walters, ordered school districts to teach the Bible , he’s been defending his mandate . For example, he claimed in an interview on NewsNation that the Bible had “been removed from classrooms, and we’re saying,…
Click here to view original article religionnews.com Instruction about the Bible can be legal – the question is how it’s done, and what the intent is. Pascal Deloche/Godong/Universal Images Group via Getty Images (The Conversation) — In the days since Oklahoma’s state superintendent, Ryan Walters, ordered school districts to teach…
Click here to view original article www.kentucky.com OPINION AND COMMENTARY Editorials and other Opinion content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of our newsroom reporters. Op-Ed The L.A. Times laments the law as opening a front in the American cultural war that…
Click here to view original article www.joplinglobe.com Derek Snyder Nineteen years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court took up the question of the government displaying the Ten Commandments in two separate cases involving the First Amendment’s establishment clause. On June 27, 2005, in a 5-4 decision, the court ruled in Van…
Click here to view original article www.miamiherald.com OPINION AND COMMENTARY Editorials and other Opinion content offer perspectives on issues important to our community and are independent from the work of our newsroom reporters. Opinion Bigstock Under current law, the newly adopted Louisiana statute requiring the Ten Commandments be posted in…
Click here to view original article baptistnews.com The Oklahoma Supreme Court has declared unconstitutional a decision by the Statewide Virtual Charter School Board to grant a charter school license to a sectarian Catholic school. St. Isidore of Seville Catholic Virtual School would have been the nation’s first sectarian charter school…
Click here to view original article www.aclu.org The justice statue in front of the Oklahoma state flag. In a win for the separation of church and state, the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that Oklahoma’s approval of the nation’s first religious public charter school violates the state constitution and charter-school statute,…
Click here to view original article www.washingtonexaminer.com A group of left-wing civil liberties organizations filed a federal lawsuit Monday challenging a new Louisiana law requiring the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms. The American Civil Liberties Union, Americans United for Separation of Church and State, and the…
Click here to view original article nondoc.com Community journalism with context Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond shakes hands with Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Phil Sechler ahead of oral arguments before the Oklahoma Supreme Court on Tuesday, April 2, 2024. (Tres Savage) Students who signed up to attend St. Isidore of…
Click here to view original article thehayride.com This past week the Louisiana Legislature passed into law a bill that requires the displaying of the 10 Commandments in every public- school classroom in the state. Our young people are trying to survive the cultural cesspool that modern American society has become…
Click here to view original article www.nwaonline.com Requiring display in Louisiana public school classrooms called unconstitutional FILE – Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signs bills related to his education plan, Wednesday, June 19, 2024, at Our Lady of Fatima Catholic School in Lafayette, La. Civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit Monday,…
Click here to view original article www.yahoo.com Ten Commandments Lawsuit Louisiana FILE – A copy of the Ten Commandments is posted along with other historical documents in a hallway of the Georgia Capitol, Thursday, June 20, 2024, in Atlanta. Civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit Monday, June 24, challenging Louisiana’s…
Click here to view original article www.huffpost.com A group of families are working to block the new Louisiana law that mandates educators to display the Ten Commandments in every public school classroom, according to a lawsuit filed Monday. “Permanently posting the Ten Commandments in every Louisiana public-school classroom–rendering them unavoidable–…
Click here to view original article www.devdiscourse.com Louisiana has been sued over a new law mandating the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms, which plaintiffs argue violates the First Amendment. The law, part of a broader conservative push, was signed by Governor Jeff Landry. The case is…
Click here to view original article news.yahoo.com A group of Louisiana families with children in public school are suing the state in federal court to block a new state law requiring every public school classroom to display the Ten Commandments . The plaintiffs include parents from multi-faith backgrounds – including…