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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 kpel965.com Here’s When Louisiana Schools Can Expect to See Ten Commandments Posted in Classrooms Louisiana won’t take official steps to implement a law requiring the Ten Commandments be placed in all of the state’s public school classrooms until at least November as a lawsuit…
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 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 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 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…
Click here to view original article www.cbsnews.com Civil liberties groups filed a lawsuit Monday to block Louisiana’s new law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom — a measure they contend is unconstitutional. Plaintiffs in the suit include parents of Louisiana public school children, represented…
Click here to view original article thehill.com Louisiana has triggered a national controversy with a new law mandating that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all public classrooms. The law signed by the state’s GOP governor has been blasted by civil liberties groups, which argue it infringes on the rights…
Click here to view original article www.ecumenicalnews.com (Image: Courtesy Wikipedia) The U.S. state of Louisiana will now require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom, raising concerns over what was seen as a long-cherished separation of church and state. Related 80 percent of Americans say religion…
Click here to view original article www.deseret.com 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 require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public…
Click here to view original article www.devdiscourse.com Lousiana Republican Gov Jeff Landry (Photo credits: X/@JeffLandry). Image Credit: ANI All public schools in the southeastern US state of Louisiana are now required to display the Ten Commandments in every classroom after Republican Governor Jeff Landry signed the requirement into law on…
Click here to view original article telanganatoday.com Lousiana has mandated that the ten commandments be displayed in all public class rooms, a decision that sparked discussion on state vs church and whether religious text can be displayed in class rooms Lousiana: A new law makes it mandateory for all public…
Click here to view original article www.reuters.com Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry speaks during general session at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas, Texas, U.S., August 4, 2022. REUTERS/Go Nakamura/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tab June 19 (Reuters) – Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry on Wednesday signed…
Click here to view original article www.washingtonexaminer.com A judge in Missouri ruled that the state’s restrictive abortion ban was not legislators imposing their religious beliefs. The ruling rejected the case brought forth by more than a dozen Christian, Jewish, and Unitarian Universalist leaders who are in support of abortion rights.…
Click here to view original article www.cnn.com Louisiana House Bill 71 has passed the state Senate 30-8 and the House 79-16. It requires public schools in the state to display the Ten Commandments. krisanapong detraphiphat/Moment RF/Getty Images Editor’s Note: Eli Federman has written for the Wall Street Journal, USA Today,…
Click here to view original article www.yahoo.com Editor’s Note: Eli Federman has written for the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Reuters and other publications. Follow him on X @ elifederman . The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. See more opinion at CNN. This year, the Jewish holiday…
Click here to view original article local12.com (AP Photo/Jill Zeman Bleed) … TOPICS: Louisiana Ten Commandments Schools Bill Public Supreme Court Religion Education (THE CONVERSATION/AP) – Louisiana is not a stranger to controversy over religion in schools. In 2023, it joined almost 20 states that require or allow officials in…