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 ...
In requiring that the Ten Commandments be posted in schools, what moral lessons do proponents of House Bill 1145 want students to learn? Let’s start with the last commandment as stated in Exodus: “You ...
On the kitchen wall in the house where I grew up my parents hung a photograph of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the famous Carmelite nun from France who lived only 24 years, from 1873 to 1897, and yet became ...
The Texas legislature has become the latest state to pass a bill mandating the posting of the Ten Commandments in public schools throughout the state. Similar bills have recently been signed into law ...
A federal appeals court appeared receptive to allowing Louisiana and Texas laws requiring displays of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms to take effect, signaling a potentially ...
Jack Hibbs — an anti-LGBTQ+ pastor who is also a supporter of former President Donald Trump — recently praised policies forcing the Ten Commandments into public school classrooms because the Biblical ...
BATON ROUGE, LA – In a victory for religious freedom, a federal district court issued a preliminary injunction today in Rev. Roake v. Brumley, prohibiting implementation of a Louisiana law that ...
I have three children in the Houston Independent School District. If this law is allowed to go into effect, my kids would be subjected to these scriptural displays for more than 1,200 hours over the ...
BATON ROUGE, La. — Even as a legal challenge is already underway over a new Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in classrooms, the details of how the mandate will be ...
BATON ROUGE, La. — Louisiana has become the first state to require that the Ten Commandments be displayed in every public school classroom, the latest move from a GOP-dominated Legislature pushing a ...
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