Cecil B. DeMille’s 1957 Oscar-winning movie, “The Ten Commandments,” was a motivating factor behind the Fraternal Order of Eagles deciding to place granite Ten Commandments monuments in parks across ...

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A federal judge struck down Arkansas’s law requiring public schools to display the Ten Commandments on the basis that it establishes a state religion. My question is: What religion, exactly, do ...

Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama have passed laws requiring the posters in public schools. Several other states are considering similar measures. By Pooja Salhotra A growing number of Republican ...

When the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on Feb. 20 that a Louisiana law requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public-school classroom can go into effect for now, my heart ...

The majority opinion noted that “No child is made to recite the Commandments, believe them, or affirm their divine origin,” so the law’s requirements are essentially passive and pretty benign. But ...

For the past year or so, those of us who follow the Religion Clauses have been waiting to see what courts would do with Louisiana's Ten Commandments law in Roake v. Brumley. Now we have an ...

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments Tuesday on the constitutionality of both Texas and Louisiana’s laws requiring displays of the Ten Commandments in public schools. Both ...

Christian activists in several states have been tenaciously pushing legislation requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in every public school classroom in their state. During my more than 50 ...

COLUMBIA — S.C. House lawmakers passed a bill requiring the Ten Commandments to be posted in all South Carolina public school classrooms, including colleges and universities. The Feb. 25 vote followed ...