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The Ten Commandments was a cultural phenomenon when it came out in 1956 and remains a classic to this day. When making the film, director Cecil B. DeMille knew it was going to be an undertaking of ...

A Texas statute mandating the posting of the Ten Commandments in every classroom in the state had been blocked by a federal district court and by a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals. But those ...

Stone tablets depicting the Ten Commandments are shown outside the Supreme Court in Washington June 27, 2005, placed there during a vigil by a religious group. In Louisiana, Public school classrooms ...

The polarizing court battle over Texas’ Ten Commandments display law has reignited the debate over religion in public schools. Attorney General Ken Paxton, whose office is defending the requirement, ...

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 ...

State laws requiring the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms keep losing in court, but that won’t matter if they win at the highest court in the land. Outside advocates believe supporters of ...

A federal appeals court heard arguments in a case to determine whether laws requiring public schools in Louisiana and Texas to display the Ten Commandments in classrooms are unconstitutional. Groups ...

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 ...