Does posting the Ten Commandments on classroom walls constitute religious instruction that is part of a state-mandated curriculum? That is one of the key questions in a debate percolating in state ...

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Over the past two years, Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas passed laws requiring posters of the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms. Predictably, critics argue that even these ...

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 ...

Some educators are pushing back in class and in court against the display of the religious code in public schools When history teacher Chris Dier sued Louisiana two years ago for mandating that the ...

(RNS) — 'I don't want my children absorbing a watered-down cultural Christianity message. In many ways, the actions of our Texas politicians feel like an infringement on my religious liberty.' ...

The Ten Commandments are posted in a Kentucky school in 2000. The Fifth Circuit upheld a Texas law requiring Ten Commandments posters in classrooms, but prior Supreme Court rulings make such mandates ...

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 ...

COMMENTARY: The history of early public schools should make Catholics wary of allowing public officials to dictate religious ...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward’s free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. As of this month, many public schools in Alabama are required to ...