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A bill that would have required the Ten Commandments to be displayed in all Oklahoma school classrooms won’t be heard during this session of the Legislature, a subcommittee chairman said Monday ...
Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters announced Thursday all public schools under his jurisdiction should be incorporating the Bible and Ten Commandments into their curriculum. “The Bible ...
Oklahoma will require schools to teach the Bible and have a copy in every classroom, the state’s top education official announced Thursday. Effective immediately, Oklahoma schools are required ...
I hope the people of Louisiana will reconsider the decision to post the Ten Commandments and Oklahoma will take back the order to teach from the text of the Bible in public schools.
The display of the Ten Commandments on public property has been controversial as a perceived violation of the Establishment Clause. The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of such monuments in 2005's Van Orden v. Perry. In 2009, Oklahoma State Representative Mike Ritze sponsored a bill to have a monument to the Ten Commandments installed at the ...
Oklahoma’s latest attempt to mandate Bibles in public schools is yet another reminder that public schools are not Sunday schools — and families should feel free to send their children to ...
Oklahoma Capitol Preservation Commission, 2015 OK 54, 373 P.3d 1032, was a landmark case by the Oklahoma Supreme Court in which the Court found the placement of a Ten Commandments Monument at the Oklahoma State Capitol was unconstitutional.
In 2009, Oklahoma State Representative Mike Ritze sponsored a bill to have a monument to the Ten Commandments installed at the capitol. His family supplied $10,000 to fund the monument, which was installed in late 2012 after support by Oklahoma governor Mary Fallin. [2] The monument since has been labeled "a lightning rod of controversy". [3]