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The U.S. House of Representatives weighed in, voting 333–27 (with 66 voting "present") to pass a non-binding resolution, sponsored by Representatives Mike Oxley and Tony P. Hall of Ohio, that expressed support for Ohio's motto and others that refer to God. The entire Ohio delegation except for Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones voted in favor.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — The State Board of Education is set to make its final vote later this week on whether the English and Language Arts textbooks provided by Texas will feature stories from the Bible.
Unconditional election (also called sovereign election [1] or unconditional grace) is a Calvinist doctrine relating to predestination that describes the actions and motives of God prior to his creation of the world, when he predestined some people to receive salvation, the elect, and the rest he left to continue in their sins and receive the just punishment, eternal damnation, for their ...
As of 2 p.m. Friday, more than 3.7 million voters had cast ballots in-person during the early voting period that started on Oct. 17, beating the previous record of more than 3.6 million ballots ...
Abington School District v. Schempp, 374 U.S. 203 (1963), [1] was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court decided 8–1 in favor of the respondent, Edward Schempp, on behalf of his son Ellery Schempp, and declared that school-sponsored Bible reading and the recitation of the Lord's Prayer in public schools in the United States was unconstitutional.
It stated that the Bible and the Ten Commandments would be "referenced as an appropriate study of history, civilization, ethics, comparative religion, or the like"—a directive much more likely ...
The two versions are sold for $60 and $90; free or far cheaper versions of the Bible are readily accessible. [26] [27] Multiple state legislators and a state school board member criticized Walters' proposal on legal and constitutional grounds. [28]
Ohio voting-rights groups moved to dismiss their lawsuit against Ohio's unconstitutional congressional map on Tuesday, arguing that prolonging the legal wrangling over where to draw district ...