Bill to abolish department of mental health aimed to start conversation
A continuing onslaught of bills from the Oklahoma Senate and House of Representatives includes abolishing the Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse, a required license to chase storms, and ...
Can a charter school be religious? Supreme Court to decide
Can a charter school be religious? The Supreme Court decision about St. Isidore, a Catholic school in Oklahoma, could redraw ...
Idaho lawmaker wants to ‘cultivate’ morality through mandated public school Bible reading
Blaine Conzatti, the group’s president, stressed Idaho’s history with religion during Thursday’s House committee hearing, ...
South Dakota House Education Committee passes bill allowing chaplains in public schools
The House Education Committee passed a bill Monday that would authorize chaplains to serve in public schools. The bill will move to the House in the coming days.
From segregation to restoration: How the Ace Theatre plays a role in Mobile’s cultural rebirth
I only attended the Black theaters and I’m sure there were other people just like my family that wanted to go somewhere that ...
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EDITORIAL: Nutty bills shouldn't get out of committee
A quick glance at bills filed for consideration by the Oklahoma Legislature might lead the average person to suspect about 80% of those occupying seats at the statehouse have serious ...
Alabama lawmakers want Ten Commandments in schools: Will Roy Moore-era legal battle be reignited?
The move echoes a decades-old fight over religion in government, reigniting memories of Moore’s defiant stand in the early ...
If lawmakers want Ten Commandments in schools, they need to add all religions | Letters
Bill requiring the Ten Commandments in public schools is not based on religious freedom. You don't expand religious freedom by forcing it on others.
Bill would require Ten Commandments to be displayed in Alabama schools
A bill has been introduced in the Alabama House of Representatives that would require the display of the Ten Commandments in ...
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Senate committee passes bill to require Ten Commandments in schools on party lines
Lindsay, the bill is similar to a law in Louisiana — under litigation in federal court — and a proposal some legal scholars see as ...
Kentucky bills would expand religious protections, require Ten Commandments in schools
While similar legislation has passed in other states, it's uncertain whether Kentucky's measures will gain the necessary ...
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Montana lawmaker's effort to put Ten Commandments in every public school advances
Framed copies of the Ten Commandments will become fixtures in every public school classroom in Montana should a bill proposed by a Republican senator from Lindsay become law. Senate Bill 114 ...